The IW’15 – Games4All Meeting will be held the next 11th june 2015, during the 5th International Workshop on Higher Education at the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) -9th to 12th june 2015-.

One of the key aspects of the Mobile revolution is the increasing number of opportunities for applying digital technologies to most human activities. Mobile device games and apps development has given rise to successful applications in fields as diverse as education, healthcare, advertising, communication and business apart from the pure entertainment. This has led to the emergence of combined fields such as eHealth, edutainment, advergaming and so on, offering users exciting new kinds of social interaction. The aim of this meeting is to share all the experience developped in this area at UVic-UCC (Higher Professional Studies -Teknos-, Bachelor Degree in Multimedia, Msc Degree in Mobile Applications and Games and PhD in Experimental Sciences and Technology) with our pears of other institutions and enterprises, in order to progress jointly to higher challenges and increase our mutual knowledge, emphasizing the need of transversal and unorthodox view to build meaningful and relevant solutions.

IW’15 – Games4All meeting organization is pleased to invite you to join us on 11th june at the UVic-UCC (Free registration)

Program: #G4ALLUST #IWHEUVIC

9:00 Welcome:
Ramon Reig-Bolaño, PhD. @ramonreig, Head of Engineering UST at UVic-UCC and Marc de San Pedro @desanpedro, coordinator of the Chair in ICT and Healthcare, UVic-UCC
9:10 Opening:
“Gamification: using the power of games to give a positive impact”, Simon McCallum, PhD. @SimonMcCallum, Gjøvik University College, Norway
9:25 Keynote:
“Games and Gamification to Enhance Engagement in Healthcare”, Pamela M. Kato, PhD. @pamkato, Director of research from SGI –Serious Games Institute-, Coventry University, United Kingdom
9:45 Host Conference:
“The mHealth.cat Mobility Plan”, Marc de San Pedro, @desanpedro, coordinator of the Chair in ICT and Healthcare, UVic-UCC
10:00 R&D Cases Study, moderated by Ramon Reig-Bolaño, PhD. @ramonreig:
“Games for Learning”, Josep M Serra Grabulosa, PhD., Laboratory of Neuropsychology UB
“Europlay Project”, Ruthy Acosta-Rojas, PhD., Director-Growth in Health Research S.L
Associate Researcher Hospital Sant Joan de Déu & Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona UB
“Epidemia, the game”, Victor Vallès, Chair of AIDS, IrsiCaixa, UVic-UCC
“Active-u: playing to stimulate your brain”, Maite Garolera , PhD. @maitegarolera, Brain, Cognition and Behavior: Clinical Research, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa
Tobbstop: a smoking cessation game”, Gemma Flores, PhD., Institut d’Investigació en Atenció Primària (IDIAP) Jordi Gol
10:45 coffee break and posters presentations
11:30 Expert panel, case studies, moderated by Teresa Bau @tbau_uoc:
“NoaH: neonatologist at home”, Albert Pla PhD., postdoctoral UdG
“Virtual reality for Health applications”, Carles Blanes, @OSMbiomedical, Gamification and mHealth Manager, Other Side Mirror (OSM)
“Patients promoting Apps, a case of breast cancer: Xemio App“, Imma Grau, @inma_grau, comunication at Clinic Hospital @gtiet, vocal at Grup Agata @agataenmarxa,  chair ISYS Foundation @fundacionisys
Doctoralia App“, Frederic Llordachs, @fllordachs, VP Marketing and Co-Founder of Doctoralia. Co-organizer of Health2.0 BCN Chapter.
Social Diabetes App“, Victor Bautista, @0x564242, Founder and CEO of Social Diabetes
“Psycooncology, eHealth and Gamification” Tania Estapé, PhD., Head of Psycooncology FEFOC Foundation
“Games for healthcare, what’s next?”, Anna Sort @lostnurse, CEO and Founder Playbenefit, BCN
13:00 Closing panel:
moderated by Teresa Bau @tbau_uoc, Free-lance journalist from Barcelona. Mobile Health Global Editor (@mHealthGlobal) and Communication in Patient Power Europe (@patientpower_es & @patienpowereu)
13:30 networking and lunch

patients included.001This is a patients included conference organized jointly by the research Group in Digital and Signal Processing, the Department of Digital and Information Technologies of the University of Science and Technology @UVic_UST and the Chair in ICT and Healthcare, Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CESS), Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC) @ticsalut

Venue:

Merce Torrents Conference Room

Campus Miramarges University of Vic- Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC)

C/ Sagrada Familia, 7
08500, Vic (Barcelona, Catalonia, Europe)

Free acces to the Meeting with registration

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Registration link

http://mon.uvic.cat/international-workshop/registration/