Health Points : Health Gamification

Roll on Episode 12! We’re joined by Joke Veltman, to explore their work and game development for musical and audio training. Joke is a PhD candidate at IQ Health academic center and creator of the Melody Game for Music Training for Cochlear Implant Users. A professional pianist by background, due to a genetic defect, Joke gradually lost her hearing and eventually needed a cochlear implant herself....

We're rolling on to episode 11! And joining us is Cyrus Nemati! Founder and Creative Director of Little Bat Games, Cyrus wrote, directed and programmed Vampire Therapist, a fully-voiced narrative comedy game about finding purpose when death isn’t a concern. A BAFTA-nominated game and winner of multiple other awards this year already. In this episode, we explore: The journey from political policy t...

We've made it to episode 10! We’re joined by Stephen McPeake Stephen has been working in the technology industry for 25 years, spending the last 10 focusing on 'Smart Cities' solutions and citizen engagement technology, including the ReportAll app and in the last few years, founding Civic Dollars. In this episode, we explore: Stephen's journey that started with working to solve the problems facing...

Rolling on to Episode 9! We’re joined by Cosima Prahm Cosima is Director of Centre for Clinical Research at Unfallkrankenhaus Trauma Hospital Berlin and post-doc chariotey, the Medical University of Berlin. She is a clinical neuroscientist with a background of research in plastic and reconstructive surgery relating to extremity reconstruction, prosthetic training, peripheral nerves, phantom limb p...

We’ve arrived at Episode 8! We’re joined by Luca Contato Luca founded Rising Pixel in 2012, and since then, he and his team have created over 200 games with cumulatively millions of plays per week. In this episode we explore: Rising Pixel’s learnings from developing over 200 games with millions of plays each week and your insights on the important elements when developing gamified health, educatio...

Roll On Episode 7! We’re joined by Sam Liberty Sam is a consultant in Applied Game Design and an expert in gamification design for health. Clients include: Click Therapeutics, UNICEF, the International Red Cross, and the World Bank. Sam teaches Game Design at Northeastern University in Boston, and is the former Lead Game Designer at Sidekick Health. In this episode, we explore: Games are the secre...

We've made it to Episode 6! We’re joined by Lisa Franke, CEO at Maxim VR Lisa has a background in design, marketing, entrepreneurship and social impact. She studied Design in San Francisco about a decade ago and has focused on creating technology that supports a healthier future for young people. Maxim VR was created around a powerful belief: young people deserve mental health support that speaks...

Roll on Episode 5! We’re joined by Jamie Bankhead, CEO at Konglomerate Games! Konglomerate Games is a video games company specialising in healthcare and other serious games development. They started with the project Cape Breeze, designed to encourage children with cystic fibrosis to do their daily physiotherapy routines, and in the last few years have expanded into other areas of health care and e...

Roll on Episode 4! We’re joined by Dr. Jacqui Nortje to explore her work and game development at Discovery and Vitality Health. Jacqui plunged into the world of behavioural science in 2015, where her fascination with gamification took off. What started as a spark of curiosity became a full-blown passion, leading her to pursue a PhD at Wits Business School on the Effects of goal framing in Gamifica...

We’re already at Episode 3! In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Amy Duncan to explore her work and game development at Sea Monster Impact Games Studio. Amy has a PhD in Neuropsychology and is a registered Neuropsychologist with a strong background in education and academia. She is hugely passionate about using games to drive learning and behaviour change at scale to create a positive impact in th...

Roll on episode 2!   In this episode we’re joined by Sam Knowles to explore his work with Novartis is developing games to encourage staff to think through the many facets involved in pharmaceutical drug research, development and delivery from patient and stakeholder perspectives. Sam is the Chief Data Storyteller at Insight Agents and the author of the Using Data Better trilogy of books “Narrative...

We're back! Series 3 of Health Points is here.    To kick off Series 3, we have an exceptional episode with Dr. Alexander Fanaroff, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.  In this episode, we talk through Alexander's pioneering and insightful study: The Effect of Gamification, Financial Incentives, or Both to Increase Physical Activity Among Patients at High Risk of Car...

It's the Health Points Series 2 Finale recorded at the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge Conference, December 2023.    We have a stellar lineup for our first ever in-person recording of Health Points: Jon Hymus: Managing Director of Innerva - https://www.innerva.com/   Bruce Elliott: CEO of Memory Lane Games - https://www.memorylanegames.com/ Silvia Lin: Founder of Tycho MedLink -  www.tychomedlink.co...

We're onto the penultimate Health Points episode for Series 2, and we have a cracking episode. Joining us is Pippa Boothman, CEO at Playfinity.  https://playfinity.com/ Pippa has a background studying sociology and criminology and previous roles in marketing and commercials before joining Playfinity.  In this episode, we explore: Rather than focusing on the 2% of kids and adolescents who follow th...

Welcome to Episode 14 of Series 2, and joining us is Bruce Elliot, Co-Founder and CEO of Memory Lane Games.  Before Memory Lane Games, Bruce had a twenty-year track record of building world-class, innovative eCommerce companies. Having competed with Paypal in the online payment world to bring Kodak into the blockchain world,  Bruce has led start-ups and publicly traded companies from start-up to 1...

We've landed at Episode 13 of Series 2, and joining us is Wain Choi, Chief Creative Offer at Black & White.    Wain worked with some of the largest brands on the planet, marketing tech giants health & wellness features and functionality. His previous roles were as Creative Director at Zulu Alpha Kilo Inc and Cheif Creative Offer for OgiIvy and Cheil Worldwide. It was while at Cheil Worldwi...

And we're at Episode 12 of Series 2, and joining us is Dr. Jonny Bloomfield, CEO at Oopla. Jonny is a Behavioral Health & Performance Coach specialising in stress management, sleep, exercise & nutrition. He has a background in Sports Science, with a PhD from the University of Hull, and started his career as a Fitness Coach at Ulster Rugby. moving on to a Sports Physiologist at the Sports I...

Rolling on to episode 11, and joining us today is Scott Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Perx Health, a chronic condition management service that supports users in developing better habits and a lifetime of better health.   Scott has an academic background in behavioural economics, with real-world interest in its application to motivation and positive health behaviour. He has a background in private...

We’re at episode 10, and joining us is Geoffrey Kretz, co-founder and CEO of the Kwit app, a digital pocket coach based on cognitive Behaviour therapy to support people quit smoking for good, supporting more than 3 million people to date.   He’s an entrepreneur, user experience guru, and development expert who’s previously worked for banks, biotech companies, and everything in between   In this ep...

Series 2, Episode 9 is LIVE! Joining us for episode 9 we have Dom Raban, who is co-founder of Xploro, a unique Digital Therapeutics platform that delivers health information to young patients using augmented reality, artificial intelligence and games. Xploro aims to reduce their stress and anxiety and improve children's clinical outcomes.   He is also Chair of Corporation Pop, a creative and digit...

Rolling on to episode eight we have with us Matt Omernick, who has over 20 years experience in the games industry. Matt is Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Akili Interactive, the creators of the World's first and only FDA-approved, Doctor-prescribed video game in history, EndeavorRx. Working with leading cognitive neuroscientists, they are developing the World's first truly therapeutic mob...

Series 2, Episode 7 is LIVE! Joining us is Michiel Van Eunan, who is a seasoned player in the field of gamification & game-based learning. Since running his first project (The Hunt) in 2003, he made and played over 70 different formats with thousands of people, groups, teams and companies worldwide. Ranging from serious games to escape rooms, Michiel loves to design games that use the immense...

Series 2, Episode 6 is LIVE! Joining us for episode 6 we have Amanda Philpott, who is an ex-NHS CEO and population health strategy specialist. She is the CEO and co-founder of eargym after the firsthand experience of unaddressed hearing loss in her family.   In this episode we explore the limited awareness of the importance of checking your hearing and the science of auditory training that can imp...

Series 2, Episode 5 is LIVE! We have Dr.  Jaime Garcia joining us who is a Senior Lecturer in Games Development at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) with a background in Software Engineering at Neuroscience Research Australia, primarily designing, developing and maintaining fall prevention video games and mobile apps for the Falls Balance Injury Research Centre.  On this episode we explore...

Here is episode 4 and joining us is Niklas Johannes who has worked in roles as a researcher at the Oxford Internat Internet Institute, where he was part of the research program Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age. During his PhD, he focused on the effects of always being connected via our phones on the impact on attention and cognitive control. Niklas is currently working in a fintech start-u...