SAGE: Games for Health Workshop

Faculty of Computer Science
GINIus Demo Room, 4th Floor
Dalhousie University

July 20-21, 2005

SAGE is a multi-year multi-university project to explore the role of games in learning especially related to health issues. At Dalhousie we have been working on a generic platform to support a variety of game types for children with chronic conditions.

Wednesday, July 20

9-10:00 SAGE Overview - Carolyn Watters and Michael Power (TeleUniversity de Quebec)

10:00-10:30 break

10:30-12 Games for Behavior Modeling & Role Playing
Behavioral Change Model : Mike Shepherd & Hadi Khazurri
Role Playing for Parents - Scenario ; Tony Cox & Sean Smith ; Sageev Oore and Evon

12-1 lunch

1:00-2:30 Invited Speaker : Games for Feeling States – Roberta Woodgate, (Univ. of Manitoba, School Nursing and Dept of Pediatrics)

Thursday, July 21

10-11 SAGE project prototypes at Dalhousie University (M. Kellar, A.Abouzied, F.Liu, H.Kharazi, S.Singh)

11-11:30 Engaging Math Games (Richard Nowakowski) Sample Games

11:30-12:30 Invited Speaker: Visualization of Structured Information Based on Theories of Perception - Pourang Irani (Univ. of Manitoba, Dept CS)

12:30-1 Lunch

1-4 Design outline and work plan.