Over the past decade, the healthcare industry has adopted games as a powerful tool for promoting personal health and wellness. Utilizing principles of gamification to engage patients with positive reinforcement, these games promote stronger attention to clinical and self-care guidelines, and offer exciting possibilities for primary prevention. Targeting an audience of academics, researchers, practitioners, healthcare professionals, and even patients, the Handbook of Research on Holistic Perspectives in Gamification for Clinical Practices reviews current studies and empirical evidence, highlights critical principles of gamification, and fosters the increasing application of games at the practical, clinical level.
Daniel Novák graduated from the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague in 2000 and obtained a Ph.D. degree from CTU in 2004. He is a senior researcher at the Department of Cybernetics, CTU, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He publishes contributions in the field of ICT healthcare and ambient assisted living systems, neuroscience and pattern recognition. He reads lectures on Artificial Intelligence, Biometrics and Neuroinformatics. He was awarded a postdoc Marie Curies funding by Philips, Germany, a NATO Science fellowship by Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain and a postdoc research grant at Groupe ESIEE, Paris, France. He participated in numerous European, as well as local research projects. He organizes international conferences such as MobileMed Conference on Mobile and Information Technologies in Medicine.
Bengisu Tulu is an Associate Professor in the Robert A. Foisie School of Business at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA, USA. She is one of the founding members of the Healthcare Delivery Institute at WPI. She received her Ph.D. in Management of Information Systems and Technology from Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Tulus research interests include development and implementation of Health Information Technologies (HIT). She studies the implications of HIT implementations on healthcare organizations and consumers. Dr. Tulus research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality and the Veterans Affairs. Her publications have appeared in leading journals such as Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Journal of the AIS, Telemedicine and e-health Journal, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and, IEEE Network.
Hĺvar Brendryen received his MS from the Norwegian university of science and technology in 2001.
