Less than 100 days till 2010
September 26, 2009 4:33 pm QuestThe count-down to the start of term has been occupying a lot of my time recently. However, in preparing my presentation for the Interactive Fitness and ExerGame Network seminar at Leisure Industry Week 2009 in Birmingham, UK, I realized that there were less than 100 days to go till the year 2010! I then began to reflect on how far things had progressed in the first decade of the 21st century.
Many things that last century were science fiction had now become reality. Yet, perhaps more compelling was the view that most of our thinking on health, exercise, physical activity and sport was still rooted in the last century. I chose for the title of my presentation “Gaming4 Life: Eat Longer, Move Well & Live More” as a play on words of the recent health promotion campaign in the UK called “Change for Life“.
The presentation takes a critical look at the context of physical activity in sport in the digital games eras and develops a new way of thinking about the role of games and game play in promoting well-being and health.