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Abstract(s)
The need for contact, sharing and socializing is
part of human nature, so that the community's role is vital to
the survival of the species. With the development of
Information and Communication Technologies and their
influence on society and everyday life, led the search for new
ways to build relationships and create communities among
people, creating virtual communities; turn social networks
emerge as new forms of association that respond to more
complex understanding of human interaction in a way that
the wider community; these to promote your main goal,
more integrated into the games as a tool of socialization. The
impact of current games at various levels, as the social and
economic development, and its applicability in various fields,
it becomes important to analyze the contribution of the
community. It is intended in this article, a description of the
factors that motivate this research to a later stage to develop
the proposed objectives: to analyze the new social reality and
develop a model that allows adapting the health games to
social games in order to foster the creation / sustainability of
communities based on social networks, aiming to raise
awareness of health issues, increasing knowledge and
sharing of experiences of members of communities.
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Keywords
Communities Social networks Health games
Citation
Pinho, Anabela; Paredes, Hugo; Zagalo, Nelson (2011). An approach about health games to social network environment. In 1st International Conference Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH). Braga. ISBN 978-146730433-7