The 2011 Games for Health conference will be held on May 18-19 in Boston, MA and includes simultaneous tracks, a poster session, exhibits, and special topic rooms. Pre-conference events on mobile games, games accessibility, and game-based medical learning, modeling, and simulation will take part on May 17.  

The main Games for Health Conference features five tracks of simultaneously presented content. Two of the tracks each day are open content. Three tracks each day are dedicated to specific domains and are lead by recognized community leaders in those fields.

• Active & Exergaming Track
  Content that helps improve the utilization of videogames and videogame technologies to get people moving and exercising to better their personal health.
• Cognitive & Emotional Health with Games Track
  Activities involving the contribution games are making toward possible improvements and treatments related to cognitive and emotional health including TBI, cognitive performance, stress, mental illness, resilience, and emotional health.
• Sensorimotor Rehab Track
  Video games and their application to the physical medicine community.  Clinicians (PT, OT, Speech), game industry professionals, engineers and researchers who are using/modifying games for rehabilitation.
• Social Gaming & Virtual Worlds Track
  Projects and research that helps us better unlock synchronous, and asynchronous social systems and virtual worlds to create new forms of games for health.
• Nutrition and Games Track
  Explore the role videogames are playing in nutrition- how food is depicted in games, snacking and games, food related advergaming, cooking games, and more.

To register for the conference, learn more, or submit a proposal to present, visit the conference webpage.