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How Game Ideas Can Help Employees Manage Their Own Health

Hear Leighton describe how games are shaping the future of work in this talk at the Conference Board’s 2011 Employee Health Care Conference. This is also a chance to hear our thinking about using game ideas to drive employee engagement for managing their own health.  The talk draws on experience dating back to a successful computer game Leighton published in 1984, as well as current work with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Games Research project.

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The authors

  • Byron is the Paul C. Edwards Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, and Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director of the H-STAR Institute and Media X.
  • J. Leighton Read, M.D., is a General Partner in four Alloy Ventures funds from 2001-2007 and a successful entrepreneur and CEO.

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