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Behavior Change Games

Behavior Change Games is a genre of serious games designed with systematic game mechanics and behavioral interventions to influence users' attitudes, habits, or actions in real-world contexts, distinguished by their primary purpose of fostering measurable and sustained behavioral modification.

167

Publications

9.6K

Citations

566

Authors

257

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

54

Variants

Serious Games For Behavior Change

Parents

Publications

167

A meta-analysis of serious digital games for healthy lifestyle promotion

Ann DeSmet, Dimitri Van Ryckeghem, Sofie Compernolle et al. · Preventive Medicine · 2014 · 438 citations · Full text

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Serious Video Games for Health: How Behavioral Science Guided the Development of a Serious Video Game

Debbe Thompson, Tom Baranowski, Richard Buday et al. · Simulation & Gaming · 2008 · 375 citations · Full text

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Modeling the efficacy of persuasive strategies for different gamer types in serious games for health

Rita Orji, Julita Vassileva, Regan L. Mandryk · User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction · 2014 · 328 citations

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Lost in Translation

Eva Boxenbaum · American Behavioral Scientist · 2006 · 278 citations

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Towards Personality-driven Persuasive Health Games and Gamified Systems

Rita Orji, Lennart E. Nacke, Chrysanne Di Marco · 2017 · 273 citations

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Authors

566

  1. RB
    Richard Buday

    Archimage (United States), United States

    9 publications · 1.2K citations

    9

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  2. TB
    Tom Baranowski

    Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, United States

    9 publications · 1.6K citations

    9

    h-index

  3. DT
    Debbe Thompson

    Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, United States

    9 publications · 1.6K citations

    9

    h-index

  4. RO
    Rita Orji

    Dalhousie University, Canada

    9 publications · 1.2K citations

    9

    h-index

  5. RL
    Regan L. Mandryk

    University of Saskatchewan, Canada

    7 publications · 913 citations

    7

    h-index

1–5 of 566

Institutions

257

  1. Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine

    Houston, United States

    9 h-index

    27 publications

    5K citations

  2. Archimage (United States)

    Houston, United States

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. Dalhousie University

    Halifax, Canada

    6 h-index

    18 publications

    822 citations

  4. University of Saskatchewan

    Saskatoon, Canada

    6 h-index

    20 publications

    2.8K citations

  5. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    650 citations

  6. Baylor College of Medicine

    Houston, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    1.2K citations

  7. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    782 citations

  8. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    401 citations

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Venues

  1. Games for Health Journal

    13 publications · 799 citations

    11

    h-index

  2. JMIR Serious Games

    8 publications · 388 citations

    8

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  3. Journal of Medical Internet Research

    5 publications · 239 citations

    5

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  4. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

    JABA · 5 publications · 396 citations

    5

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  5. PubMed

    Repository · 4 publications · 243 citations

    4

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