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The Positive Impact of Video Games on Your Health and Wellbeing

Discover how video games can benefit you physically and mentally. Learn from experts and studies showing improved vision, cognitive abilities, physical fitness, and mental health through playing video games. Explore the positive effects on weight loss, job satisfaction, and productivity. Challenge misconceptions and embrace the benefits of gaming for overall wellbeing.

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The Positive Impact of Video Games on Your Health and Wellbeing

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  1. Reputed surgeon Dr. James Clarence Rosser Jr.

  2. Plays Super Monkey Ball • Co-authored study: • Surgeons at least 3 hours/week 27% faster and made 37% fewer mistakes in surgeries

  3. I am going to tell you how video games are good for you

  4. I’m an expert • I’ve been gaming since I was 4 • Several gaming systems • Hundreds of games • Two gaming websites

  5. Not just a waste of time • Not only are games fun, but… • Games can positively impact your life

  6. Video games can improve your physical wellbeing • Video games improve vision and visuospatial abilities • Shawn Green and Daphne Bavelier of the National Institute of Health • Gamers vs. non-gamers

  7. Video games can improve your physical wellbeing • Subjects matched shapes appearing in a series of circles with ones displayed at the side of screen • Gamers completed task faster

  8. Video games can improve your physical wellbeing • Subjects asked to identify flashed symbol • Gamers more accurate and faster • Applies in real world – navigating traffic

  9. Video games can improve your physical wellbeing • Video games cause weight loss • My dad lost 2 pounds a week playing Wii Tennis • Habit of eating when bored, forget

  10. Video games can improve your physical wellbeing • Dr. Unnithan et al. (2006): • DDR met heart-rate standards for developing and maintaining cardiovascular fitness

  11. Video games can improve your physical wellbeing • West Virginia putting DDR in all 765 schools to battle obesity

  12. Video games can improve your mental wellbeing • Video games can treat mental disorders • Psychologist Michael Posner of Cornell University studied effect of games on ADD

  13. Video games can improve your mental wellbeing • Those who played games showed significant improvement • I have ADD and I find that because gaming requires focus I develop this ability

  14. Video games can improve your mental wellbeing • Video games improve job satisfaction and productivity • Professor Jeffrey Goldstein et al. (2003) studied game playing at insurance firm • Some forced to play games at work, other forced not to

  15. Video games can improve your mental wellbeing • Gamers felt better about their jobs and worked more productively • I play video games as break • Relieve stress • Improve morale • Motivate harder work

  16. Conclusion • Criticized, but little evidence of harm • Benefits demonstrated

  17. They’re fun • Can be anyone • Holy Paladin • Futuristic cyborg marine • Can do anything • Build civilizations • Save the universe • Destroy it

  18. Conclusion • Beneficial physically and mentally and provide countless hours of entertainment • Throw out misconceptions about games and give consideration and even praise they deserve

  19. Bibliography • BBC News, March 2003. “Video Games ‘Good For You’” (viewed April 29, 2008) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2943280.stm • BBC News, November 2003. “Games at Work May be Good for You” (viewed April 29, 2008) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3247595.stm • Ben Silverman, Yahoo.com, April 2007. “Games are Good for You” (viewed April 29, 2008) http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/games-are-good-for-you/513460 • Michael Marriot, The New York Times, February 2005. “We Have to Operate, But Let’s Play First” (viewed April 29, 2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/technology/circuits/24docs.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=2a6a39a7c52f5e90&ex=1177473600&oref=slogin • Unnithan, V. B., Houser, W., & Fernall, B (2000). “Evaluation of the energy cost of playing a dance simulation video game in overweight and non-overweight children and adolescents.” International Journal of Sports Medication, 27(10), 804-9.

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