{"id":24616,"date":"2024-10-02T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/?p=24616"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T13:39:41","slug":"b-active-serious-games-platform-to-promote-healthy-behavior-in-people-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/2024\/10\/b-active-serious-games-platform-to-promote-healthy-behavior-in-people-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"B-ACTIVE: serious games platform to promote healthy behavior in people with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Paula Jakszyn, researcher in IDIBELL and ICO\u2019s nutrition and cancer group, together with Dr. Jordi Vilar\u00f3, professor at the Blanquerna Faculty of Health Sciences (URL), have been chosen to develop a <em>serious game <\/em>through a mobile application to promote physical activity in chronic pathologies.<\/p>\n<p>In the call for the 2nd edition of &#8220;The Health Games Incubator&#8221; 2024, where 18 international projects were presented, only the 3 best classified were chosen. The project &#8220;<strong>B-ACTIVE: serious game platform to promote healthy behaviour in people with cancer&#8221; <\/strong>obtained the best score, votes and qualitative assessment.<\/p>\n<p>This call, promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya Department of Culture and funded by Next Generation, is an initiative of the Peninsula Corporate Innovation and the Serious Games Lab start up. The chosen projects will have mentoring and training to help design a health <em>serious game <\/em>prototype and the possibility of piloting it in a real environment. The prototype development will be carried out from September to December 2024, when the official prototype presentation will take place in front of potential suppliers and private sector companies that may be future commercialization partners.<\/p>\n<p>The project has a clear vocation to generate social impact by favouring all those groups of people with cancer who are candidates to improve their health through exercise and regular physical activity.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) is a biomedical research center created in 2004. It is participated by the Bellvitge University Hospital and the Viladecans Hospital of the Catalan Institute of Health, the Catalan Institute of Oncology, the University of Barcelona and the City Council of L&#8217;Hospitalet de Llobregat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>IDIBELL is a member of the Campus of International Excellence of the University of Barcelona HUBc and is part of the CERCA institution of the Generalitat de Catalunya. In 2009 it became one of the first five Spanish research centers accredited as a health research institute by the Carlos III Health Institute. In addition, it is part of the &#8220;HR Excellence in Research&#8221; program of the European Union and is a member of EATRIS and REGIC. Since 2018, IDIBELL has been an Accredited Center of the AECC Scientific Foundation (FCAECC).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Jakszyn (IDIBELL &#038; ICO) and Dr. Jordi Vilar\u00f3 (URL) team has been chosen to develop a serious game that promotes physical activity in patients with chronic pathologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,261,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancer","category-epidemiology-public-health-cancer-prevention-and-palliative-care-program","category-nutrition-and-cancer"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-12-25 17:20:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24618,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24616\/revisions\/24618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}