Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Health on Saturday 10th March

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• All Day Event - The iTriage "Power-Up" Lounge

  Need to recharge? iPhone or Tablet going dead? Feet hurting? Come relax in the iTriage Power-Up Lounge. Plug in your electronics at the charge stations and grab a healthy snack to refuel! And while you're recharging on the comfy couches, learn about the #1 downloaded healthcare app that allows you to take charge of your health!

  • Health
  • Lounge

  At 9:00am to 6:00pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Room 301, AT&T Conference Center

• Crowdsourcing Cancer Support: A Love Story

  by David Creekmore and Trisha Creekmore

  Cancer care and support is changing dramatically as blogging, social media, facebook and mmo gaming become mass media. Trisha Creekmore, aka Tinkerhell, a mother, wife and digital denizen since 1995, has had breast cancer twice. The first diagnosis in 2004 was hard and lonely. The second diagnosis in 2010 was harder, but not lonely. Trisha and her husband David found the content on health Web sites unhelpful and online disease-specific support groups depressing. So they made up their own plan, harnessing the power of facebook, the mmo Warhammer and thousands of strangers to create Cancerpalooza. David blogged every week. His plan was to keep family and friends informed, but the blog and the community it created became much more than the sum of their parts, inspiring and bringing value to complete strangers, the entire mmorpg community and even rockstars like Mike Patton and Ozzy Osbourne. But not in an annoying social-media-positive-sharing way. More in a FML-WTF-LOL way. This Future of Health Track is sponsored by Aetna.

  • Cancer
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Fighting Cancer
  • Health

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Classroom 204, AT&T Conference Center

• Feel Rich: Health is the New Wealth

  by Quincy Jones III, Shawn Ullman, Crystal Wall, Paul Wall and Slim Thug

  Forty-time platinum, multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning producer and digital guru Quincy Jones III (QD3) has turned his attention to a new creative movement: the creation of a health and fitness culture born from the urban and hip-hop community's respect for music, movement and entertainment.Feel Rich is health on your terms, fitness in your own style, and food choices that make sense on the streets where you live. The company promotes health by showing how it will make your game better, Your concerts livelier, Your grades better, Your hustle stronger. In a short few months the company has grown into a powerful movement with community and artists support. The company's mission statement is: To make every hood in the world healthyThis panel will discuss and explore the cornerstone of this new culture, promoting fitness and healthy living as the way to take your life to the next level.

  • Community
  • creative
  • Culture
  • Fitness
  • Health

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Room 5ABC, Austin Convention Center

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• Fit Together: How Fitness Goes High-Tech + Social

  by Bob Goodman, Jason Jacobs, Maria Ly, Kevin McCoy and Kevin McCoy

  Tools like Nike Plus and FitBit, apps like Lose It, Run Keeper, and Skimble, and communities like Daily Burn and Spark People are helping to change everyday workouts from a solitary to a social pursuit. The magic of these devices, tools, and communities enables people to track their fitness, undertake fitness programs, track and share their progress overtime, and learn from peers and professionals. This panel will look at where it’s all headed and what it means for everyday interactive experiences. Conversation will include the provocative question: can the Internet make you fit?

  • Fitness
  • Health
  • Interaction Design
  • Mobile
  • Social Media
  • Startups
  • User Experience

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Capital Ballroom, Omni Downtown

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• Rethinking Gaming Addiction in Psychotherapy

  by Mike Langlois

  Ninety-seven percent of all adolescents in the US play video games, & more than half of the adults in this country play video games regardless of their race or income. The military has discovered that video games decrease symptoms of PTSD in veterans, & with the advent of the iPhone, mobile technology is making social media more prevalent than ever. Despite these numbers, psychotherapists & other healthcare providers are reluctant & uncertain how or when to integrate technology into their work. When gaming or technology is mentioned at all, it is only as an addiction or liability, never as a powerful innovation. This is in part due to an age-old mistrust & disdain of technology which has its roots in issues of class & psychology. But despite this, psychotherapy has passed the point where learning about technology is negotiable. This workshop aims to critique the idea of gaming as addiction & further, discuss how understanding and using video games may improve therapeutic outcomes.

  • addictions
  • Gaming
  • Health
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • psychotherapy
  • Video Games

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Room 6AB, Austin Convention Center

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