Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Serious Games for Health

The eight papers in this special section focus on serious game computer applications for the health care field. During this period, we witnessed the creation of several conferences, providing a forum to discuss and share knowledge, experiences, and scientific and technical results, related to state-of-the-art solutions and technologies on serious games and applications for health and healthcare. The growth of computational capacity, development of new forms of interaction with the user (patient), and theoretical foundations produced by the scientific community over the past few years have now made it possible and viable to develop solutions, based on serious games, to face real problems. The possibility to create scenarios for medical training and simulation, the use of video games in rehabilitation procedures in an extra hospital environment, and the engagement provided by forms of teaching based on video games are just some examples of how this technology can be used. This special issue aims to highlight some of the high-quality research produced in the field of serious games applied to health.