Digital Games for Health Behavior Change

Digital interactive games deliver powerful and engaging experiences that can motivate and support behavior change. When well designed, they can influence players’ attitudes, emotions, self-concepts, self-confidence, social interactions, risk perceptions, knowledge, and development and rehearsal of skills, all of which can contribute to changes in behavior (see Ritterfeld, Cody, & Vorderer, 2009; Vorderer & Bryant, 2006).