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Speaking, interviews,& Publications

As a speaker, and panelist for conferences, workshops, and events, Michael has shared his insights on a range of topics  - including entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, design in healthcare, mHealth, diabetes, behavioural economics, patient engagement, startups, gamification, eHealth, and business.  

Keynote speeches & interviews

Watch Michael’s passionate keynote speeches and interviews at events including TEDx, the Games4Health challenge, mHealth summit and more.

Tedx Talk: What videogames taught me about health care

The ability to play is the most profoundly valuable property of the human brain, and can be used to help solve what may possibly be the greatest problem humanity has ever faced.

Keynote address at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah by Michael Fergusson for the Games4Health Challenge. He addressed how to create effective serious games that address health needs.

As a well-known patient engagement expert, Michael has been published across the globe.

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Select Publications

“Moving Beyond the Pill” March 2018. PharmaVOICE (c) PharmaLinx LLC.

Using gamification to encourage blood glucose testing in children with type 1 diabetes March 2015. Diabetic Medicine.

Digital games for type 1 and type 2 diabetes: underpinning theory with three illustrative examples. March 2015. JMIR Serious Games.

Computers in human behavior: online social networks for health behaviour change: designing to increase socialization. December 2014. Computers in Human Behaviour 41: 444-453.

Designing Digital Tools for Patient Engagement. What games and play can teach us (2015). Ayogo Health Inc.

"Designing social media for change” (2013). Paper presented to the CHI'13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

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