AARP Online Community and Discussion Forums - Research on Over 50 Games

CeliaP709353 · ‎02-26-2025

Greetings fellow AARP gamers! I wanted to introduce myself. I'm Dr. Celia Pearce from Northeastern University's Games for Life initiative, which includes AARP as one of its partners. Our goal is to learn as much as we can about the play patterns, preferences and needs of gamers over 50 and provide tools and design guidelines to make better games for you! As an over-50 gamer myself, I'm excited to be able to apply my experience both a game designer and a researcher to improving your gaming opportunities and experiences.

I'm also excited to share some of our current research, such as these two articles on the AARP Game Center page by my colleagues Bob De Schutter and Leanne Chukowskie on the benefits of gaming for older adults and some of the stigmas that older adults face when playing videogames. More to come!

We're launching a new survey designed to find out more about how you play and how you use adaptive tools to improve your gaming experience. I'll be posting the link here! We want to hear from you so let us know what you think!

Celia Pearce

CeliaP709353 · ‎05-20-2025

Northeastern University Games for Life Project is conducting a survey to find out your game playing preferences and habits so we can develop adaptive tools to improve your gaming experience!

Learn more and take the survey here: https://gamesforlife.sites.northeastern.edu/qualtrics-link/

Celia Pearce

Winter2025VA · ‎05-20-2025

[Tuesday 5/20/25]

Hi AARP Expert Celia @CeliaP709353 , is AARP maybe "rewarding" folks who take this survey? 😉

Times are a challenge this year 2025 and Award Points or Giftcards would help us out.

Just my thoughts.

Take care,

Nicole 👵

➡️[*** Celia wrote on Tuesday 5/20/25:

Northeastern University Games for Life Project is conducting a survey to find out your game playing preferences and habits so we can develop adaptive tools to improve your gaming experience!

Learn more and take the survey here: https://gamesforlife.sites.northeastern.edu/qualtrics-link/
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