Classifying Serious Games: the G/P/S model Damien Djaouti, Julian Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Jessel IRIT – University of Toulouse, France ... designers of Pulse!! We found and classified many papers regarding serious game developed for healthcare, in order to describe the state of the art of serious gaming in healthcare and to understand if a similar application paradigm could be useful for our purposes and in general for professional training in health related ambit.The expression “serious game” appeared long time before the diffusion of computer technology in everyday life. The first aim of our research is to describe the state of the art of serious games developed for health related applications. has received strong congressional support from U.S. District 27 Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi. Pulse!!

The serious game was created using a game design platform known as 3DHive by a team comprised of an undergraduate student, a faculty educator, a researcher, and a game developer. have introduced a doctor-training scenario into the game scenario, in order to provide a serious purpose for the game. Owner at FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES, is acknowledged worldwide as a thought-leader in the fast-growing Serious Game Market. as a learning and assessment tool is expected in December 2008. learner oriented approach and providing a stealth mode of teaching. A&M-Corpus Christi has hired BreakAway Ltd. of Hunt Valley, Md., a leading developer of entertainment games and training simulations, and assembled a network of subject-matter experts to produce Pulse!!

in an on-campus studio.The learning platform being tested at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md., and the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) at Bethesda, Md. In some cases it also improves learning and skills acquisition. In some health related professions, education and training have to be practiced during the entire working period and not only limited to school years. Playing a serious game must excite and involve user while ensuring the acquisition of knowledge. [In 2011 the research group of Cowan et al. has attracted the attention of the surgical community as a means of providing clinical experience and enhanced continuing education focused on reducing medical errors.For the demonstration, Johnston will be accompanied by key members of the Pulse!!

Another example of a serious game is a medical training-based game called Pulse!!. In [Free Dive is a serious game developed to entertain and distract children who often undergo painful medical procedures [Time After Time is an interactive decision aid for men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer [From the results of this review we can admit that serious games developed for healthcare are generally not widespread as we expected.

SERIOUS GAMES THAT CHALLENGE US TO PLAY AT BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE This is because such kind of training requires human and animal cadavers, human actors, or dolls to exercise practitioner skills.New technologies such as virtual reality and e-learning applications bring new possibilities not only in the field of medical training but also for other health professions and could lead to valuable improvement in learning outcomes [These technologies can be also useful for patients, in order to teach them procedures regarding their health habits.

InsuOnline was designed to improve an appropriate initiation and adjustment of insulin therapy for the treatment of diabetes mellitus.

A more conventional definition would say that a game is a context with rules among adversaries trying to win objectives. Dr. Claudia L. Johnston, Associate Vice President for Special Projects at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, will demonstrate Pulse!! This is because they do not use custom technology solutions but the same technology on which entertainment games are based and development time are generally shorter.The deployment cost of a serious game is also reduced because the supporting technology (hardware and software) is widely diffused.

research team: Navy Cmdr. We grouped them by application area.Blood management is particularly important in surgical procedures, especially in orthopaedic procedures, because in this context bleeding is common and can be fatal. ! faced the problem of advanced life support retraining courses with a serious game [For diabetes patient education the French team of Dr. Aurore Guillaume commissioned the development of three serious games.