Serious games for health: three steps forwards

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Abstract

Serious games are educational tools which are more and more used in patient and health professional education. In this article, we discuss three main points that developers and educators need to address during the development of a serious game for health. We first explain how to develop motivating serious games by finding a point where the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations of end users can converge. Then, we propose to identify the features of serious games which enhance their learning effectiveness on the basis of a framework derived from cognitive science and called “the four pillars of learning.” Finally, we discuss issues and solutions related to the evaluation of serious games.

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David Drummond: +0033176530100 , david.drummond@ilumens.org

Alice Hadchouel: alice.hadchouel-duverge@aphp.fr

Antoine Tesnière: antoine.tesniere@ilumens.org

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Adv Simul (Lond)

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Adv Simul (Lond)

Title: Advances in Simulation

Publisher: BioMed Central (London )

ISSN (Electronic): 2059-0628

Publication date (Electronic): 4 February 2017

Publication date PMC-release: 4 February 2017

Publication date Collection: 2017

Volume: 2

Electronic Location Identifier: 3

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[1 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2188 0914, GRID grid.10992.33, Ilumens Simulation Department, , Paris Descartes University, ; 45 rue des Saint Pères, 75006 Paris, France

[2 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2175 4109, GRID grid.50550.35, Pediatric Pulmonology, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, , Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, ; 149 rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France

[3 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2175 4109, GRID grid.50550.35, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Cochin Hospital, , Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, ; 27, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France

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Publisher ID: 36

DOI: 10.1186/s41077-017-0036-3

PMC ID: 5806236

PubMed ID: 29450004

SO-VID: 3cde0cb0-bbaa-49b2-aae6-686cc19808ed

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Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

History

Date received : 6 September 2016

Date accepted : 11 January 2017

Funding

Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002738, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris;

Award ID: Année médaille

Award Recipient : David Drummond

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Keywords: video game,health education,patient education,medical education

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Keywords: video game, health education, patient education, medical education

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