Assessing Nurses´ Acceptance of a Serious Game for Emergency Medical Services

Author

Vidani, Alberto Cabas ; Chittaro, Luca ; Carchietti, Elio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Udine, Udine, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

25-26 March 2010

Firstpage

101

Lastpage

108

Abstract

Serious games can help in training medical first responders by providing emergency simulations which are always available, safer and possibly cheaper than real-world simulations. However, serious games for training emergency medical services (EMS) nurses must take into account the familiarity of the users with 3D videogames, which could be very low. In this paper, we present a prototype of the serious game we are developing for training EMS nurses in decision making and the results of a user study we have carried out with its intended users. The main purposes of the study were to assess nurses´ acceptance of this kind of application, as well as to collect suggestions and requirements from nurses.

Keywords

computer games; emergency services; medical computing; simulation; training; 3D videogames; emergency medical services; emergency simulations; nurse acceptance assessment; serious games; training; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Decision making; Game theory; Management training; Medical services; Medical simulation; Prototypes; Virtual reality; emergency medical services; evaluation; human-computer interaction; serious games; training;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES), 2010 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Braga

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6331-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6332-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VS-GAMES.2010.12

Filename

5459932