A Serious Game for Training Patient-Centered Medical Interviews

Author

Ziebarth, Sabrina ; Kizina, Anna ; Hoppe, H. Ulrich ; Dini, Luigi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Cognitive Sci., Univ. of Duisburg Essen, Duisburg, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

7-10 July 2014

Firstpage

213

Lastpage

217

Abstract

This paper presents a web based serious game for medical students, which supports the training of patient-centered medical interviews. Phases of immersion (role playing) and reflection are differentiated to facilitate change of perspectives that is considered to be conducive for learning. Reflection is supported by the recording of the role play, which is enhanced by automated analysis results regarding the communication behavior of the player based on models of doctor-patient communication as well as general communication. The playability of this game was evaluated in a study with medical students.

Keywords

Internet; biomedical education; computer based training; medical computing; serious games (computing); Web based serious game; doctor-patient communication model; game playability; general communication; immersion phase; medical students; patient-centered medical interview training; player communication behavior; reflection; role playing; Games; Interviews; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Multi-agent systems; Reflection; Training; Serious game; medical interviews; reflection support; role play;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2014 IEEE 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2014.69

Filename

6901440