Serious Games forProfessional Skills

Joyce Bierbooms & Milou Feijt28 September 2020

Two key concerns – two research tracks

• Supporting empathic interaction• Need for skill enhancement

Aim: developing a game-based training environment, where mental healthcare

professionals can enhance their skills in using eHealth tools.

Main game properties (based on user requirements analysis)

• Support well-defined learning goals

• Right balance between educational and playful content

• Provide the experience of added value eMental Health

• Joint activity that is interactive and challenging, but without competition

Track 1 – Enhancing professionals’ skills in using eHealth tools

Als je deze requirements leest, aan wat voor

soort game denk je dan?

Intermezzo

• What is an escape room?

• Increasingly used for purposes of learning or acquiring skills.

• Integration of educational content and gaining hands-on experience and

engagement.

• Challenging but without direct competition.

• Possibility to design different storylines that reflect real therapeutic

settings.

Escape Room Solution

Design proces

Trailer

• Over welke tools zou jij wel wat meer te weten willen komen in

een Escape Room?

• Met wie zou jij de Escape Room willen spelen?

• Hoe overtuigen we je om de Escape Room te gaan spelen?

Intermezzo

• Aim: explore opportunities for social

interaction technologies to overcome the

perceived shortcomings and/or even

enhance the empathic interaction

• Current direction: biofeedback

Track 2 – Enhancing empathic interactions

• Ben je bekend met biofeedback?

• Wie heeft dit al wel eens in behandeling geprobeerd?

• Op welke manier zou je biofeedback gebruiken in de

behandeling?

Intermezzo

• Social biofeedback:

using physiological

measurements as

communication cues in

(remote) social interactions

Enhancing empathic interactions

Enhancing empathic interactions

Nu je dit voorbeeld gezien hebt:

• Zou je dit willen proberen in de praktijk?

• In welke situaties zou deze toepassing vooral van meerwaarde

zijn?

Intermezzo

Track 1:

• Field study on small scale to investigate feasibility and requirements for implementation and upscaling

• 4 workshops including a focus group and questionnaire

• Explore possibilities for further development

Track 2:

• Further development of prototype and field study with practitioners to investigate added value in

practice

• Lab experiments to increase our understanding of the interpretation of biosignals and the experience of

biosignal sharing

Next steps

End goal: Expanding therapists’ toolbox

Q&A

For more information, please contact:

• Joyce Bierbooms: j.j.p.a.bierbooms@uvt.nl (Track 1)

• Milou Feijt: m.a.feijt@tue.nl (Track 2)

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