International Educated Nurse-Centered Virtual Serious Game

Silva, Celina Da; Torres, Andrei; Kapralos, Bill; Peisachovich, Eva; Anyinam, Charles; Coffey, Sue; Graham, Leslie; Dubrowski, Adam

doi:10.1109/iisa56318.2022.9904347

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“…The SUS was applied over email to 14 participants (n = 14), of which 11 were nursing students and 3 were nursing faculty. Again, as in the previous study, the SUS score obtained was approximately 85, or in the percentile range of 86-88 [18], which implies that we have achieved above-average usability.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…A needs analysis and a needs assessment survey were performed in 2021 to guide the development of the scenario for this study case [18]. The resulting scenario includes an elderly male patient with dementia and a history of depression who was admitted to a long-term care facility.…”

Section: Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Currently, adding or modifying 3D environments and characters needs to be implemented by game developers, but empowering educators and content creators to independently handle this is in our plans for future work. In this paper, we introduce and detail the Moirai and provide an overview of two case studies of serious games [17,18].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Serious games, that is, games whose primary purpose is education and training, are gaining widespread popularity in higher education contexts and have been associated with increased learner memory retention, engagement, and motivation even among learners with special needs. Despite these benefits, serious games have fixed scenarios that cannot be easily modified, leading to predictable and dull experiences that can reduce user engagement. Therefore, there is a demand for tools that allow educators to create new modifications and customize serious game scenarios, and avoid the fixed-scenario problem and a one-size-fits-all approach. Here, we present and detail our novel virtual serious games authoring platform called Moirai, which uses a no-code approach to allow educators who may have limited (or no) prior programming experience to use a diagram-based interface to author and customize serious games focused on decision and communication skills development. We describe two case studies, each of which involved creating serious games for nursing education (one for mental health education and the other for internationally educated nurses). The usability of both games was qualitatively evaluated using the system usability scale (SUS) questionnaire and achieved above-average usability scores.

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Section: User Studysupporting

confidence: 83%

Section: Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%