Using a task modeling formalism in the design of serious games for emergency medical procedures

Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 95-102

  Vidani, Alberto Cabas ^a   Chittaro, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Design; Development; Emergency medical procedures; Serious games; Task modeling

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT; DOMAIN EXPERTS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL PROCEDURES; GAME DESIGN; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PRODUCTION PROCESS; SERIOUS GAMES; TASK MODELING; TRAINING SCENARIO;

DESIGN; GAME THEORY;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 70350074330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2009.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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