The 1st International Workshop on Gamification and Games for Learning (GamiLearn’17) in conjunction with CIVE’17, was held on June 5-6, 2017 in Tenerife, Spain. The workshop was open to contributions from researchers, practitioners and industry in the application of gamification or games in learning environments.
During the workshop, the paper Developing gamified interactive content for medical training in cytopathology by Dan C. Rotaru, Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, Avni Katri and Rosemary H. Tambouret was presented. This work is a collaboration between UCM and the Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School. Below you can find the paper’s abstract:
Cytologists at Massachusetts General Hospital want to improve training of both medical students at Harvard Medical School and cytologists in resource-limited areas of the world. The approach is to use medical imaging game-like interactive content but that could be developed within a limited budget and meeting some challenging technical requirement (to be deployable on both PCs and in low-cost Android tablets without a continuous connection to the internet). We reviewed some of the existing games or gamified e-learning modules to create a shared understanding between medical experts and developers about possible game mechanics and to identify which of those approaches can be suitable for our case. We have applied the acquired knowledge in the creation of an integrated system composed of a web-based content editor for cytologists from where the interactive game-like application can be semi-automatically generated. Once the system has been developed we are carrying out tests with professors and students at an Introduction to Cytopathology course at Harvard Medical School to ensure both the usability of the system and that the learning goals are satisfied.
The full text of the paper is accessible at: http://www.e-ucm.es/drafts/e-UCM_draft_313.pdf or at https://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4777