Development of the e-Baby Serious Game With Regard to the Evaluation of Oxygenation in Preterm Babies Contributions of the Emotional Design

Author(s)

Monti Fonseca, Luciana Mara ^[1] ; Vilela Dias, Danielle Monteiro ^[1] ; Nogueira Goes, Fernanda Dos Santos ^[1] ; Seixas, Carlos Alberto ^[1] ; Silvan Scochi, Carmen Gracinda ^[1] ; Amado Martins, Jose Carlos ^[2] ; Rodrigues, Manuel Alves ^[3]

Affiliation

^[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto Coll Nursing, BR-05508 Sao Paulo - Brazil

^[2] Coimbra Nursing Sch, Dept Med Surg Nursing, Coimbra - Portugal

^[3] Coimbra Nursing Sch, Dept Mental Hlth Nursing & Psychiat, Coimbra - Portugal

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: CIN-COMPUTERS INFORMATICS NURSING; v. 32, n. 9, p. 428-436, SEP 2014.
• Web of Science Citations: 9

Abstract

The present study aimed to describe the development process of a serious game that enables users to evaluate the respiratory process in a preterm infant based on an emotional design model. The e-Baby serious game was built to feature the simulated environment of an incubator, in which the user performs a clinical evaluation of the respiratory process in a virtual preterm infant. The user learns about the preterm baby's history, chooses the tools for the clinical evaluation, evaluates the baby, and determines whether his/her evaluation is appropriate. The e-Baby game presents phases that contain respiratory process impairments of higher or lower complexity in the virtual preterm baby. Included links give the user the option of recording the entire evaluation procedure and sharing his/her performance on a social network. e-Baby integrates a Clinical Evaluation of the Preterm Baby course in the Moodle virtual environment. This game, which evaluates the respiratory process in preterm infants, could support a more flexible, attractive, and interactive teaching and learning process that includes simulations with features very similar to neonatal unit realities, thus allowing more appropriate training for clinical oxygenation evaluations in at-risk preterm infants. e-Baby allows advanced user-technology educational interactions because it requires active participation in the process and is emotionally integrated. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/03101-2 - Serious game m-Baby and e-Baby: contributions of emotional design for education in neonatal nursing
• Grantee: Luciana Mara Monti Fonseca
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 08/11271-7 - A educational software on physical examination for the teaching of neonatal nursing
• Grantee: Carmen Gracinda Silvan Scochi
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 11/03191-6 - Emotional design: contributions to the interaction student-virtual learning object and neonatal nursing - phases I, II, III and IV
• Grantee: Luciana Mara Monti Fonseca
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research