| dc.description.abstract | Simulation-based training has been widely adopted by healthcare education as a
vital tool in the practice of skills within a safe environment. However, significant cost
and logistical challenges exist within traditional simulation practices. Serious games,
or games with a primary purpose other than entertainment, are virtual simulations
which can address many of these issues while remaining proven tools for effective
skills transfer to the real world. This thesis presents two serious games for anesthesia
training, one dealing with anesthesia crisis resource management skills and one
serving as an epidural procedure preparation tool. The work seeks to demonstrate
that the combination of serious games and consumer-grade virtual reality hardware
provide an interactive and engaging simulation environment for anesthesia training.
Through a set of usability tests, results indicate that both serious games offer a level
of game engagement while demonstrating the ability of room-scale virtual reality to
provide certain benefits applicable to serious games and simulations. From this, a set
of recommendations and guidelines for the designers and developers of serious games
and simulations are provided. | en |
