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The evolutionary development of a serious game for clinical laboratory students

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Nuwee Wiwatwattana,

Natinan BunyakulAuthors Info & Claims

IC4E '19: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning

Pages 141 - 145

https://doi.org/10.1145/3306500.3306545

Published: 10 January 2019 Publication History

IC4E '19: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning

The evolutionary development of a serious game for clinical laboratory students

Pages 141 - 145

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Implementing hands-on experience for clinical laboratory can be a challenge due to budgetary constraints. To provide students with the opportunity to practice repeatedly before applying the knowledge to the live laboratory setting, a mobile serious game called "Clinic Chemistry" was developed. In this paper, we share the experience in developing two versions of the game from the perspective of game designers/developers as part of an end-to-end educational game research. We have adopted the evolutionary rapid prototyping paradigm to create the early prototype, the pre-alpha. The pre-alpha was then evolved into the alpha release. The pre-production and production steps of the two versions, as well as evolved game components, are reported. We conclude that the rapid prototype is the key to our successful release of the game.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCED56140.2022.10010642

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The evolutionary development of a serious game for clinical laboratory students
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
      1. Computer games
  2. Education
    1. E-learning
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods
        Rapid application development

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IC4E '19: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning

January 2019

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ISBN:9781450366021

DOI:10.1145/3306500

Conference Chairs:
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University of Alberta, Canada

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IC4E 2019: 2019 10th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning

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Vakasari SFarida IIrwansyah F(2022)Augmented Reality-Based Learning Media for Simple Distillation Practical Apparatus2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Computing, Engineering and Design (ICCED)10.1109/ICCED56140.2022.10010642(1-5)Online publication date: 28-Jul-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCED56140.2022.10010642

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