Serious Games for Professional Skills

Joyce Bierbooms; Milou Feijt; Wijnand IJsselsteijn; Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer; Meddy Weijmans; Evelyn van der Burg; Inge Bongers

doi:10.1145/3393914.3395888

What is it about?

The design and implementation of an escape room as a platform for exploring advances in e-mentalhealth care solutions.

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Why is it important?

The adoption rate of emental health solutions remains behind the perceived potential of technological advances. One of the obstacles is the high threshold to familiarize with new emental health care solutions. An escape room setting creates a safe learning environment that decreases that threshold.

This page is a summary of: Serious Games for Professional Skills, July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3393914.3395888.
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Serious Games for Professional Skills: Supporting Mental Healthcare Professionals in Exploring eHealth
Welcome to the website of the NWO-project “Serious Games for Professional Skills”. In this project, we aim to support mental healthcare professionals in experiencing eMental Health and investigate the possibilities for innovative technologies to enhance empathy in mediated interactions. You can already find more information about the project, watch the trailer of our recently developed eHealth Escape Room, or find more information about the research on the adoption of eHealth and biosignal sharing.

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