Only One Day: A Mobile Game Transforming Middle School Students into Future Emergency Medical Professionals

 描述(由申请人提供)：Schell Games与WestEd合作，提议创建一款名为Only One Day的移动冒险游戏，在游戏中，中学玩家能够从急诊科(Ed)的不同角色(医生、护士、治疗师等)的角度体验一天的兴奋。玩家将在不同的会话中多次体验同一天，在医生和工作人员的位置之间移动，完成相关的医疗任务，并做出关于患者护理以及医生和工作人员的互动和协作的决定。为了取得成功并完成游戏，玩家必须使用工程设计技能(如下一代科学标准所定义)来定义问题(对于患者和工作人员)，开发和测试行为模型，解释从这些模型中获得的证据，并使用这些证据来指导他们解决问题。因为玩家必须在多次迭代中体验同一天，他们必须使用在当天的前几次迭代中获得的信息来告知如何有效和高效地解决患者和工作人员的问题。这个游戏被设计成在5，20分钟的时间内进行。每一次会议将代表在急诊室的一天。到最后阶段，玩家应该已经对他们为病人做出的医疗决定以及他们与角色之间的互动有了足够的了解，才能玩到理想的一天，从而击败游戏。该项目的目标是(1)通过游戏发展和提高中学生的工程设计技能，(2)使学生熟悉ED的专业，包括实现这一职业目标所需的医学知识和步骤，以及(3)改变ED角色中的种族和民族多样性的看法。WestEd将与学生、教师和内容专家一起进行可用性和可行性测试，以确保第一阶段的产品是可能的最佳产品，并为未来第二阶段产品计划的开发提供有用的信息。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Schell Games, in partnership with WestEd, proposes to create a mobile adventure game entitled Only One Day in which middle-school players are able to experience the excitement of one day in an emergency department (ED) from the perspective of various ED roles (physicians, nurses, therapists, etc). Players will experience the same day multiple times across sessions, moving between physician and staff positions, completing associated medical tasks, and making decisions about patient care and physician and staff interactions and collaborations. To have a successful day and complete the game, players must use engineering design skills (as defined by the Next Generation Science Standards) to define problems (for both patients and staff), develop and test models of behavior, interpret evidence gained from these models, and use that evidence to inform their problem solving. Because players must experience the same day in multiple iterations, they must use information obtained during previous iterations of that day to inform how to effectively and efficiently solve problems with patients and staff. This game is designed to take place within 5, 20-min sessions. Each session will represent one day in the emergency room. By the final session, players should have developed enough knowledge about both their medical decisions for their patients and their between-character interactions to play the ideal day and, thus, beat the game. The project goals are to (1) develop and improve middle-school students' engineering design skills through gameplay, (2) familiarize students with ED professions, including required medical knowledge and steps to achieve this career goal, and (3) change the perception of racial and ethnic diversity within ED roles. WestEd will conduct usability and feasibility testing with students, teachers, and content experts to ensure that the Phase I product is the best possible one and provide useful information for development of future Phase II product plans.