title: Development of the e-Baby serious game with regard to the evaluation of oxygenation in preterm babies: contributions of the emotional design.
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.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil (Drs Fonseca, Góes, Seixas, and Scochi and Ms Dias); and Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing (Dr Martins) and Department of Mental Health Nursing and Psychiatric (Dr Rodrigues), Coimbra Nursing School, Portugal.
authors.forename: Luciana Mara Monti
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Fonseca
authors.forename: Danielle Monteiro Vilela
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.forename: Fernanda Dos Santos Nogueira
authors.initials: Fdos S
authors.lastname: Góes
authors.forename: Carlos Alberto
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Seixas
authors.forename: Carmen Gracinda Silvan
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Scochi
authors.forename: José Carlos Amado
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: Manuel Alves
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005260:Female; D005717:Games, Experimental; D006801:Humans; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000502:physiology*; D017145:Models, Educational; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000502:physiology*; D012119:Respiration; D000066908:Simulation Training