Design and Development of a Serious Game for Medical Training in Cytopathology

Abstract

We are designing and developing a serious game for cytopathology medical training. This game has some challenging technical requirement as to be deployable both in PCs and in low-cost Android tablets (e.g., 50$ Kindle Fire 7 tablet) with a limited budget. We reviewed some of the existing games or gamified elearning modules to create a shared understanding between medical experts and developers about possible game mechanics and to identify which of those approaches can be suitable for our case.