Breast cancer diagnosis through serious gaming: Clinical reasoning, AI-driven character morphing, and emotional engagement

IF 2.8 3区计算机科学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS

Entertainment Computing Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI:10.1016/j.entcom.2024.100863

Rafael Garcia Barbosa, Maria Andréia Formico Rodrigues

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Abstract

This work introduces “Cancer: Now What?”, an innovative serious game designed for healthcare training with unlimited, comprehensive clinical scenarios. Focused on the diagnosis of breast cancer and other benign findings, the game is engineered to enhance the diagnostic skills of healthcare professionals by immersing them in a variety of diagnostic challenges related to clinical reasoning practice. It features AI-driven morphing to dynamically portray characters’ emotional responses, deepening player engagement and emotional connection. Despite some punctual challenges with visual artifacts in the morphing animations, the integration of real-life clinical reasoning with computational techniques highlights the game’s potential to advance clinical reasoning practice. This collaboration between game architects and medical experts highlights the substantial contributions of serious games to medical education, elevating them beyond mere entertainment to become essential educational tools.

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Entertainment Computing Computer Science-Human-Computer Interaction

CiteScore

5.90

自引率

7.10%

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期刊介绍： Entertainment Computing publishes original, peer-reviewed research articles and serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods and tools in all aspects of digital entertainment, new media, entertainment computing, gaming, robotics, toys and applications among researchers, engineers, social scientists, artists and practitioners. Theoretical, technical, empirical, survey articles and case studies are all appropriate to the journal.