20th May 2008: Serious games in health & social care markets
Identifying potential improvement areas in the training and education of doctors, health & social care professionals and of service users by exploiting serious computer games technologies.
Objective
Who attended?
Decision makers in health and social care and their suppliers of training and ICT services.
Opportunities?
We have a tiger by the tail! We are now in the process of identifying specific opportunities.
Registered users only: We are putting the opportunity areas on our Health forum as they arise:
Agenda & presentations:
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- David Grindrod, Deputy Director, UWSP
- John Beeston, The Marketing Workspace
Session 1: (Training the clinicians)
- Prof. Matthew Cooke (Warwick medical School): "What is the potential for serious games in healthcare?"
- Nigel Wynne (Birmingham City University):"Serious games and virtual worlds. A health care education & training perspective"
- David Burden (Managing Director, Daden Ltd): "Choosing a "virtual world" and an example of interfacing the "Medbiquitous Virtual Patient" into Second Life"
Session 2: (Management training & supporting the clients/patients)
- Graham Beaumont (The Health Exchange): "Reaching out to the community"
Charles Goody (Warwickshire Probation service): "Bringing education to people on probation"
- Kevin Corti (Director, Pixelearning): "Example of serious games for management training"
- John Beeston (The marketing Workspace): "The way ahead".
Sponsored by:
"We are delighted to have organised and sponsored this event as an example of what we do. It is clear that, to meet the challenges in health & social care, we will all have to get out of our comfort zone. We will have to form new partnerships with people from other areas: Health & social services, serious games, interactive media, ICT, training services. The good news is that all these skills are here in the West Midlands.” John W Beeston, The Marketing Workspace




