This document discusses how emerging technologies can be applied to games and simulations for training in healthcare, education, and emergency response. It provides examples of serious games that have been developed for medical training, rehabilitation, rescue services, and smart cities. These games use virtual reality, sensors, and real data to create immersive learning experiences for skills training and behavioral change. The document argues that technologies will shift power and responsibilities onto citizens through gamified environments on mobile devices.

1. Serious gaming, enabling technologies and
immersive experiences applied to rescue
services and civil protection
Lucia Pannese
Virtual Fires Kongress, 02 June 2016

2. Impact of Disruptive Technologies
on Games and Simulations for Health, Training and Security
Looking to the immediate future, there are emerging and maturing disruptive
technologies that are predictive to have a transformative effect on healthcare,
training and security and generate a substantive acceleration of growth in the
size and diversity of games, simulations and gamification:
nano‐technologiesnano‐technologies
visualisationvisualisation
sensorssensors
big databig data
wearable lifestyle
tracking devices
wearable lifestyle
tracking devices
cloud computingcloud computing
interface devicesinterface devices
social mediasocial media
wireless broadbandwireless broadband

3. The ability to measure, analyse and
feedback different kinds of data to the
citizen is likely to shift the power and
responsibility for several practices away
from professionals and onto citizens using
these disruptive technologies to both better
understand these practices and be
motivated to change behaviours through
gamified environments on wearable and
mobile devices.
Smart Societies witnesses a shift of power!

4. Smart Societies will be based on a seamless
collaboration between people and machines
who synergically complement each other in a
socio‐technical ecosystem in which the
physical and virtual dimensions of life are
more and more intertwined and where
people interaction, more often than not,
takes place with or is mediated by machines.
Smart Societies witnesses a shift of power!

5. In short, the coming months and years will
witness a revolution in several practices and
responsibilities and an explosion of
gamification, games and simulations in
different domains. Creativity and
computational power will be combined and
people will both exploit and feed technical
systems.
Smart Societies witnesses a shift of power!

6. Games examples
Smart eHospital Rescue League ‐ The Virtual Tutor DOREMI Smart Society
RehAbility Construction Site CLinC ‐ The Virtual Tutor Pegaso
RehAbility

7. In a Nutshell
• Real content
• Real data
• Real environment
• Real story
• Real content
• Real data
• Real environment
• Real story
• Has to be playable
• Has to be fun
• Has to be informative /
instructional / clinically sound
• Has to be playable
• Has to be fun
• Has to be informative /
instructional / clinically sound

8. Transforming a Process into a Game
PrototypingPrototyping
GameGame
Clinical objectiveClinical objective Clinical contentClinical content Context of useContext of use
Target needsTarget needs
Target
expectations
Target
expectations
Specialist Target users

9. Virtual Immersive Hospital
TRAINING

10. Virtual Immersive Hospital after an Earthquake
TRAINING

11. Virtual Immersive Hospital after an Earthquake
TRAINING

12. Virtual Immersive Hospital after an Earthquake
• Procedural Training
• Addressed at volunteers of 118
• Exploration of space, dialogues, decision making, mini‐games
• Reflection support through virtual tutor and learning diary
• Ca 45 min duration
• Feedback video:
TRAINING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmYb2gBErwk

13. Gamified Medical Learning Environment
TRAINING

14. Neuro‐Rehabilitation
eHEALTH
and CARE

15. Motion Tracking Systems

16. Cognitive rehabilitation can make
independent again.
Cognitive rehabilitation can make
independent again.
Cognitive Rehabilitation
eHEALTH
and CARE

17. Active Ageing
www.doremi‐fp7.eu
eHEALTH
and CARE

18. Awareness Raising:Obesity
www.pegasof4f.eu
eHEALTH
and CARE

19. Hazards and risks can be reduced by training engineers in a virtual
construction site. The game unfolds using ordinary activities and unexpected,
urgent accidents in a farm under renovation.
Construction Site: safety in progress
TRAINING

20. SmartSociety is a gamified city environment bringing together different local
and touristic services that citizens can use and contribute to actively.
The first gamified service is SmartShare, the new app for car pooling.
Smart Society: a suite for a smarter society
WATCH THE VIDEO
www.smart‐society‐project.eu
virtual
gamified city
environment
Smart
Share
app
SMART CITIES
and COMMUNITIES

21. Smart Society for rescue services and civil protection
www.smart‐society‐project.eu
SMART CITIES
and COMMUNITIES
• Messaging
• Alerts
• Protection plans
• Best practices
• Training
• Peers
• Humans
• machines
• Machine Learning
• Provenance and reputation services
• Orchestration services
• Incentives and motivation

22. www.smart‐society‐project.eu
SMART CITIES
and COMMUNITIES
• Social features
• Gamification
• Crowdsourcing
• Users become active contributors of the system
• User contributions feed machine learning
• Information is enriched and sooner available
• Gamification motivates users to contribute
Es: waze https://www.waze.com/en
Smart Society for rescue services and civil protection

23. Contact Info
Lucia Pannese
lucia.pannese@i‐maginary.it
lpannese imaginary.italy
imaginary_italy
www.i‐maginary.it