News
A serious game to evaluate the impact of environmental distractors on the performance of emergency triage
December 2018
Beginning of a new projet in partnership with “Institut et Haute Ecole de santé La Source” and “Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG)”.
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In the emergency department, triage decisions have a direct impact on patients’ survival rates. However, studies have found significant differences in nurses’ attribution of the emergency degree, either by over- or under-evaluation, with major consequences for patient management.
Among the factors that could explain the cause of these discrepancies, distractors in the work environment such as noise or task interruptions were highlighted but did not benefit from specific investigations, particularly due to the difficulty of evaluating them in real healthcare environments.
Therefore, in this project, we will develop and use a serious game in order to reproduces a work environment with distractors and provide a unique opportunity to explore their impacts on the quality of triage in emergency departments.
This study will provide a better understanding of the contribution of the work environment to safe care.
Learning Analytics Workshop
November 2018
The “learning analytics” workshop is co-organized by AlbaSim and the Laboratoire d’Innovation Pédagogique (University of Fribourg), partners in several research projects. (…) Thème du séminaire La collecte automatique et l’analyse de données numériques dans le but de comprendre et d’optimiser l’apprentissage ainsi que les dispositifs mis en place est aujourd’hui une méthodologie en plein essor. Ces approches s’inscrivent dans des paradigmes méthodologiques qui relèvent de l’analytique de l’apprentissage (learning analytics) ou de la fouille de données éducatives (educational data mining). Par ailleurs, le développement de méthodes statistiques et plus particulièrement de celles qui relèvent de l’intelligence artificielle ouvre de nouvelles perspectives à la science des données pour l’éducation et la formation. Ces nouvelles perspectives offertes au/à la chercheur/euse concernent par exemple la modélisation comportementale et épistémique de l’apprenant·e à des fins de diagnostic et de compréhension du processus d’apprentissage. Ce séminaire vise à travailler ces méthodologies émergentes et plus particulièrement à aborder la question de l’analytique de l’apprentissage. Il s’agira d’échanger sur la manière dont les données peuvent être collectées et exploitées pour modéliser l’apprenant·e et favoriser sa prise en compte dans les environnements numériques dédiés à l’éducation et à la formation. Il s’agira également d’identifier les difficultés méthodologiques et questions épistémologiques auxquelles sont confrontés les chercheurs/euses qui emploient de telles approches. Le séminaire comprendra trois interventions (détails au format PDF) :HEIG-VD, salle S107, le 30 novembre 2018 de 9h30 à 12h15
François Bouchet, Lip6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Laurent Bolli, HEIG-VD, Suisse
Guillaume Bonvin, Eric Sanchez, Unifr, Suisse
Celso Gonçalves, Uni. Fatra, Brésil
Athens – 1st test of the serious game m-benefits
October 2018
AlbaSim is at the National Technical University of Athens (Greece) for the second meeting of the H2020 European project M-Benefits. Dominique present the first version of the m-benefits serious game. Very positive feedbacks from all participants !
What we do...
AlbaSim designs and develops Serious Games for educational purposes. A Serious Game is a computer application that combines a serious intention, of an educational, informative or training nature with playful mechanics from the worlds of video games and computer simulations.
Our research and development activity includes designing authoring tools for serious games, integrating serious games and active pedagogies, using serious games as a basis for resolving real-world problems, analyzing the impact of using serious games.
Research Projects
Emergency Game – A serious game to evaluate the impact of environmental distractors on the performance of emergency triage
In the emergency department, triage decisions have a direct impact on patients’ survival rates. However, studies have found significant differences in nurses’ attribution of the emergency degree, either by over- or under-evaluation, with major consequences for patient management. (…) Among the factors that could explain the cause of these discrepancies, distractors in the work environment such as noise or task interruptions were highlighted but did not benefit from specific investigations, particularly due to the difficulty of evaluating them in real healthcare environments. Therefore, in this project, we will develop and use a serious game in order to reproduces a work environment with distractors and provide a unique opportunity to explore their impacts on the quality of triage in emergency departments. This study will provide a better understanding of the contribution of the work environment to safe care. Partners: Institut et Haute Ecole de santé La Source, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG)
H2020 : M-Benefits (2018)
Industrial and service sectors offers potential for cost-effective energy-savings. But under-investment in energy-efficiency is observed in all EU countries. This is called the «energy-efficiency gap».
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The goal of this Horizon 2020 European Project is to train energy experts to evaluate all effects of energy efficiency measures. This work will contribute to increase attractiveness of energy projects and to reduce the energy-efficiency gap.
In this project, AlbaSim is the task leader for the development of the serious games that will be used for training of energy-efficiency experts and for results dissemination.
Partners: European Commission – Horizon 2020
Collaborations
We conduct AR&D projects in collaboration with academic partners ranging from pedagogical research centers to natural language processing.
LIP – Laboratoire d’Innovation Pédagogique (UniFr)
Joint research projects in the area of learning analytics and education in computational thinking.
La Source, Institut et Haute Ecole de la Santé
Collaboration on the development of serious games for education and research in nursing sciences.