July 2021

Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching

The serious game “Corporate Law”, developed in collaboration between AlbaSim and the University of Geneva, wins the prize for pedagogical innovation and receives the Credit Suisse Teaching Award.

July 2021

Our Serious Games Design Framework is Published

Our framework for collaborative design of serious games, developed within the FNS co.LAB project, is published in the journal JMIR Serious Games.

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Jaccard D., Suppan L., Sanchez E., Huguenin A., and Laurent M., The co.LAB Generic Framework for Collaborative Design of Serious Games: Development Study, JMIR Serious Games, 2021, doi: 10/03/2021:28674.

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June 2021

Award : U d’argent soignants

The Silver U Award for our serious game “Emergency Triage”.

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Within a research carried out with our serious game “Emergency Triage”, the Silver U Award was given to the presentation ” Evaluation de l’impact des distracteurs de l’environnement de travail sur le tri: étude randomisée contrôlée à l’aide d’un serious game (SG)”. Fiorentino, A., Hugli, O., Rutschmann, O., Simon, J., Vuilleumier, S., Antonini, M., Jaccard, D., Delmas, P. French Society of Emergency Medicine (SFMU) Conference, Paris, 2021.

This honorary and financial award is given by a major emergency medicine society for the best presentations highlighting innovative issues.

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Research Projects

Patient’s Rights & Innovative Teaching Strategy

A Serious Game for education on the legal rules of the health field. This game will be used as a driver for pedagogical innovation. Funded by HES-SO, in partnership with Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud

Project Management Game (PM-Game)

Take the role of a project manager and manage a virtual project! A complete educational concept integrating software simulation, teamwork and role-playing. The PM-Game is currently used by thousands of students in Switzerland and abroad.

Programming Game

Learn JavaScript programming in order to control your avatar ! Developed in the frame of the “Programming and Computational Thinking” project funded by the Hasler Foundation.

Co.LAB

Development of a collaborative digital platform for the co-design, co-development and co-evaluation of serious games. Project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and conducted in partnership with the University of Fribourg and the University of Geneva.

MIMMS

Development of a simulation for individual and team training in the management of major medical events. The project is co-funded by the University Hospital of Geneva and InnoSuisse.
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