Micro Games for Proactive Preventive Medicine

MYMIC, LLC and Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) will address the need for Service member preventive medicine education with design FIT-Health, an updateable, multi-genre authoring system for micro-games for health risk awareness. These short and stimulating game-based lessons will build upon one another to leverage new and existing knowledge within a region-specific suite while giving the learner control over their education through presentation mode. Development will be approached in an interdisciplinary fashion in order to address the content and instructional design of the games and the technology-based system design. FIT-Health will create a sense of engagement in a short period of time that will persist over several presentations, similar to television sitcoms. In addition, the games will be updateable to ensure the dissemination of current information to Service members. Last, FIT-Health will be developed for adaptation to mobile platforms, which will ensure that access can occur anywhere at any time, by utilizing a cross-platform authoring tool. This ubiquitous solution will consist of games that both engage the learner and promote learning transfer, resulting in a motivated learner and a successful learning experience.