Micro Games for Proactive Preventive Medicine

The OSD is aware that our nation’s younger generations are gamers and have the potential to learn through gaming. OSD has expressed interest in using short duration video games, called micro games, to promote learning in the domain of preventative medicine. Our primary focus during Phase I of this SBIR will be to develop meaningful micro games built on the principles of learning which can be hosted in an educational, web-based system. We will demonstrate the approach with games forealth risk assessment, immunization, screening for diseases, and nutrition. As a proof-of-concept, Ontar will produce two micro games relevant to the preventative medicine topic and demonstrate how our system can develop, host, and distribute training material related to the medical community. At the conclusion of Phase I we will deliver to the OSD a proof-of-concept demonstration for a preventive medicine training hardware and software system.