• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.73-90
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• 2013

Serious games allow learners to experience situations that are impossible in the real world for various purposes. To date the major applications of serious games include military, government, education, corporate and healthcare applications. This paper aims to provide an overview of the applications of serious games for various health-related purposes, particularly for Health and Medicine education, health risk prevention, behavioral intervention, and disease self-management. These games identified numerous papers reporting empirical evidence about the impacts and outcomes. There is potential promise for serious games to improve health outcomes. We discuss implications of using serious games for health-related purposes and future direction for research in this area.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.91-99
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is to study and suggest a new classification method of the medical serious games which take the second major part of serious games after the educational games. Based on the classification suggested, various possibilities of medical serious games are suggested. Especially, how movement based language and contents can be used on various kind of medical serious games such as rehabilitation and cognitive behavioral therapy is explored.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.87-94
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• 2017

Due to improvements in the capabilities of commercial game engines, there are increasing instances of applying game engines to scientific visualization applications. This study describes a case of creating a virtual reality application that visualizes medical volume data based on the Unity3D game engine. When using a game engine, there is an advantage that various functions required for an application are basically provided, such as depth sorting of translucent objects or virtual reality hardware support. On the other hand, there is a restriction that the structure of the application program should be modified to suit the characteristics of the game engine. This paper describes a method for visualizing medical volume data using the structure of a game engine. As a result, we were able to create a virtual reality scene that consisted of surface data and medical volume data fragments together. And we confirmed the possibility of game engine as a future medical simulation production tool.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.19-26
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• 2013

As the Medical Serious Games are recently proven effective, the quality evaluation of the game has become an important issue. In quality evaluation, objective criteria and evaluation elements are important. Quality evaluation of the serious game is divided into two areas : the technical (from the point of view of Program) and the non-technical (from the point of view of Content). In this study, we developed the quality evaluation element of the non-technical area to the psychotherapy and the health & rehab game according to developing process of quality evaluation model. We extracted five evaluation elements from the two kinds of medical games, and interviewed with medical experts in order to ensure the validity of them. The goodness of fit tests for the elements mentioned above were verified by conducting. Chi-square test results for the two groups did not differ significantly. In conclusion, we expect to take advantage of the results of this study to design and develop serious games for medical treatment.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.744-761
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• 2021

Recently, public interest in Healing Games is increasing. But, due to the absence in an agreed concept, an academic discussion on the healing games has not commenced. Thus, this study proposed a concept for the 'Healing Games' and sought to draw key features. First, a comparison between healing games and medical serious games were compared to confirm that key concept of healing games. Afterwards, healing games were selected and reviewed to identify the narrative, structural and sensory features.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.100-113
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• 2019

VR 기술 및 활용에 대한 다양한 연구와 장밋빛 전망에도 불구하고, 현재 우리 법 제도는 VR 산업 활성화의 걸림돌이 되는 규제들을 완전히 제거하지 못한 상태이다. 특히, 의료 및 게임 분야에서 VR 콘텐츠의 특수성을 고려한 맞춤형 규제설계가 필요하다. 먼저, 현행 규제상 의료용 VR 콘텐츠 및 소프트웨어는 의료기기 수입 제조허가와 신의료기술평가를 모두 거쳐야 하는데, 특히 신의료기술평가의 경우에는 의료용 VR 콘텐츠 및 소프트웨어에 대한 대비가 충분하지 않아 이의 활용에 상당한 장애가 될 수 있다. 그러므로 정부가 가이드라인 등 적절한 해석기준을 통해 의료기기의 범위를 불필요하게 확대하지 않도록 하고, 아울러 신의료기술평가에 있어 '선 진입, 후 평가' 제도를 활용할 수 있도록 개선이 요구된다. 다음으로, 게임의 경우에는 현행 게임산업법상 게임물의 정의가 너무 광범위하여 양방향성이 있는 VR 콘텐츠들이 게임물로 분류되어 불필요한 규제를 받을 가능성이 있으며, 여기에 더하여 최근 세계보건기구에서 '게임 이용 장애'를 국제질병분류에 포함시킴으로써 추가 규제에 대한 우려까지 더해지고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서는 법제처가 최근 발표한 "적극행정 법제 가이드라인"의 취지에 맞게 정부가 게임물 규제의 범위를 적극적으로 축소 해석하거나, 이러한 규제의 예외를 정하는 고시 또는 가이드라인을 제정할 필요가 있다. 또한, 현재 시행 중인 'ICT 규제 샌드박스' 제도를 잘 활용하고, 이와 별도로 국제질병분류의 국내 수용에 대해서도 보다 신중하게 접근할 필요가 있을 것이다.

• The Monthly Diabetes
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• s.259
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• pp.70-71
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• 2011

`의사가 제대로 설명해주지 않는다', '진료시간이 너무 짧다' 등의 말은 환자의 입에서 자주 오르내리는 불만사항이다. 게다가 당뇨병 환자는 갖가지 합병증을 앓다보면 치료받아야 할 일이 많아져 그만큼 병원 가야할 일도 잦아지는데, 그러다보면 예기치 못하게 의료사고의 피해자가 될 수 있다. 의료사고가 발생해도 전문지식을 가진 병원을 상대로 승소하기가 힘들다보니 속수무책으로 당할 수밖에 없는 게 환자의 처지다. 사례를 통해 의료사고에 대한 지식을 넓혀보자.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2013.01a
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• pp.39-40
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• 2013

의료용 기능성게임의 효과가 입증되면서 다양한 분야의 투자와 주목을 받고 있다. 이에 따라 사용자를 위하여 의료용 기능성게임의 품질평가가 중요한 이슈가 되었다. 품질평가는 객관적인 기준과 평가요소 개발이 중요하다. 기능성게임의 특성 상 품질평가는 기술적인 영역과 비기술적인 영역으로 나누어 진행된다. 본 연구에서는 의료용 기능성게임의 비기술적인 영역의 품질평가 요소를 개발하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법을 사용하여 심리 치료와 헬스케어 및 재활치료 2개 분야에 대해 각각 5개의 평가 요소를 추출하였다. 추출 결과는 전문가에 의해 내용 타당도 검사로 신뢰성을 확보했다. 본 연구는 다양한 분야의 기능성게임 품질평가 모델 개발의 가이드라인이 될 것이다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.65-74
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• 2018

As commercial game engines become available to the public, attempts have been made to use it for general purpose research. This study uses the game engine to develop a medical simulation. Specifically, when the user selects an important portion of the human body, the focus+context visualization is applied to the volume data. We proposes the accumulation based method to make the background part more transparent and naturally fuse it with the focus part. Since the proposed method combines well with the existing volume visualization, the virtual surgery function such as incision is performed smoothly. The game engine is useful for general-purpose research, because auxiliary functions such as collision handling and UI can be efficiently created with the help of it.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.47
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• pp.273-294
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• 2017

Korea has suffered numerous casualties due to a lot of accidents caused by safety insufficiency in recent years. Therefore, safety education is more important than ever before, and 'how to educate with what contents' is an important subject. Especially, experience education is effective rather than theoretical education because of the nature of safety education. However, it is not easy to design and develop these safety education programs. There is not much opportunity to access first-aid training, which is a part of safety education, unless it is compulsory to learn through public institutions. As a result, program utilization on safety education in Korea is still insufficient to what it should be. With that taken into account, this study proposed an effective serious game with fun and immersion for medical first-aid education. To do this, we analyzed five medical games through 20 cases of first-aid applications and elicited five factors that enhance the usability of serious games. With an analysis of five medical games, we selected one game to borrow the game rules, and applied the elicited five elements in the forms of level-up structure, iterative learning, compensation outcomes, competition system, and information transfer. The proposed medical education functional games should have 1) a character that plays a role of a patient, 2) a narrative flow that shows the situation, 3) the user should judge the situation and induce first aid. 4) compensation, levels, and simple repetition should be designed, and 5) information should be shared with the others in the given community. The results of this study is believed to contribute to enhance the medical emergency education in Korea.