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A Study on Medical Serious Game: Classification & Possibility (의료용 기능성 게임에 대한 고찰)

  • Woo, Tack;Yeom, Jin
    • 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.

A Study on the Concept and Characteristics of 'Healing Games' : Focusing on Comparison with Medical Serious Games ('힐링 게임'의 개념과 주요 특징에 관한 연구 : 의료용 기능성 게임을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Sung Je;Bae, Sang-Joon
    • 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.

The impact of major league baseball on the incidence of operative hand and facial trauma at a level 1 trauma center

  • Ricci, Joseph A.;Vargas, Christina R.;Ho, Olivia A.;Lin, Samuel J.;Lee, Bernard T.
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.198-203
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    • 2019
  • Background Professional affiliation between medical centers and professional sports teams can be mutually beneficial in the provision of healthcare and marketing strategy. Anecdotal evidence suggests a link between trauma volume and sporting events; however, there is limited data. This study aims to characterize the incidence of operative hand and facial trauma during professional baseball home games. Methods A retrospective review of surgical cases for traumatic hand or facial injuries at a level 1 center between 1999 and 2012 was performed. Demographic information including date of injury, admission status, and operative repair were collected. Patients were grouped based on whether their trauma occurred on the date of a home game. Results Operative hand and facial trauma occurred at a rate of 33.4 injuries per 100 days with home games, compared to 22.2 injuries per 100 days (incidence rate ratios, 1.50; 95% confidence interval, 1.34-1.69). When home games were played, patients were more likely to present as a result of motorcycle accidents (3.1% vs. 1.5%; P=0.04) or bicycle accidents (5.0% vs. 2.6%; P=0.01). Other mechanisms of trauma were not statistically different. There was an increase incidence of injuries during home games in August; weekly variability showed an increased incidence during the weekends. Conclusions There was an increased rate of operative hand and facial injuries on dates with professional home games. The incidence of injuries during home games was higher in the late summer and on the weekends. Further analysis may allow improved resource allocation and strategies for injury prevention and treatment.

Analysis of Sports Medical Care Utilization during the 24th Seoul Olympic Games (서울올림픽대회 기간중 스포츠의료 이용에 관한 분석)

  • Yu, Seung-Hum;Sohn, Myong-Sei;Lee, Young-Doo;Park, Eun-Cheol;Kim, Chun-Bae
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.22 no.1 s.25
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    • pp.136-145
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    • 1989
  • This study made a descriptive analysis of the cumulative amount and rate of sports medical care utilization during the 24th Seoul Olympic Games by the participating athletes, officials, etc. The sports medical care utilization was a component of the total medical care use and was basically caused by the prevention and treatment of sports injuries. The analytic data were derived from the Olympic Health Management Information System(OHMIS) of the SLOOC and the Korea Athlete Trainer Association(KATA). These were analyzed according to the quantity of physician visits and the utilization rate, which was the amount of utilization divided by the total number of participating persons. The results were as follows: Firstly, the sports medical care utilization by the persons participating in the Seoul Olympics amounted to 17.9% of the total medical care utilization. The venue medical services utilization accounted for 54.7% of the total physician visits, which was larger than the village medical center's utilization. The number of physician visits per hundred persons during the 2 week period in the venue clinic was 3.03 and that of the village medical center was 2.51, therefore, the total was 5.54. Secondly, athletes accounted for 82.3% and officials 12.2% in the sports medical care utilization by participants. These results were because athletes, who were directly related to the games, called extremely often on the physicians. The utilization rate of sports medical care by athletes was 34.29. Thirdly, the sports medical demand according to type of therapy could be ranked from high to low in the following order: sports massage, thermal therapy, and electrical stimulation treatment, etc. The department of physical therapy in the village medical center was used a great deal. Fourthly, the trend of daily sports medical care utilization by the athletes showed a bell shape centering around the opening day of the Seoul Olympic Games. The utilization rate of athletes was 2.3; however, that of officials was 0.6. Lastly, the sports medical demand was calculated according to the continents, and Central America, Africa and Middle-East Asia proved to have a higher rate of sports medical care utilization than the more powerful and industrialized continent or regions.

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A Study on the Analysis and Device Immersion of Game Platforms Optimized for Metabus Environment - Comparison of popular games in Korea, China, and Japan - (메타버스 환경에 적합한 게임 플랫폼과 디바이스 몰입요소 분석 - 한·중·일 인기게임 비교를 통해서 -)

  • Lim, SangGuk
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.852-865
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    • 2022
  • During the COVID-19 pandemic, games played an important role in people's lives. Numerous online users flocked to the game platform, and brand companies started using online games to promote their products. Medical institutions have also implemented policies for healthy physical activity through online games. In order to attract more global game users, research on immersion in games is also very important to prevent users from leaving the platform. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the common immersion elements of popular games by country and study them from the perspective of changing devices. In this paper, representative popular games of Korea, China, and Japan, which are recently called the dark horse of the game industry, are classified by devices of mobile, online PCs, and VR games and analyzed using immersion analysis tools proposed by researcher. Next, the representative metaverse games of the Web 3.0 era were analyzed, and their characteristics were compared with the results of the immersion analysis between Korea, China, and Japan, and proposed as game immersion elements suitable for metabus games.

Studies on the Blood Protein Polymorphisms of the Horses Participated in Seoul Olympic Games (88' 올림픽 참가마필의 혈액단백질형에 관한 연구)

  • Lim Young-Jae;Jeong Jong-Gi;Jeong Byoung-Gon
    • Journal of the korean veterinary medical association
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.292-300
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    • 1992
  • Blood typing of the horses participated in Seoul Olympic Games were analysed through the electroporesis. Blood samples had been collected from the total 234 horses of 32 countries and analyses included albumin, esterase, Xk protein and transferrin types.

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Rehabilitation and Serious Games (재활치료와 기능성게임)

  • Kim, Hwangyong
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.69-73
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    • 2014
  • We pursue pleasure through game but also possibly get positive effects. The serious game is a game that achieves a certain goal by using the positive effects of games. This paper describes the serious game and rehabilitation. Also, it describes the types of medical serious games and actual development condition of serious games for rehabilitation, and suggest ways to inspire utilization of the serious games for rehabilitation.

Development of Medical Rehabilitation Game and Rehabilitation Possibility Using EMG and Gyroscope Signal (근전도 및 자이로스코프 신호를 활용한 의료용 재활게임 개발과 재활치료 가능성)

  • Lim, Jong Heon;Lee, Joon Jae
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.40 no.1
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    • pp.171-182
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    • 2015
  • For fast recovery from physical discomfort and getting back to normal life, many rehabilitation treatments have been performed on patients. Computer games have been one of such treatments that are able to apply to patients effectively. However, because most of such games are locational-based, it is hard to figure out exact medical condition of patients that provide more information to medical doctors. This paper presents a rehabilitation game for patients, which is locational-based as well as rotational-based, who are having external wound or aging diseases by using electromyography signal and gyroscopic sensors. Through this game, we are able to understand how to lead the patients to involve in physical therapy more and how to obtain exact conditions of patients from the games. From several experiments, we found out that our games are able to make patients to increase their physical activity and possibility.

The Extraction of Quality Evaluation Elements for Medical Serious Game (의료용 기능성 게임의 품질평가 요소 추출)

  • Yoon, Seon-Jeong;Ryu, Mi-Young
    • 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.

Development of Serious Game based on Traditional Activities Culture (전통 놀이 문화에 기반한 기능성 게임 개발)

  • Park, Jung-Yong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.117-124
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    • 2011
  • To minimize a negative cognition of the game, recently the game industry has been researched of serious games such as medical game, tutoring game, advertisement and game training simulation game. The development and method of those serious games is far less formalized than other software development and is still in the beginning stages. We will define three types of advertisement games in the paper and propose a serious game development method which is based on traditional activities culture. Also we will explain element technologies and process for developing a serious game and apply a suggested method to YOOT games which is a typical Korea traditional game among several games.