Project and Preliminary Evaluation of VR-MED, a Domain-Specific Language for Serious Games in Family Medicine Teaching
João Batista Mossmann, Rafael Rieder, Cecília Dias Flores, Márcio Sarroglia Pinho · 2016
Serious games can be used for training in different areas, like Education and Medicine. In these contexts, it is hard to define game-based learning environments, because this process requires intensive interaction between experts and developers in order to establish common, comprehensible and reusable elements for different projects by both professionals. A domain-specific language (DSL) tends to solve some modelling problems such as the creation and documentation of rules and the reuse of components. This paper presents VR-MED, a graphical DSL prototype for serious games, focused on teaching of Family Medicine. Using a visual notation, developers and healthcare professionals can create simple games based on textual medical cases. A preliminary study shows VR-MED as an adequate DSL to represent Family Medicine elements in a serious game, and that it can be extended to support new medical cases.