Warning: Playing these videogames may be good for your health
The following is an excerpt of an article by Nick Wingfield
Originally published October 23rd in The Wall Street Journal
In some cases, health-care providers are the target audience for games. One is Pulse!!, a training game that will allow civilian and military health-care professionals to practice their clinical skills, including during catastrophes like bioterrorism attacks. Pulse!! is being developed by BreakAway Ltd. of Hunt Valley, Md., on Texas A&M University's Corpus Christi campus with $4.3 million in federal grant money from the Navy's Office of Naval Research.
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Advances in the state of the art have caused us to closely examine not just the games themselves but the technology behind the game…we are on the threshold of a breakthrough that has the potential to have a major impact on how we train.
Empower the average subject-matter expert to design and build their own custom simulations, to explore and experiment with their most mission-critical ideas and concepts?
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