Glimpse
Web Dashboard
Glimpse (Game
to Learn Important Communication Methods
for Patient Safety Enhancement) is a web-based, transmedia
game and storytelling platform designed to teach healthcare professionals
strategies for improving ineffective inter-professional communications that can
impact patient safety.
Developed by the University of Texas at Dallas, Glimpse introduces
an educational curriculum through episodic narrative and gameplay. Players are
afforded opportunities to learn about and experiment with situational awareness
and power-gradient barriers that harm effective communications. Players learn
from feedback on game choices by using a “glimpse” mechanic to gain insight
into a character’s behavior.
In Glimpse you gain or lose points
depending on how well you communicate.
Individual and team performances are scored
and displayed on a web dashboard to foster game competition.
The game is intended for physicians and nurses
who work together in a hospital. Perspective sharing in the game allows nurses
to play as physicians and vice-versa so that they get a glimpse into each
other’s roles and learn to adapt their styles accordingly.
Glimpse was selected
as a finalist in the 2013 Serious Game Showcase and Challenge in the
Business Category, one of the seven award categories of the SGS&C, at the
2013 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
(I/ITSEC) held in Orlando, FL, December 2013.