Serious Games
&
Learning Tools
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Serious games are games designed to extend beyond entertainment in order to address serious goals, such as health- or learning-related goals (Becker, 2021 [external link]). This page details serious games in Maura’s portfolio. Please feel free to contact Maura with any questions or collaboration requests.
CLEARLY!
A Clear/Loud Speech Game for Parkinson’s Disease
Players with Parkinson’s disease and their teammates unite as they compete to communicate loud and CLEARLY!
Team Members & Roles:
Maura Philippone - Narrative Designer
Madeline Allen (external link) - UX Designer
Jesse Sanderson (external link) - Graphic Designer
Adam Elfawal (external link) - Game Developer
⭐ CLEARLY! uses a pink-green color scheme to accommodate tritanopia, or blue-yellow colorblindness, which is the most prevalent colorblindness subtype in Parkinson’s disease (Birch et al., 1998 [external link]).
CN Vision
Co-Creators & Roles:
Maura Philippone — Narrative Designer, Instructional Designer, Graphic Designer
Jesse Sanderson (external link) — UX/UI Designer, Graphic Designer, Animator
🧠 Envision enhanced cranial nerve learning with CN Vision! This novel, gamified cranial nerve review tool uses augmented reality (AR) technology to bolster students' neuroanatomy knowledge application in real-world contexts.
⭐ To learn more about how CN Vision works and how to use it, visit our page on the Michigan State University Transforming Tools Together lab website (external link)!