This presentation explores the impact of technology on the delivery of health services and medical training and development from 1963 into the future. It draws the conclusion that the use of these technologies for the training and development of medical professionals will not be adequate to meet the challenges of present day society, especially key issues such as obesity and dementia. It argues that the emerging technologies of sensor networks and data visualisation offer the potential to reshape the management and delivery of health and wellbeing so that it is shifted towards the responsibility of individual citizens and new providers with little or no medical training.

1. Immersive Learning and Serious Games
for Medical Education
Segamed 2013

2. Many health solutions for training,
diagnosis, prevention, treatment

3. A different perspective
based on changes in delivery of
health services over 60 years
1963 2013 2023?

4. Today's Key Message
You ain't seen nothing yet!
Immersive Technologies, Serious Games and "Gamification"
are likely to play a vital role in addressing some of the most
important challenges in healthcare and society.

5. What is Gamification?

6. Gamification?

7. Gamification?

8. Gamification?

9. Gamification?

10. Gamification?

11. Gamification?

12. Gamification?

13. Gamification ?

14. Spectators finance games and are
affected by them but they have little
influence on the outcome of games

15. Players actively seek to influence
the outcome of the game

16. Games Masters change the rules
and mechanics to shape the
outcome of games - they are the
most powerful influences

17. Can you imagine a world without
computers, phones and cars ?

18. The Way we Were
Teachers transferred knowledge
We knew all our neighbours
We rarely travelled outside our community
Banks were banks, Grocers were grocers
We built a career in the same company
We dated and married within our community
Individual Choice and Power was limited

19. Games and Simulations helped
shape our development and
interests

20. Society was Hierarchical,
Structured and Regulated -
Knowledge was Power

21. Knowledge Professionals with years of
training were the sole service providers in
education, health, law........

22. Digital Technologies Changed
Everything

23. From search engines and simple
quizzes and decision tree games

24. To advanced realistic simulations

25. Knowledge and skills became
instantly accessible 24/7

26. The Way we Are Today
Teachers are coaches and mentors
We know none of our neighbours
We travel and live outside our community
Record companies become airlines, Grocers become
banks
We change jobs and companies often
We date via the Internet and don't marry
Individual Choice and Power is unlimited

27. Today's Society is Networked and
Asymmetric

28. Now we have personal agents
like this ...

29. With innovative interfaces

30. Science fiction soon becomes
reality

31. Delivering immersive experiences
aids learning

32. The Networked Society
The unprecedented levels of choice and power
delivered to every citizen by technology makes us
the most connected society in history yet there is
a disconnect between choice and consequence,
power and accountability and rights and
responsibilities.
It is this disconnect which creates many of the
challenges we face

33. Society today faces many
challenges e.g Obesity and
Ageing Society

34. Games and Simulations train,
orientate and assess staff

35. Casual games can help develop
or maintain cognitive skills and
mental agility

36. They also try to encourage
behavioural change

37. Encouraging Exercise

38. Technology supports Reflective,
Personalised, Adaptive Learning
and "Wisdom of the Crowd"

39. Innovative Interface Devices aid
Diagnosis and Treatment

40. We are on the threshold of a new era of
Gamification and embedded pervasive
games that could transform society

41. Society will not have the resources to
support ageing population and
lifestyle related health issues

42. Technology can transform spectators
into players by removing barriers and
adding motivators

43. Visualisation of sensor data tracking our lives
linked to games and simulations will provide the
feedback and control mechanisms that will
reconnect our society

44. In the UK pilot schemes are in progress
to use gyms to treat obese patients as a
cost effective alternative to gastric
surgery

45. European Projects like DOREMI will
explore games and sensor technologies
that support independent living

46. Transforming myself from Spectator to
Player by Gamification of my Obesity
Challenge

47. Monitoring and Managing health
through sensors, games and social
networks

48. Empowering Citizens and creating new
business opportunities and models to
build a more sustainable future

49. Competition or Collaboration?

50. The Book
www.gadgetstogodbook.com

51. Immersive Learning and Serious Games
for Medical Education - Thanks for
Listening