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Designing Compelling Medical Games “Designing Compelling Medical Games” is a workshop about the design process. Think of a “cooking school” where the secrets behind each dish (the game) are learned, versus a “cooking class” where the chef demonstrates how to prepare the dish. We will focus on the “why” more than the “how”, a nd participants will have the opportunity to experiment as they create their own compelling game!
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Speaker Profile Sowmya Ramachandran, MD Dr. Ramachandran is research scientist at Stottler Henke Associates, a small business dedicated to providing innovative Artificial Intelligence solutions to real-world problems. Dr. Ramachandran's interests focus on intelligent training and education technology including intelligent tutoring and intelligent synthetic agents for simulations. She is also interested in issues of motivation and metacognition. Experience with military and private industry gives Dr. Ramachandran a unique perspective on the needs and requirements of the ultimate end-users and their constraints. She contributes expertise in AI, instructional systems, probabilistic reasoning, and knowledge management. She has developed ITSs for a range of topics including reading comprehension, high-school Algebra, helicopter piloting, and healthcare domains. She has participates in workshops organized by the Learning Federation, a division of the Federation of American Scientists, to lay out a roadmap for critical future research and funding in the area of ITSs and virtual patient simulations. She has developed a general-purpose authoring framework for rapid development of ITSs, which is currently being used to develop an intelligent tutor for process control and a tutor for first responders. |