eBug

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e-Bug

• Using web based games to educate about
  appropriate antibiotic usage

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Project Background

• e-Bug is a European wide, DG SANCO funded,
  antibiotic and hygiene teaching resource for
  junior and senior school children.
• There are 17 countries involved in e-Bug covering
  62 of the European population.
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Project Aims

• To compliment national antibiotic and hygiene
  educational campaigns
• Develop an antibiotic and hygiene teaching pack
  website with online games for both junior and
  senior schools
• Translate and implement the pack across
  associated countries in close collaboration with
  local Ministries of Health and Education
• Evaluation of use and impact of pack and website.
• Disseminate and market the e-Bug resource to
  collaborating partner countries

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Project Outputs

• Earlier research found the optimal age targets
  for e-Bug to be 9-12 year olds and 13-15 year
  olds.
• e-Bug will produce two packs, targeting each age
  group with an appropriate level of detail.
• Similarly, there will be two online, web based
  games that will appeal to each audience and cover
  the same learning outcomes as the physical packs.

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Research to Date

• Existing curricula across Europe was examined
  with help from teacher focus groups to identify
  the level of detail and difficultly appropriate
  for each age group.
• Project partners and medical experts worked to
  identify the key messages and learning outcomes
  that e-Bug will deliver.
• Pack and game ideas were suggested and work
  shopped with teachers, project partners and
  pupils.
• The pack content has been fully evaluated and the
  final pack is being prepared.

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e-Bug Games

• There will be two, age appropriate games
  developed.
• We conducted focus groups and desk research to
  identify the types of play experience enjoyed by
  each group.
• This resulted in us designing two very different
  games that cover the same core content, in
  different ways.

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e-Bug Junior Game

• We found that younger pupils enjoyed games that
  are aggregated on gaming portals like Kongregate.
  
• One popular style of gameplay was the Platform
  Game a gaming style shown by games such as the
  Super Mario Brothers.
• Pupils also expressed an interest in TV Game
  Shows such as Who Wants to be a Millionaire and
  their online game equivalents.

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Game Style

• Game style encompasses two genres of game
• Platform game
• fast action
• very interactive
• can experiment and see results
• popular amongst age group
• Quiz game
• highlights purpose and key elements of levels
• reinforces learning
• assesses learning

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Game Process

• Cover each of the LO's in one "round" of
  gameplay.
• A round consists of a pre and post question and
  answer session followed by a platform game
  elelement
• One 'round' features a different style of game
  because platform game wasn't suitable

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Game Process
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Introduction to Microbes

• Player photographs bugs one type at a time

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Introduction to Microbes

• Bugs are different sizes
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Introduction to Microbes

• Bugs are shown in different locations

Inside the body
On the skins surface
In the kitchen
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Mechanics

• Good and Bad Microbes
• Good microbes can keep us healthy
• Bacteria can be put to good use
• Sometimes microbes make us ill

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Good and Bad Microbes

• Good bugs hurt bad bugs and stop them entering
  body 
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Good and Bad Microbes

• Player transports lactobacillus to make yogurt

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Mechanics

• Hand, Respiratory and Food Hygiene
• Infection can be spread through unclean hands
• Hand washing can prevent the spread of infection
• Infection can be spread through sneezing and
  coughing
• Sneezing or coughing in your hand can still
  spread infection
• Microbes can be found on our food and can
  transfer to humans
• Cooking food properly can kill harmful microbes

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Hygiene

• The food sorting game is used to show hand,
  respiratory and respiratory hygiene.

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Antibiotics and Vaccine Use

• Antibiotics and Vaccine Use
• Most common infections get better on their own
  through time, rest, liquid intake and healthy
  living
• If antibiotics are taken, it is important to
  finish the course
• Vaccines prevent a range of infections
• There are not vaccines for all infections

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Antibiotics and Vaccine Use

• Player throws white blood cells
• Player delivers full course of antibiotics to
  infection

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Evaluation Plans

• We will be evaluating the game experience between
  now and January.
• Changes will be made in January and February 09
• Formal evaluation of the effectiveness will begin
  in March 09
• Focus groups will be used
• We will use the game show elements of the game to
  capture player performance data to see if
  questions are answered differently after playing
  a level.

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Senior Game

• The process for designing the senior game is
  similar to that of the junior game.
• The game design is similar to that of Phoenix
  Wright, a popular detective game available on the
  Nintendo DS
• In the game, the player explores a crime scene
  narrative, interviewing characters and finding
  evidence that illuminates their understanding of
  microbes, hygiene and antibiotics.

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Characters Big C

• Big C (boss of e-Bug)

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Characters Alyx

• Alyx (scientist coworker)
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Character Heracles Samson

• Heracles (bodyguard to actors)

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Characters Hugh Gaego

• Hugh Gaego (actor)

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Jamie Grimesworth

• Jamie Grimesworth (chef)
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