Case Studies: BLSD and Surgical Checklist

In this Chapter, we describe the design and development of low-cost solutions, exploiting Microsoft Kinect ™ and 3D graphics, for two specific use cases: the simulation of the Basic Life Support Defibrillation (BLSD-S) and Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC-S) procedures. These prototypes have been designed with the aim to propose innovative pedagogical models. The main goal is to provide trainees with realistic activities to be performed during the simulation that must then be reproduced in the real experience. Gamification techniques and role-playing are used to engage trainees with well-defined roles of medical teams. The systems can be easily set-up and deployed in different spatial arrangements (part of this chapter previously appeared in Ferracani et al. (Proceedings of the 2014 ACM international workshop on serious games. ACM Inc., pp 27–32, 2014 [1]) \(\copyright \)2014 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Reprinted by permission; and in Ferracani et al. (Univ Access Inf Soc 14(3):351–362, 2015 [2]) with permission of Springer.).