This half-day workshop aims to introduce partners and participants to new uses of virtual world applications for solving health challenges. Examples of training packages for health workers, major incident training and public policy uses are showcased, and participants are invited to contribute to developing a road map for serious games and virtual worlds in health contexts. The aim is to produce a map of activities and an applied research agenda for the partners to follow over the next five years.
Participants will include industrial and academic partners aiming to work with the SGI in the hub area of health, participants aiming to get an introduction to the uses of serious games and virtual worlds for health, prospective partners and health practitioners, policy makers in the field of health and innovating practice.
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