Week 4

The team had 1/4 presentation on Monday. We got helpful advice from the faculty, and we decided to go forward with the Virus perspective idea based on the following reasons:

1. it better aligns with our research results to solve the pain point of nurses: forgetful, ambiguous sequence where hand hygiene is not in their top priority, nurses assume their hands are clean and safe due to the invisibility of virus and germs, access barriers.
2. This is a fun and humorous way which will not talk down and humiliate nurses
3. Better perspective to create an experience based on sceience.

Therefore we chose the Virus perspective to keep developing.

Here are our education moments featured in our experience:

• shake hands with patient’s friend/family
• before eating&drinking
• touch mobile phone
• after taking off gloves
• exiting the room
• touch pen
• touch keyboard
• elevator button

These moments are those moments when nurses are mostly likely to neglect hand hygiene protocols, and we want to focus on these moments instead of iterating on what nurses’ve already known. These moments are coming from our client info, nurse interviews, and nurse training videos.

Since our target audience are nurses who do not have much experience with games. Therefore we want to keep the player’s control as simple as possible: spacebar to jump, and click buttons.

Here is our detailed storyline:

For future potential game mechanics:

The virus could have two endings: virus get wiped off with nurses washing hands, and the nurse gets a thank you note from patients; virus infect enough people in the hospital and follow the nurses to the home. There are will be more choices for virus.

We also want to instruct nurses on hand hygiene instructions, like washing hands for 30s and washing the back of the hands. So there are will be more interaction with virus in the future.

1. Show the good result of hand hygiene
2. Disgusting mutation of virus
3. Branching narrative: – family sad ending – nurse thank you note
4. Choices –  hand hygiene well nurse
5. How many people infected
6. Virus eyes moving animation

We are agreed to making an experience with gaming elements instead of making a pure game.