Bachelor Assignment

Transforming a 3D model of a Treatment Center into a serious game for training purposes

In collaboration with the World Health Organisation - Téchne, the scale model of an infectious disease Treatment Center was improved and transformed into a serious game to aid the building team in their training on achieving a more effective facility layout and workflow optimization, focusing on centers for the infectious diseases Ebola, Cholera, and Covid-19. A Treatment Center can be described as a modular hospital, which is erected in the epidemic center of infectious disease outbreaks. As one of the main focusses was for the players to understand how people and resources are moving in Treatment Centers, a versatile, acrylic game board was designed which can be drawn on with whiteboard markers. The game was first exhibited at a conference in Ghana.