Serious games against musculoskeletal disorders: Safe@Work
First of all, this project aims to create serious games to teach and prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) through virtual reality.
Thus, three parameters structure the innovative aspects of the project.
- First, the serious game approach must solicit the visual and sound sensory and cognitive capacities of the learners. The challenge is to manage to facilitate learning, so that it is sustainable, and to develop good gestural and postural practices.
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- Thirdly, this approach has the advantage of responding to an awareness at the individual level, so that each learner becomes an actor of his health, through the Serious Game.
Project status: University / company request awaiting ANRT feedback.
Project leader : Mohsen Zare, ELLIADD-ERCOS
Participant: Thibaud HULIN, University of Franche-Comté, France
Laboratory: ELLIADD – Editions, Languages, Literature, Computers, Arts, Didactics, Speeches
Serious games to raise awareness of risk situations for the sustainable prevention of occupational health: Mobicampus
On the other hand, in line with the previous project, the MOBICAMPUS project includes a Serious Game action over the period 2020-2023.
Project members
Mohsen Zare – Project leader
Thibaud Hulin – Participant
Bernard Mignot – Participation in the project
Thomas Rivière – Participation in the project
Partners
MOBICAMPUS Professions and Qualifications Campus, By Courses and By Themes (90-Belfort)
Funding
200 k€, including 50 k€ for ELLIADD financed the PIA3 investment plan as part of the "Pedagogical Innovation Territories" scheme of the call for projects (2019) for the Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications
Why serious games against MSDs?
Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) are conditions that can affect the muscles, joints and tendons. Indeed, they are frequent in professional environments and can cause chronic pain and temporary or permanent disabilities. Thus, MSDs can also have serious consequences on the quality of life of people who are affected. Therefore, we need to put in place prevention strategies to limit the risks of developing these disorders.
For their part, serious games are games that have an educational or training objective. They can be used to teach skills, educate players about health or safety issues, or help them make decisions. In addition, serious games are used today in the sectors of education, health, safety, human resources, etc. They are often based on realistic scenarios and may use advanced technologies, such as virtual reality or augmented reality, to provide an immersive experience for players.
However, by using serious games to prevent MSDs, we want to offer the people concerned an interactive and fun experience to learn good gestural and postural practices, in a virtual environment that makes it possible to simulate different contexts of use. This approach makes it possible to make individuals aware of their health, by making them actors in their own prevention of MSDs.
