Theoretical background of the game design element "chatbot" in serious games for medical education.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The use of virtual patients enables learning medical history taking in a safe environment without endangering patients' safety. The use of a chatbot embedded in serious games provides one way to interact with virtual patients. In this sense, the chatbot can be understood as a game design element, whose implementation should be theory driven and evidence based. Since not all game design elements are already connected to theories, this study aimed to evaluate whether the game design element chatbot addresses the need for autonomy rooted in the self-determination theory.

Method

A cross-sectional study was conducted to compare two distinct chat systems integrated in serious games with one system being an open chatbot and the other system being a constrained chat syste

SUBMITTER: Aster A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11905647 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature