CSI-CAST

Using serious games as a form of training and education has been a growing trend. While there has been research into the adaptation of games for training, assessment of user knowledge as a whole for the purpose of creating tailored training content has not been closely examined. We propose a general framework for creating an assessment game and show how Knowledge Assessment can be used to guide the focus of subsequent training modules. Using our framework, we address the frustration and
anxiety expressed by medical and nursing professionals about their lack of training regarding indicators of child physical abuse (CPA) in the United States. We develop the Computer Simulated Interactive Child Abuse Screening Tool (CSI-CAST), which contains scenarios in a serious game and uses assistive AI technologies to assess a group of users and discover features that are important in indicating the users’ collective knowledge identifying CPA. A user study is conducted to show that CSI-CAST is easy to use and it functions to discover specific training needs.

Demonstration:

This video demonstrates the simulation and how a user makes choices at different points in the game. The choices are recorded and used in the subsequent analysis.

Publication:

R. Zhao, C. R. Shelton, M. D. Hetzel-Riggin, J. LaRiccia, G. Louchart, A. Meanor and H. J. Risser.
Knowledge Assessment: Game for Assessment of Symptoms of Child Physical Abuse. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2019), San Luis Obispo, California, USA, August, 2019. [ACM Link]

Poster:

C. R. Shelton, H. J. Risser, M. D. Hetzel-Riggin, R. Zhao, A. Morford, T. J. Riley, T. Eichler.
Assessing the Child Abuse Training Needs of Healthcare Professionals: Pilot Testing the Computer Simulated Interactive Child Abuse Screening Tool (CSI-CAST). The 52nd Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Washington, DC. November, 2018.