Degree Name

MFA (Master of Fine Arts)

Program

Digital Media

Date of Award

8-2024

Committee Chair or Co-Chairs

Todd Emma

Committee Members

Gregory Marlow, Jacy Richardson

Abstract

For the last five years, East Tennessee State University’s Department of Digital Media has partnered with the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in downtown Knoxville to create a collection of training modules for their nursing staff. Dozens of students have devoted thousands of hours both inside and outside of the department’s various production courses to build the eleven modules currently in use today. However, development has not been without its hurdles, particularly in moving from one project to the next. Poor documentation and miscommunications compounded with faults in the projects’ design philosophies to repeatedly delay production. While each deliverable was playable by the end of the given semesters, there were often bugs and other quality issues left unaddressed. Luckily, graduate assistants and interns were brought on to help direct students in class, and to finish the projects on off-semesters. As one of those graduate assistants, I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside Stephanie Nicely, our project manager and hospital liaison to build on the works of past developers, assist in managing the development of current projects, and lay groundwork for future growth.

Document Type

Culminating Experience

Copyright

Copyright by the authors.

ETCH Trach & Vent VR Simulation_Gameplay Demo.mp4 (146575 kB)
Lessons Learned Over a Growing Development Cycle in Medical Simulation MP4 download

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