USMA Participates on the Future of Army Medicine

Dr. Michael Matthews participated in a panel held in Herndon, Virginia, sponsored by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command's (USAMRMC) Principal Assistant for Research and Technology (PART) on the future of Army medicine. The panel's discussions focused on social and cultural factors that will affect Army medicine in the next 5 to 20 years. The Engineering Psychology program recently invited Dr. Talbot, the Principal Medical Expert at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and associate research professor at Keck School of Medicine of USC, to talk with cadets about the ways games can be successfully - and unsuccessfully - implemented as tools for learning and training. These successful and unsuccessful designs helped the cadets and faculty understand where game technology had come from, how it had improved over the years, where it has been leveraged to great success, and where some promises of technology might be overstated or unnecessary. This talk yielded a great discussion about the ways in which games might be used as research and training tools moving forward, providing unique experiences across many domains.