Work / Case study · Originally published 2015

GSK

A five-week boot camp for lung specialists.

Medical education for lung specialists, played as a weekly game.

Client
GSK
Year
2015
Sector
Pharmaceuticals
My role
Concept · Game design · Scriptwriting
Themes
Behaviour, Technology
Sheet
26
Fig. 01
Hand-drawn animation still of the airway mucosa: epithelial and goblet cells, a mucous gland, macrophages, fibroblasts, lymphocytes and smooth muscle, labelled in Finnish.
From the animations: the airway mucosa at cellular level.

For GSK we created a gamified online boot camp for pulmonologists, with a new theme each week, expert videos, and animations of how lungs and medicines work at cellular level.

01My role

Concept with the team. I planned the boot camp game: the gamification, how it all worked and the weekly modules. I also wrote the animation scripts.

Full story

Originally published 2015-07-31

We created a concept for the pharmaceutical company GSK for a five week boot camp for pulmonologists (lung doctors) and implemented it in record time.

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The Pulmonologist Boot Camp was a gamified learning experience, which had a new theme every week and different videos and tasks related to it. By completing tasks and participating in conversations, the boot campers could get points and medals for their achievements.

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Boot Camp week 1 screen: a map of asthma and COPD cases across Europe, the participant’s 17% progress, an Expert level badge and a discussion thread.

Week 1: asthma and COPD around the world.

The virtual camp also featured distinguished speakers on pulmonology, who could tell about the latest phenomena via video.

Professor Neil Barnes

Professor Neil Barnes

We created a set of animations with a professional animator, which showed how lungs function on a cellular level and how pharmaceuticals affect them. It was a personally a surprisingly educational experience to write a film script about cell reactions. I didn’t know I would get such a deep dive into how muscarinic receptors are affected by acetylcholine.

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