Code Red: Triage. Or, COgnition-Based DEsign Rules Enhancing Decisionmaking TRaining in a Game Environment

Serious games have a great potential for training and educating people in novel and engaging ways. However, little empirical research has been done on the effectiveness of serious games and, although early findings do point in a moderately positive direction, even less is known about why some games succeed in effectively educating while others donpsilat. We therefore propose a serious game, Code Red: Triage, which is designed to empirically test a number of cognition-based design guidelines in the context of crisis management training. Our purpose is to come to a set of design guidelines through empirical experiments that enhance the instructional design of serious games and can be used in the development of future games.