Degge Group / National Institutes of Health

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Challenge:

LFS was tasked, in partnership with the Degge Group, with creating a developmentally appropriate educational multimedia CD-ROM for the National Institutes of Health to teach 12-17 year-olds with solid tumors (and their families and friends) about cancer, its treatment, side effects, and how to personally cope with their illness.

Solution:

Audio, video, 3-D graphics, interactive games, animation, music and games were incorporated to engage users in dynamic interactive news magazines, where several teenage individuals with personal treatment experience act as news correspondents covering key aspects of solid tumors.

Result:

The CD-ROM provides an interesting “edutainment” way to learn about solid tumors. Before the creation of the “Conquering Cancer Network”, no such interactive tool existed to empower adolescents to deal with the realities of their illness and teach them about solid tumors, the treatments, late effects, coping skills and future issues. The product entered the market in Spring of 2005 and has turned into a sizable success for the National Institutes of Health. To download the TUMOR-NATOR game click here (10 MB .exe).

Services Provided:

• Animation
• Programming
• Information architecture
• Character and medical illustration
• Section logos
• Video
• Game development