This demo paper presents the VirtuOR multidisciplinary project aiming at leveraging Immersive Virtual Reality for pain management in operative rooms. Addressing the limitations of existing literature, the project proposes an ontology-based framework for designing Immersive Virtual Environments and setting them by anaesthetists. The framework’s key features are discussed, and its practical application is shown through a prototype tailored for patients undergoing specific surgical procedures in operative rooms.

This paper introduces SeriousGXcraft, an innovative XML-based framework for the development of serious games (i.e., their design, implementation, and evaluation). This framework overcomes the limitations of existing ones by leveraging the flexibility of XML and providing a comprehensive and integrated solution. It promotes multidisciplinary collaboration and ensures a harmonious balance between the playful and educational aspects of serious games. By harnessing the capabilities of XML schema, which describes elements related to the target audience, abstract level, concrete level, and actual level, SeriousGXcraft empowers the development team to effectively browse and provide visual support for the complex facets of the serious game development process.

In this paper, we present the current prototype of the CrazySquare Project which is aimed to provide a gamified ICT (Information and Communications Technology) solution for musical education. The project is inspired by Gordon's Musical Learning Theory. It is dedicated to the guitar since it is one of the most played instrument in Italian's Middle Schools. The TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) framework has been used as a way to effectively integrate the technology into teaching activities. Moreover, the CrazySquare project follows an iterative process based on the TEL-oriented UCD approach. Currently, after carrying out an expert-based evaluation with several domain-experts, we are designing the user-based evaluation phase which will conclude the second iteration.