Academic project
Death Rate – Outbreak: a serious game about pandemics
Research into a public-policy serious game exploring decisions and consequences in epidemic spread.
Death Rate – Outbreak
This research project (2020–2021) proposed a serious game to explore factors affecting epidemic and pandemic spread. Players would act as public administrators, making simulated decisions on healthcare, education, public safety, and economic policies under infectious-disease scenarios.
The proposal considered variables such as transmission, case fatality, and healthcare-system capacity, illustrating potential consequences of different prevention and response strategies. Its educational aim was to help explain the interdependence and limitations of public-policy decisions, not to claim validated accuracy in modelling a specific pandemic.
According to additional information supplied for this editorial review, the project led to an undergraduate research supervision and a final-year undergraduate project. No individual document or citation has been linked to these outputs in this version, and no quantitative results for the game's educational effectiveness are claimed.
Team recorded in Lattes: Jefferson Oliveira Andrade (responsible researcher), Karin Satie Komati, Daniel Ribeiro Trindade, and André Altivo de Oliveira.