Section: Dissemination

Popularization

The Carmen team has responded to a call of Cap'Maths in 2014 on dissemination and popularization of mathematics destined for young pupils, the general public, and (future) mathematical professionals. For this project, G. Ravon and Y. Coudière developed a serious game called Heart Attack. The game is destined for middle and high school students as an introduction to mathematical modeling. The principal goal of the game is to illustrate the notion of numerical modeling in medical research, and in particular in cardiac rhythmology. The player takes the role of a scientist having developed a numerical model for the electrical activity of the heart and tries to learn how to prevent an arrhythmia. A secondary goal is to teach about the electrical activation mechanism of the heart.

Integrating scientific simulations in an interactive website is challenging because of the constraints imposed by a web-based framework. As a result of this project we have learned a great deal about such developement and about the collaboration with professional web developers.