Sheba ARC Healthcare Game Jam

Pediatric Mental Health

Game-Based Behavioral Observation

Design games that capture observable behavior patterns to help clinicians understand how kids respond to challenge, uncertainty, and change.

Dr. Hen Meltzer, Sheba Hospital AI Literacy

Making AI Less of a Black Box for Doctors

Help clinicians build an intuitive mental model of how AI works, including its strengths, limits, and failure modes, through interactive play.

Shifra Samber, CHEO Research Institute Pediatric Inpatient Psychiatry

De-Escalation & Emotional Regulation

Build tools that help children recognize early signs of emotional overwhelm and access calming, evidence-based regulation techniques in the moment they need them most.

Dr. Mariela Mosheva, Sheba Pediatric Psychiatry Pediatric Obesity

Keeping Children Engaged in Obesity Treatment

Design a game that supports motivation, confidence, and daily follow-through for children and families between obesity-treatment appointments.

Prof. Gal Dubnov-Raz, Pediatric Obesity, Sheba Pediatric Oncology

Helping Kids Swallow Pills

Build games that teach pill-swallowing as a skill, reduce anxiety, and reward consistency. Turn one of the hardest moments of the day into something achievable.

Michal Singer, Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Nurse, Sheba Pediatric Surgery

Reducing Pre-Operative Anxiety in Children

Build a child-friendly game that lets children rehearse the surgery journey before the day of surgery, so the real experience feels familiar instead of frightening.

Nurit Michelson, ENT Nurse, Sheba Pediatric ER

Preparing Children for the Hospital Experience

Help children explore the hospital journey as a game before or during a visit, so triage, waiting, exams, imaging, and treatment feel less unknown.

Erez Rechavi, Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology Pediatrics • Procedure Preparation

Pediatric Blood Draw Prep Game

Help children rehearse the sights, sensations, choices, and coping steps of a blood draw before the real procedure.

Tal Sela Pediatrics • Burn Recovery

Skin Healing Quest for Pediatric Burn Recovery

Help children understand skin healing and take an active role in painful, repetitive burn-recovery routines.

Tal Sela Pediatrics • Coping Skills

Coping Skills Practice for Pediatric Procedures

Give children a safe place to learn, compare, and rehearse coping strategies before fear makes them difficult to use.

Tal Sela Pediatrics • Inflammatory Bowel Disease

IBD Explorer for Kids With Crohn's and Colitis

Make inflammation, treatment choices, symptoms, and long-term self-management easier for children with IBD to understand.

Tal Sela Pediatrics • EEG Preparation

EEG Prep Game for Children

Let children rehearse electrode placement, stillness, and the unfamiliar steps of an EEG before the appointment.

Tal Sela Pediatric Vision

Helping Children Through Eye Exams

Create a child-facing game layer that helps children fixate, hold still, and tolerate bright-light eye exams without distracting from the clinician's workflow.

Sharon Blum Meirovitch, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Sheba Ophthalmology • Driving Safety

Functional Vision for Driving Safety

Explore how an immersive driving simulation could measure whether people with eye disease detect and respond to safety-critical events.

Ari Leshno, MD, The Goldschleger Eye Institute, Sheba Pediatric Vestibular Care

Making Vestibular Exams Fun for Kids

Prototype game-like gaze stabilization, head-impulse, or VR target tasks that keep children engaged while clinicians observe eye movement.

Nurit Michelson, Tomer Hazan & Hadas, Sheba advisors Pediatric Occupational Therapy

ADHD Executive Function Training for Daily Life

Build a daily-life mission game that helps children practice stopping, planning, executing, checking, and revising in real-world routines.

Avivit Yochanan, Pediatric Occupational Therapy, Sheba Emergency Simulation Training

Making Choking Training Feel Real

Build an interactive Heimlich maneuver training scenario where a mannequin or simulated patient responds only when the action is done correctly.

Maayan Zalmanson, MSR Tel Hashomer Infection Prevention • Staff Training

Infection Prevention Training Game

Turn hand hygiene and PPE decisions inside a realistic care sequence into repeatable practice with immediate, non-blaming feedback.

Mayan Gilboa and Bella Meehnik, Sheba Pathology • Medical Training

Virtual Grossing Lab

Practice orienting, opening, measuring, and sampling surgical specimens where every cut has consequences.

Gil Goldinger, Pathology Operating Room Training

Surgical Tool Recognition for OR Nurses

Build a 3D matching or tray-prep game that helps new OR staff recognize similar-looking surgical instruments quickly and accurately.

Matan Shteg, Licensed OR Nurse, Sheba Medical Center Pediatric Gastroenterology

Helping Kids Build Toilet-Sitting Routines

Build a positive, non-shaming game that helps children get to the bathroom and practice consistent toilet sitting as part of their care routine.

Tal Berger, Pediatric Gastroenterology Pain Management

CBT and Gentle Movement for Fibromyalgia

Design a respectful game loop that teaches CBT skills and encourages gentle paced movement without pushing patients through pain or fatigue.

Amit Druyan, Rheumatology, Sheba Autism Spectrum

Teaching Social Skills Through Games

Design cooperative games that help kids on the autism spectrum practice social interaction, using play as a bridge for connection, expression, and communication.

Dr. Omer Bar Yosef, Sheba Hospital Immersive Rehab • Track 1

Physical & Cognitive Rehabilitation Games

Design room-scale games where movement is input, space is the interface, and the body is the controller. Target balance, coordination, memory, and more.

Maya Ehrlich & Ilanit Nit, Sheba Rehabilitation Immersive Rehab • Track 2

AI Scenario Creator for Therapists

Build an AI-assisted scenario tool so therapists can generate, adapt, preview, and tune immersive rehab exercises without waiting on a developer or vendor.

Maya Ehrlich & Ilanit Nit, Sheba Rehabilitation Immersive Rehab • Track 3

Motion Tracking for Rehab Games

Prototype camera or sensor-based rehab interactions that respond to reach, stance, balance, repetition quality, or multi-limb coordination.

Maya Ehrlich & Ilanit Nit, Sheba Rehabilitation Physical Rehabilitation

Gesture-Controlled Rehab for Wrist Pain

Build a game controlled by webcam-tracked hand gestures, turning wrist and thumb physiotherapy movements into play that's engaging, measurable, and motivating.

Guy Sheffer, Game Developer • Dr. Gilad Rotem, Hand Surgery Advisor Accessible Gaming & Rehab

Upper-Limb Access and Amputee Rehab Games

Adapt game controls, prosthetic-use practice, or camera-tracked home PT so people with upper-limb disabilities can play and train more comfortably.

Omri Tafla & Matan Belfer, Tiltan / Haifa3D • Dr. Aviram Zailer, Sheba Orthopedics • Patient Preparation

Preparing for Knee Replacement

Help patients connect exercises, home preparation, medication routines, wound care, and realistic recovery expectations before knee-replacement surgery.

Dr. Julian B. Sernik, Orthopedic Surgeon Orthopedics • Surgical Training

Balancing a Knee Replacement

Turn ligament tension, component rotation, and flexion-extension balance into a surgical physics puzzle with multiple defensible approaches.

Dr. Julian B. Sernik, Orthopedic Surgeon ENT • XR Surgical Training

XR Trainer for Microdirect Laryngoscopy

Practice the fixed microscope view, two-handed instrument coordination, lesion removal, and healthy-tissue protection required for microdirect laryngoscopy.

David Yogev, Otolaryngology (ENT) ENT • Surgical Simulation

Temporal Bone Surgery Drill Simulator

Build repeatable drilling practice around complex anatomy while protecting the facial nerve, inner ear, carotid artery, dura, and venous sinuses.

David Yogev, Otolaryngology (ENT) Pediatric Vision

Color Discrimination Training for Children

Build an experimental adaptive game that tests whether playful color-discrimination practice can improve thresholds or compensatory strategies without claiming to cure color blindness.

Ori Tulchinsky Chronic Disease Education

Journey Inside Your Chronic Disease

Help teens understand chronic disease and treatment by exploring a simplified body system, starting with Crohn's disease and visible inflammation.

Ori Tulchinsky Pediatric Pulmonology

Breathe to Play

Use breath as the controller so children can practice the full spirometry sequence: big inhale, seal, blast, keep going, and finish.

Ori Tulchinsky Medical Science Education

Inside the Human Body

Prototype an immune-system exploration game where students interact with cells, antibodies, and inflammatory pathways instead of only memorizing terms.

Ori Tulchinsky Amputee Rehabilitation

Motor-Imagery Gesture Game for Phantom Limb Pain

Turn mirror therapy and motor imagery into a daily gesture game calibrated to the patient's amputation level.

Dr. Abigail Livny-Ezer & Jenya Lerer, C.BIRD Pain Resilience

Cognitive Flexibility Trainer Against Chronic Pain

Build a replayable set-shifting game that trains adaptive problem-solving and supports lightweight longitudinal symptom tracking.

Dr. Abigail Livny-Ezer & Jenya Lerer, C.BIRD MRI Preparation

Scanner-Prep Game for MRI Anxiety

Help children and adults rehearse scanner sounds, stillness, timing, and coping before an MRI scan.

Dr. Abigail Livny-Ezer & Dr. Reut Raizman, C.BIRD Movement Disorders

Objective Tremor Measurement Through Gameplay

Prototype an MR-safe tremor task that can produce comparable scores before, during, and after focused ultrasound treatment.

Dr. Abigail Livny-Ezer & David Mesika, C.BIRD Mental Health

Games to Support PTSD Treatment

Design games that help patients stick with proven therapeutic practices: grounding, journaling, structured routines. Make adherence easier.

TBD, Sheba Hospital