ABC Radio Australia
A computer game designed to help young people recognise the dangers of landmines and unexploded ordinance has just undergone initial testing in Cambodia. The developers from Michigan State University in the U-S say they hope the game will cut the number of children killed and maimed each year.
Presenter: Robert Carmichael
Speakers: Professor Frank Biocca, MIND Lab, Michigan State University; Allen Tan, Country Head, Golden West Humanitarian Trust; Lai, a child testing the game
Listen: Windows MediaCARMICHAEL: You might guess from the tinny music and excited chatter that you are listening to a group of children playing a computer game. Here they are looking for food for their on-screen pet dog in a Cambodian landscape that is dotted with the occasional red warning sign.
Every so often, if they aren't careful, you will hear this sound.
The boom is the sound of a landmine exploding. The whistle is from a Cambodian deminer who pops up on the screen to explain what they did wrong. In short, the player missed one of the red warning signs that dot Cambodia's real landscape, and stood on a landmine.
In the game the children get another chance - in fact they get as many as they want. In real life, things don't work out that way.
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