Sick Kitty–Toward Promoting Deductive Reasoning Through an Embodied Medical Diagnosis Game

In this paper, we introduce Sick Kitty, a multimodal deductive logic game for primary school children. Sick Kitty situates students as experts with the task of disease diagnosis. They are equipped with a mix of simulated medical tools and a lively stuffed kitty as patient. Sick Kitty is an untraditional method to teach reasoning in classrooms. The main contribution of this work is the design of the multi-modal logic game that promotes scientific reasoning and inquiry. We expect that Sick Kitty will promote the development of deductive reasoning ability for students.