Table 1.

Details of included papers.

Author	Title	Transfer classa	Fidelity and transfer rationale	Year
Dankbaar, Alsma, Jansen, Van Merrienboer, Van Saase, and Schuit [12]	An experimental study on the effects of a simulation game on students’ clinical cognitive skills and motivation	First	Low fidelity, reducing cognitive load	2016
Kuipers, Wartena, Dijkstra, Terlouw, van T Veer, Van Dijk, Prins, and Pierie [13]	iLift: A health behavior change support system for lifting and transfer techniques to prevent lower-back injuries in healthcare	First	Low-road transfer, skill automatization, metaphorical	2016
Jalink, Gores, Heineman, Pierie, and Ten Cate Hoedemaker [14]	Face validity of a Wii U video game for training basic laparoscopic skills	First	Low-road transfer, skill automatization, metaphorical	2015
Connors, Chrastil, Sanchez, and Merabet [15]	Action video game play and transfer of navigation and spatial cognition skills in adolescents who are blind	First	Low-road transfer, spatial recognition	2014
Rosenberg, Baughman, and Bailenson [16]	Virtual superheroes: using superpowers in virtual reality to encourage prosocial behavior	Second	Figural, metaphorical	2013
Schrader and Bastiaens [17]	The influence of virtual presence: effects on experienced cognitive load and learning outcomes in educational computer games	First	Low fidelity, reducing cognitive load	2012
De Freitas and Dunwell [18]	Understanding the representational dimension of learning: the implications of interactivity, immersion and fidelity on the development of serious games	Second	Figural, metaphorical	2012
Knoll and Moar [19]	The space of digital health games	Blended	Locative, situational	2012
Rooney [20]	A theoretical framework for serious game design: exploring pedagogy, play, and fidelity and their implications for the design process	Blended, both	Abstraction, situational	2012
Toups, Kerne, and Hamilton [21]	The team coordination game: zero-fidelity simulation abstracted from fire emergency response practice	Second	Nonmimetic, abstraction	2011
Hochmitz and Yuviler-Gavish [22]	Physical fidelity versus cognitive fidelity training in procedural skills acquisition	First	Cognitive fidelity, skill acquisition	2011
Stone [23]	The (human) science of medical virtual learning environments	First	Cost reduction	2011
Wood, Beckmann, and Birney [24]	Simulations, learning, and real world capabilities	First	Low fidelity, execution skills, reducing cognitive load	2009
Markovic, Petrovic, Kittl, and Edegger [25]	Pervasive learning games: a comparative study	First	Situational	2007
Alessi [26]	Fidelity in the design of instructional simulations	Both	Varying fidelity under conditions	1988

^aRefers to the aspired transfer type described or sought after with the game-like intervention.