Cyber Chronix, Participatory Research Approach to Develop and Evaluate a Storytelling Game on Personal Data Protection Rights and Privacy Risks

Abstract

This paper describes the participatory approach chosen to develop and evaluate a new serious game called Cyber Chronix developed in the format of a digital comic strip with storytelling branches. The aim of the story entitled "Finding Data" is to raise awareness about the privacy risks and the data protection rights in the new European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), whilst delivering a pleasant and enjoyable experience. In the evaluation phase, students acted as assessors with the assignment of looking at the key factors contributing to engage in reading, to enhance curiosity and to raise awareness of EU GDPR concepts. Here we report on how students perceived the different dimensions of the story and how the game can help to disseminate knowledge of EU GDPR rights and raise awareness of privacy risks.

Implications of digital risks on teachers' motivation and intention to use digital tools: a PLS-POS perspective in Romanian preuniversity education system

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“…In the specialized literature, risks are found under various dimensions, but for our research, we considered four categories as essential in digital pedagogy. The most relevant risks for our analysis are as follows: SER (Di Gioia et al, 2019;Baeva, 2021;Crepax et al, 2022), SOR (Kuznetsova and Azhmukhamedov, 2020;Sorokoumova et al, 2021), OBR (Bencsik et al, 2022) and HER (Kuznetsova and Azhmukhamedov, 2020; Ma ˛kosa, 2013) (see Appendix).…”

Children designing privacy warnings: Informing a set of design guidelines

“…This reintroduces the problem of consistency, not only with the educator's attitude towards privacy, but also with the materials and approaches used to educate the children. There have been several attempts to provide privacy-related materials that are child-friendly and effective (Di Gioia et al, 2019, Knijnenburg and Cherry, 2016, Zhang-Kennedy, Baig, and Chiasson, 2017.…”

Development of Teacher Digital Competence in the Area of E-Safety through Educational Video Games

“…Several studies have examined the use of educational video games to teach issues related to e-safety to students of different educational levels and citizens without a specific profile [47][48][49][50][51][52][53], obtaining quite positive results overall. However, the existing evidence about the effectiveness of educational video game-based learning for the development of teachers' digital competence in the area of e-safety is very limited.…”