Guidelines for an effective design of serious games

Catalano, Chiara Eva; Luccini, Angelo Marco; Mortara, Michela

doi:10.17083/ijsg.v1i1.8

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“…1 shows a workflow for effectively modding tabletop games for educational contexts. This workflow synthesises previous serious game development models [4,5,[17][18][19], incorporating guidelines aimed at educators [13,20], with a particular focus on tabletop GBL [6] and modding [12]. It further enhances previous research by categorising the steps by pedagogic and/or game design expertise and including gameplay loop analysis [21] as a method to map learning mechanics to game mechanics [22] in order to inform both choice and adaptation of games.…”

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confidence: 98%

Modding Tabletop Games for Education

Abbott

2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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This paper describes a learning-objective-centric workflow for modifying ('modding') existing tabletop games for educational purposes. The workflow combines existing research for serious games design with novel systematic analysis techniques for learning and game mechanics and gameplay loops to improve the understanding and rigour of the process. A detailed worked example applies the workflow to the development of a serious tabletop game with the educational goal of increasing knowledge and confidence of performing postgraduate literature reviews. Systematic application of the workflow to a real example supports the value of this approach and provides a useful template for educators to follow for increasing the quality and feasibility of self-designed serious games.

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Modding Tabletop Games for Education

Abbott

2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Serious games have demonstrated a significant potential in industrial education and training disciplines [22], [23], [24], given that organizations care for players' privacy and working atmosphere and especially do not use gaming data for appraisal or selection purposes, and clearly communicate this to employees [? ].…”

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A Serious Game for Eliciting Social Engineering Security Requirements

Beckers

Pape

2016

2016 IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)

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Abstract-Social engineering is the acquisition of information about computer systems by methods that deeply include nontechnical means. While technical security of most critical systems is high, the systems remain vulnerable to attacks from social engineers. Social engineering is a technique that: (i) does not require any (advanced) technical tools, (ii) can be used by anyone, (iii) is cheap.Traditional security requirements elicitation approaches often focus on vulnerabilities in network or software systems. Few approaches even consider the exploitation of humans via social engineering and none of them elicits personal behaviours of individual employees. While the amount of social engineering attacks and the damage they cause rise every year, the security awareness of these attacks and their consideration during requirements elicitation remains negligible.We propose to use a card game to elicit these requirements, which all employees of a company can play to understand the threat and document security requirements. The game considers the individual context of a company and presents underlying principles of human behaviour that social engineers exploit, as well as concrete attack patterns. We evaluated our approach with several groups of researchers, IT administrators, and professionals from industry.

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“…In the design of the interactive e-book with an embedded educational game, there are several important principles: immersive storylines, goals based on targeted skills to be taught, feedback about progress, progressing through levels of difficulty, individualization, and provision of choice [38], [39], [40]. These studies showed that learning opportunities need to be integrated with the story content, a narrative needs to be built to support learning goals and encourage players to develop emotional connection with the characters, so that they will be motivated for learning.…”

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An interactive E-book with an educational game for children with developmental disorders: A pilot user study

Pištoljević

Hulusić

2017

2017 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games)

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Abstract-Children diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as one of the most complex neurodevelopmental disabilities, are characterized by different brain and functioning development, distinct interaction with the environment and different learning patterns, language and social skills impairments, and repetitive auto-stimulating restricting behaviors. It has been shown that computer-assisted intervention is much more attention captivating and interesting to children compared with a classic approach to teaching, allowing for faster acquisition of skills. This makes these tools and the technology highly suitable for teaching children with autism basic developmental skills. In addition, interactive electronic books showed positive outcomes for comprehension and information acquisition in children with ASD, while decreasing inappropriate children behavior in the classroom. In this paper a pilot user study on an e-book with an embedded educational game for children with developmental disorders was presented. The results show that the e-book can be efficiently used for teaching children with ASD basic developmental skills and that the learned skills can be efficiently transfered to new media and environments. The framework will provide preschool children with and without disabilities with appropriate educational software, to build up their early cognitive abilities and school readiness skills, and promote incorporating technology as part of the educational and pedagogical process in schools.

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Guidelines for an effective design of serious games

Cited by 77 publications

References 17 publications

Modding Tabletop Games for Education

Modding Tabletop Games for Education

A Serious Game for Eliciting Social Engineering Security Requirements

An interactive E-book with an educational game for children with developmental disorders: A pilot user study

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