Papyrus for gamers, let's play modeling

Abstract

Gamification refers to the exploitation of gaming mechanisms for serious purposes, like learning hard-to-train skills such as modeling. We present a gamified version of Papyrus, the well-known open source modeling tool. Instructors can use it to easily create new modeling games (including the tasks, solutions, levels, rewards...) to help students learning any specific modeling aspect. The evaluation of the game components is delegated to the GDF gamification framework that bidirectionally communicates with the Papyrus core via API calls. Our gamified Papyrus includes as well a game dashboard component implemented with HTML/CSS/-Javascript and displayed thanks to the integration of a web browser embedded in an Eclipse view. CCS CONCEPTS • Software and its engineering → Software design engineering; • Applied computing → Education;

The relationship between fun and the overall score of the MEEGA360 scale

“…PapyGame [2] is a gami ed software, developed to help master degree students in Computer Science in learning speci c modeling aspects using Papyrus for UML [Bucchiarone et al, 2020]. This has been possible by extending the Papyrus [3] modeling tool with gami cation features. See Bucchiarone and colleagues [Bucchiarone et al, 2021, Bucchiarone et al, 2020 for further informations on PapyGame.…”

“…This has been possible by extending the Papyrus [3] modeling tool with gami cation features. See Bucchiarone and colleagues [Bucchiarone et al, 2021, Bucchiarone et al, 2020 for further informations on PapyGame.…”

“…In view of the literature and what was brie y described in the previous section, it follows that: (1) fun is fundamental in learning and the effectiveness of educational games derives from the combination of learning and fun; (2) there is no clear and unambiguous de nition of fun, and there is still confusion between fun and other constructs that are more or less closely related to fun. This makes it more di cult to design and subsequently evaluate educational games; (3) little is known about guidelines for designing effective educational games and gami ed tools. Introducing game elements is not enough to create an effective tool, and poorly designed educational games do not accomplish their goal.…”

Characterizing UX Evaluation in Software Modeling Tools: A Literature Review

“…Two studies assessed more than 50 tools using the inspection method performed by researchers [39], [65]. As illustrated in Table III, 85% of papers list some challenges and issues, while 51% suggest improvements, either theoretically or by implementing a particular feature including gamification [38], AI-empowered software assistants [10], layered diagrams [46], [48], instant consistency checking [63], and speech recognition [7].…”

BIPMIN: A Gamified Framework for Process Modeling Education

“…Gamification has been increasingly used in the education sector as a tool to motivate student learning [21]. In the classroom context, Gamification has proved to be an effective tool to lower the learning curve of complex topics [3,27], increasing student motivation to complete tasks [6] and also as a tool for countering boredom and feelings of loneliness for users of online learning platforms [10]. It is seen as a solution for meeting the needs of next-generation students [15].…”