Participant Centred Framework to Support the Digital Transformation of Boardgames for Skill Development

Almås, Håvard; Hakvåg, M.; Oliveira, Manuel; Torvatn, Hans

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-88272-3_7

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“…The recent pandemic has revamped the discussion about differences and similarities between classical analogue games and their digital counterparts. A recent paper from Almås et al (2021) highlights how aspects such as nonverbal communication, social proximity and concurrent communication make analogue games superior to their digitised version. The main reason is that the formers are able to leverage certain psychological and pedagogical principles that promote learning through action and interaction.…”

Section: Serious Games and Gamification As A Means For Co-creation An...mentioning

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Sustainability awareness in engineering design through serious gaming

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Sustainability considerations are traditionally difficult to trade-off with technical and business requirements in an early design phase. Hence, design teams need support to reflect early on in the process, on how sustainability may affect profitability and customer value fulfilment in the long term. The commoditisation of modelling and simulation techniques points to gamification and serious gaming as emerging approaches to raise awareness among the design team – as well as users and stakeholders – of the expected behaviour of a solution along its life cycle. The objective of this paper is to explore how serious games can be used to inform decision-makers about the value versus cost implications of being (or not being) ‘sustainability compliant’ when designing products and systems. The paper initially presents the findings from a descriptive study focused on the definition of ‘design support’ intended to raise sustainability awareness through serious gaming. It further describes the development, application and testing of one of such games for material selection in the aerospace industry.

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Section: Serious Games and Gamification As A Means For Co-creation An...mentioning

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Reimagining how to understand learning game experiences: a qualitative and exploratory case study

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Pinkow

Giæver

2023

Smart Learn. Environ.

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While the use of games for learning in higher education is well established, existing research provides limited understanding of individual experiences that shape engagement and learning in collaborative learning games. Insights into players’ individual experiences can, however, contribute to a more nuanced utilization of learning games and to better understand differences in individual learning outcomes. Therefore, this study seeks to explore how learning is experienced by players in a collaborative learning game. To achieve this, the study investigates the incentive and interaction dimensions of learning and the role of engagement and motivation for learning in an online collaborative board game using an exploratory qualitative case study approach. The study draws on diverse data comprising several sources, including in-depth interviews, observation of participants during a learning game, written free-form feedback, and a survey regarding the play experience. Results accentuate the role of individual and contextual differences, especially pertaining to prior knowledge and applying knowledge in realistic settings, perception of novelty related to game learning, and support from instructors and group members. Findings are further contextualized by positioning them into theoretical foundations related to transactive memory systems and collaborative engagement. Suggestions are made for collaborative learning game practitioners to strive for intragroup acquaintance and establishing purpose and use before play, and for instructors to be trained to dynamically adapt the type and amount of support provided based on player needs.

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Participant Centred Framework to Support the Digital Transformation of Boardgames for Skill Development

Cited by 2 publications

References 15 publications

Sustainability awareness in engineering design through serious gaming

Sustainability awareness in engineering design through serious gaming

Reimagining how to understand learning game experiences: a qualitative and exploratory case study

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