Serious games to prevent and detect bullying and cyberbullying: A systematic serious games and literature review

Calvo-Morata, Antonio; Alonso‐Fernández, Cristina; Freire, Manuel; Martínez‐Ortiz, Iván; Fernández‐Manjón, Baltasar

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2020.103958

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“…Using the narrative storytelling approach in games is not new and has been used in mainstream games, for example, Assassin Creed, Mass Effect, The Witcher and Final Fantasy series. Researchers have used games to educate the public about topics of interests such as bullying (Calvo-Morata, Alonso-Fernández, Freire, Martínez-Ortiz, & Fernández-Manjón, 2020), environmental (Gardeli et al, 2017) and cross-cultural awareness (Jupit, Minoi, Arnab, & Yeao, 2011;Jupit et al, 2012;Maraffi & Sacerdoti, 2018).…”

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AirXorcist: Raising Awareness About Air Pollution through Narrative Storytelling in Computer Game

Robert¹,

Wei²,

Samson³

2021

TUR

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Air pollution has been on the rise and poses a severe problem that needs the public’s attention and action. There is an urgency to raise awareness about air pollution among the people. Computer games can be used as a medium to raise awareness about topics of interest, such as air pollution. We have conducted an online preliminary survey among public members through random sampling to study their awareness level on air pollution and general opinion about a computer game. From the survey, we have found that the public has inaccurate knowledge about air pollution, and some of them were not aware that they have directly contributed to air pollution as well. The survey has also revealed that there is a need for role-playing game (RPG) educative games for the public. Thus, an edutainment RPG computer game entitled “AirXorcist” was developed using the Agile methodology to raise awareness about air pollution. We have also employed a story-telling method in the game to educate players about air pollution. Two tests, namely pre-game and post-game tests, were conducted to determine whether the game can raise public awareness about air pollution. From the analysis, we obtained the t-test statistics = -7.072 and p-value = -0.000002. The result shows sufficient evidence to suggest that the AirXorcist game has successfully helped relay information and raise public awareness about air pollution.

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AirXorcist: Raising Awareness About Air Pollution through Narrative Storytelling in Computer Game

Robert¹,

Wei²,

Samson³

2021

TUR

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“…In the last decade, technology education has been established as a new approach for all stages of education, in particular to children and teenager. Computer games are an effective and highly motivational educational tool that has proved to be capable of changing users' attitudes and raising awareness in a great variety of field, including healthy lifestyle promotion (DeSmet et al, 2014), pro-social behaviors (Calvo-Morata et al, 2020) and also for teaching hygiene principles (Kostkova et al, 2010). Game principles are also useful for everyday activities, planning, and organising tasks in a playful way (Szabo et al, 2020).…”

Section: Digital Communication Technologies To Support End-users Learning For a Safe Return To School During Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital communication technologies to support end-users learning for a safe return to school during COVID-19

Comai¹,

Costa²,

Ventura³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 European Conference on Computing in Construction

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The paper provides a support in the definition of COVID-19 protocols in order to allow the safe re-opening of an educational building. It also derives a reusable approach extendable to other building typologies. The integrated adoption of multiple simulation-oriented technologies is investigated. A case study is considered, where crowd simulation, agent-based simulation and communication tools have been integrated with a hybrid approach. By means of computer games, the adoption of which is within the scope of this paper, end-users can experience school use processes within a virtual environment (1) contributing to the realism of the simulation and (2) obtaining useful information regarding the protocols in force to reduce COVID-19 risks.

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“…Serious Games (SG) are interactive games designed to go beyond the entertainment aspect of regular video games. Calvo-Morata et al (2020) conducted a review of serious games focused on the use of video games as tools for the prevention and detection of bullying and cyberbullying. Other purposes include therapy and education, both of which attempt to change behaviors.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring First-Person Perspectives in Designing a Role-Playing VR Simulation for Bullying Prevention: A Focus Group Study

Oyekoya¹,

Urbanski²,

Shynkar³

et al. 2021

Front. Virtual Real.

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Bullying is a complex and abusive form of violence that has potentially serious social and mental health consequences for children and adolescents. With reference to the Olweus Bullying Circle, this project involves the development of a simulation that will allow students to view themselves in different roles played in bullying situations using a virtual reality setting. Interventions need to explore the perspective of the student who bullies and the student being bullied, as well as the bystander in order to model desirable intervention behavior. The expectation is that through role-playing, the students will explore different perspectives and learn how to respond to bullying situations. Two focus groups were conducted to allow experts to contribute to the design of the bullying prevention simulation and gather suggestions for improvements. Findings from the focus group studies suggest that to create effective bullying prevention, Virtual Reality simulations should consider focusing on role-playing, customization of the characters, environments, scenarios and a scoring/reward system.

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Serious games to prevent and detect bullying and cyberbullying: A systematic serious games and literature review

Cited by 76 publications

References 43 publications

AirXorcist: Raising Awareness About Air Pollution through Narrative Storytelling in Computer Game

AirXorcist: Raising Awareness About Air Pollution through Narrative Storytelling in Computer Game

Digital communication technologies to support end-users learning for a safe return to school during COVID-19

Exploring First-Person Perspectives in Designing a Role-Playing VR Simulation for Bullying Prevention: A Focus Group Study

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