A Toolkit for Creating Cross-Reality Serious Games

Zarraonandía, Telmo; Dı́az, Paloma; Santos, Andres De Los; Montero, Alvaro; Aedo, Ignacio

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11548-7_28

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“…To simplify and speed up the design and development of educational games based on cross-reality technology, we developed a toolkit named MyXRGames. The design journey that led to the development of the MyXRGames prototyping toolkit is described in detail in two previous publications [2,4,52], including the requirements that were extracted through a user-centered design process, the design drivers, implementations and technical limitations. For the sake of completeness and readability, we include here a short description of the main functionality of the toolkit.…”

Section: Myxrgames: a Cross-reality Game Toolkitmentioning

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Engaging educators in the ideation of scenarios for cross-reality game-based learning experiences

Zarraonandía

Dı́az

Aedo

et al. 2022

Multimed Tools Appl

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Cross-reality media technology creates alternate reality experiences in which the physical and the virtual world are interconnected and influence each other through a network of sensors and actuators. Despite technological advances, the landscape of cross-reality technology as an enabler of alternate reality educational experiences has not been explored yet. The technical expertise required to set up and program such mixed environments is too high to engage the problem owners (i.e. educational experts) in the design process and, hence, user-driven innovation remains challenging. In this paper we explore the co-creation of cross-reality experiences for educational games. We created a no-programming toolkit that provides a visual language and interface abstractions to quickly build prototypes of cross-reality interactions. The toolkit supports experience prototyping and allows designers to coproduce, with educational experts, meaningful scenarios while they create, try out and reconfigure their prototypes. We report on a workshop with 36 educators where the toolkit was used to ideate cross-reality games for education. We discuss use cases of game-based learning applications developed by the participants that follow different pedagogical strategies and combine different physical and virtual spaces and times. We outline implications for the design of cross-reality interactions in educational settings that trigger further research and technological developments.

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Engaging educators in the ideation of scenarios for cross-reality game-based learning experiences

Zarraonandía

Dı́az

Aedo

et al. 2022

Multimed Tools Appl

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Toward next generation mixed reality games: a research through design approach

Xiao,

Zhang,

Buruk

et al. 2024

Virtual Reality

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Mixed reality (MR) games refer to games that integrate physical entities with digitally mediated contents. Currently, it entails game creators to integrate heterogeneous virtual and physical components, which is often time-consuming and labor-intensive, without the support of a coherent technology stack. The underlying technodiversity manifested by the research corpus suggests a complicated, multi-dimensional design space that goes beyond merely technical concerns. In this research, we adopted a research-through-design approach and proposed an MR game technology stack that facilitates flexible, low-code game development. As design grounding, we first surveyed 34 state-of-the-art studies, and results were synergized into three different spectra of technological affordances, respectively activity range, user interface and feedback control, to inform our next design process. We then went through an iterative prototyping phase and implemented an MR game development toolset. A co-design workshop was conducted, where we invited 15 participants to try the prototype tools and co-ideate the potential use scenarios for the proposed technology stack. First-hand user feedback was collected via questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. As a result, four conceptual game designs with three major design implications were generated, which conjointly reflect a broader understanding on MR gameful experience and contribute fresh insights to this emerging research domain.

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