Design of a Collaborative Tabletop Game for Civic Engagement: Serious Games in Rural India

Kongeseri, Sreeram; Coley, Christopher

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37983-4_7

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“…Certain gamification elements such as a rich story narrative, a relevant theme, desirable end-goal, point rewards, and social interaction between the robot and the player set the ground for players to treat social robots as fellow players (social actors) and create continuous engagement opportunities for players [18], [19], [20], [21]. By playing with one another on the same team to complete a particular task within a given period, players might feel more motivated and encouraged to interact with robots.…”

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Exploring Collaborative Game Play with Robots to Encourage Good Hand Hygiene Practises among Children

Pasupuleti,

Sasidharan,

Sharma

et al. 2022

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This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a novel collaborative educational game titled "Land of Hands", involving children and a customized social robot that we designed (HakshE). Through this gaming platform, we aim to teach proper hand hygiene practises to children and explore the extent of interactions that take place between a pro-social robot and children in such a setting. We blended gamification with Computers as Social Actors (CASA) paradigm to model the robot as a social actor or a fellow player in the game. The game was developed using Godot's 2D engine and Alice 3. In this study, 32 participants played the game online through a video teleconferencing platform Zoom.To understand the influence a pro-social robot's nudges has on children's interactions, we split our study into two conditions: With-Nudges and Without-Nudges. Detailed analysis of rubrics and video analyses of children's interactions show that our platform helped children learn good hand hygiene practises. We also found that using a pro-social robot creates enjoyable interactions and greater social engagement between the children and the robot although learning itself wasn't influenced by the pro-sociality of the robot.

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Exploring Collaborative Game Play with Robots to Encourage Good Hand Hygiene Practises among Children

Pasupuleti,

Sasidharan,

Sharma

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Exploring Collaborative Game Play with Robots to Encourage Good Hand Hygiene Practises among Children

Pasupuleti

Sasidharan

Sharma³

et al. 2022

2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Life Skills for Resilience-building among Female Youths in Chiredzi and Mwenezi, Zimbabwe

Muchabaiwa,

Chiweshe,

Mapara

2024

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This article examines the role of technical, vocational education and training (TVET) and life skills interventions in strengthening resilience and expanding opportunities for vulnerable female youths in the marginalised districts of Chiredzi and Mwenezi, Zimbabwe. Mixed-methods research evaluated 306 young women aged 18–35 who participated in such programmes, assessing impacts on livelihoods, agency and gender dynamics. Findings revealed multifaceted vulnerabilities, including economic hardship from poverty, income insecurity, infrastructural gaps limiting health and education access, and gender constraints. Climate shocks like droughts exacerbated adversities, driving risky coping strategies. While biases limited overall TVET enrolment for females, many accessed feminised trades like garment-making. Though domestic roles occasionally disrupted attendance, women overwhelmingly reported positive impacts on developing livelihood skills and self-confidence. However, translating gains into sustainable enterprises remained challenging amid personal, programmatic and societal barriers, including mobility constraints, lack of post-training support, and norms prioritising marriage over careers. The analysis emphasises holistic women-centred interventions, combining skills training with gender-transformative components like male engagement to enable success. Recommendations involve strengthening recruitment, curricula relevance, accommodative implementation, sustained post-graduate assistance, and harnessing graduates as inspirational agents of change able to overcome restrictive norms and unlock young women’s economic empowerment potential in the long term.

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Design of a Collaborative Tabletop Game for Civic Engagement: Serious Games in Rural India

Cited by 4 publications

References 22 publications

Exploring Collaborative Game Play with Robots to Encourage Good Hand Hygiene Practises among Children

Exploring Collaborative Game Play with Robots to Encourage Good Hand Hygiene Practises among Children

Exploring Collaborative Game Play with Robots to Encourage Good Hand Hygiene Practises among Children

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Life Skills for Resilience-building among Female Youths in Chiredzi and Mwenezi, Zimbabwe

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