FreshUP—A pervasive educational game for freshmen

Zender, Raphael; Metzler, Richard; Lucke, Ulrike

doi:10.1016/j.pmcj.2013.09.003

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“…The game focuses on issues like course registration, use of the cafeteria, library access, and public transport. The players win when they collect four cards that address four knowledge types: factual, orientational, actionable and practical knowledge (Zender et al, 2014).…”

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“…(CYSMN?) (Broll et al, 2006), Uncle Roy All Around You (URAAY) , Your Way Your Missions (Chen et al, 2013), FreshUp (Zender et al, 2014), Barbarossa (Kasapakis et al, in press, 2013), Ingress (Google, 2013), Mogi (Benjamin, 2007), Parallel Kingdom Age of Emergence (P.K. AoE) (PerBlue, 2011), Zombies, Run!…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The chosen games are amongst the most influential within the pervasive gaming research community (as evidenced by the number of citations they have received), while the respective articles provide a sufficiently detailed discussion to allow us to extract all the information needed to evaluate them with respect to the evaluation criteria (Benford et al, , 2006Chatzigiannakis et al, 2010;Cheok and Khoo, 2006;Fischer et al, 2006;Guo et al, 2012;Urban, 2011;Wetzel et al, 2009). Last, we survey a number of very recently released prototypes to ensure up-to-date analysis and to capture technological trends (Chen et al, 2013;Kirman et al, 2012;Zender et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Pervasive gaming: Status, trends and design principles

Kasapakis

Gavalas

2015

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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Pervasive gaming: Status, trends and design principles

Kasapakis

Gavalas

2015

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“…Another pervasive educational game is FreshUP [25] which helps to familiarize freshmen with the new environment, new people and new procedures on campus. In particular, FreshUP forces students not only to answer questions, but especially to carry out relevant activities, like going to a certain place, lending a certain book, signing-up in a certain course or the like.…”

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RouteMe: a multilevel pervasive game on mobile ad hoc routing

Lemcke

Haedge

Zender

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Pervasive educational games have the potential to transfer learning content to real-life experiences beyond lecture rooms, through realizing field trips in an augmented or virtual manner. This article introduces the pervasive educational game ''RouteMe'' that brings the rather abstract topic of routing in ad hoc networks to real-world environments. The game is designed for university-level courses and supports these courses in a motivating manner to deepen the learning experience. Students slip into the role of either routing nodes or applications with routing demands. On three consecutive levels of difficulty, they get introduced with the game concept, learn the basic routing mechanisms and become aware of the general limitations and functionality of routing nodes. This paper presents the pedagogical and technical game concept as well as findings from an evaluation in a university setting.

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“…Along this line, evaluation trials are crucial in assessing the usability, playability and quality of experience aspects of pervasive game prototypes. As a result, field trials deliberately oriented toward capturing those factors (rather than technical feasibility aspects) become increasingly commonplace in pervasive games literature [8,23,29].…”

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Pervasive games field trials: recruitment of eligible participants through preliminary game phases

Kasapakis

Gavalas

Bubaris

2015

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This paper investigates a novel methodological approach in performing user evaluation trials for pervasive games. The evaluation process of a pervasive role-playing game, Barbarossa, is used as a case study. Barbarossa involves a preliminary and a main execution phase. The former is freely available to anyone and may be played anytime/anywhere requiring no organizational and orchestration investments from the investigators team. The latter defines three interdependent player roles acted by players who need to collaborate in a treasure hunting game to achieve a common game goal. The eligibility of players for participating in the main game phase derives from those ranked relatively high in the preparatory phase. Drawing on concepts of cultural theory, we design the preparatory phase as an affective environment out of which the potential evaluators will emerge. The main hypothesis investigated is that the execution of such cost-effective preparatory phases may serve as a means for recruiting highly qualified subjects for user trials on pervasive game research prototypes, thereby increasing the reliability and quality of evaluation results. This hypothesis has been validated through the user evaluation trials performed on both the Barbarossa game phases.

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FreshUP—A pervasive educational game for freshmen

Cited by 17 publications

References 2 publications

Pervasive gaming: Status, trends and design principles

Pervasive gaming: Status, trends and design principles

RouteMe: a multilevel pervasive game on mobile ad hoc routing

Pervasive games field trials: recruitment of eligible participants through preliminary game phases

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