LawVille: A Collaborative Serious Game for Citizenship Education

Lorenzini, Cristian; Brondi, Raffaello; Carrozzino, Marcello; Nisticò, Michele; Evangelista, Chiara; Tecchia, Franco

doi:10.1109/vs-games.2014.7012163

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“…Compared to other serious games around citizenship topics, as e.g. TimeMesh [5] and LawVille [23], Diermocratie stands out in both the flexibility for potential discussion topics and the crucial role of player interaction in achieving the game goals. Diermocratie was not designed to teach a fact-based curriculum, but rather to promote open conversations around sensitive topics.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The game has a non-linear storyline, where players time travel to different periods in history to influence historic events and change the 'present reality'. Lorenzini et al created LawVille [23], a serious game designed to teach citizenship topics, primarily the Italian constitution and lawmaking process, to secondary school students. Like TimeMesh, LawVille contains collaborative aspects in which players may communicate with each other while playing the game, although there is no interaction within the game world itself.…”

Section: Serious Gaming In Social and Educational Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring Multiple Perspectives in Citizenship Education with a Serious Game

Blokland

Cullinan

Mulder

et al. 2021

Interactive Storytelling

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Within citizenship education, a new focus is being laid upon what is expected of citizens within a diverse and lightning-fast society: more emphasis is placed on teaching students how to understand and respect other people's opinions, regardless of how they may contrast with one's own. However, learning to be tolerant with others' viewpoints comes with hurdles, as currently it is quite easy to become stuck within one's own worldview. We developed Diermocratie, an in-classroom game aimed at encouraging a more open conversation, which breaks through these hurdles and addresses key competencies such as empathy and argumentation. By role-playing metaphors that parallel real-world events, students explore their own predispositions, are made aware of the perspectives of others, and are enabled to discuss issues objectively. From a preliminary evaluation, most students could identify the parallelism between the in-game metaphor and real-world situations. They also indicated that the game motivates them to further talk to each other, approaching sensitive topics among them.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Serious Gaming In Social and Educational Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Multiple Perspectives in Citizenship Education with a Serious Game

Blokland

Cullinan

Mulder

et al. 2021

Interactive Storytelling

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“…Over the years, SGs continuously incorporate new features and are enriched with new game and graphical methods. Finally, some indicative applications of SGs include corporate training, [32], entrepreneurship, [33], foreign, [34] and programming, [35], [36] language learning, cultural heritage, [37], ecological awareness, [38], [39], military service, [40], [41], pharmacology [42], health, [43], [44], [45] and health care, [46], circular economy, [47], stress management, [48], engineering risk management [49], cyber security, [50] and law enforcement, [51], [52], [53].…”

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Serious Games in Digital Gaming: A Comprehensive Review of Applications, Game Engines and Advancements

Gazis

Katsiri

2023

Wseas Transactions on Computer Research

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Serious games are defined as applied games that focus on the gamification of an experience (e.g., learning and training activities) and are not strictly for entertainment purposes. In recent years, serious games have become increasingly popular due to their ability to simultaneously educate and entertain users. In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the different types of digital games and expand on the serious games genre while focusing on its various applications. Furthermore, we present the most widely used game engines used in the game development industry and extend the Unity game machine advantages. Lastly, we conclude our research with a detailed comparison of the two most popular choices (Unreal and Unity engines) and their respective advantages and disadvantages while providing future suggestions for serious digital game development.

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“…Recent studies show how it is possible to modify the personal mobility behavior using incentive strategies [13] and gaming strategies [14]. The use of Gamification is very powerful in different fields, such as education, rehabilitation, health, military simulation, environmental sustainability, and others.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Serious Game Approach for the Electro-Mobility Sector

Silvestri

Rinaldi

Berardi

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)

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Serious Games (SGs) represent a new approach to improve learning processes more effectively and economically than traditional methods. This paper aims to present a SG approach for the electro-mobility context, in order to encourage the use of electric light vehicles. The design of the SG is based on the typical elements of the classic "game" with a real gameplay with different purposes. In this work, the proposed SG aims to raise awareness on environmental issues caused by mobility and actively involve users, on improving livability in the city and on real savings using alternative means to traditional vehicles. The objective of the designed tool is to propose elements of fun and entertainment for tourists or users of electric vehicles in the cities, while giving useful information about the benefits of using such vehicles, discovering touristic and interesting places in the city to discover. In this way, the user is stimulated to explore the artistic and historical aspects of the city through an effective learning process: he/she is encouraged to search the origins and the peculiarities of the monuments. A case study in the city of Bari, Italy, shows the application of the proposed SG tool. *This work is a part of the ELVITEN project. ELVITEN has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research & innovation programme under Grant Agreement no 769926. Content reflects only the authors' view and European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

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LawVille: A Collaborative Serious Game for Citizenship Education

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Exploring Multiple Perspectives in Citizenship Education with a Serious Game

Exploring Multiple Perspectives in Citizenship Education with a Serious Game

Serious Games in Digital Gaming: A Comprehensive Review of Applications, Game Engines and Advancements

A Serious Game Approach for the Electro-Mobility Sector

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