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- Hylving, Lena, 1974-, et al.
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Game design as a pedagogical tool for learning and reflection : The case of the ethics experience
- 2022
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In: Design, Learning, and Innovation. - Cham : Springer. - 9783031066757 - 9783031066740 ; , s. 86-96
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper sets out to present an ongoing pedagogical project where game design is used to let students both learn and reflect upon different perspectives of ethics relevant to the master program they are enrolled in. The paper explains the underlying logic behind the pedagogical process where students develop their own game and at the same time learn about different perspectives of ethics in relation to courses that they are currently taking. With an open and iterative method, we let the students explore, discuss and design a game that can be used by future students. By letting the students decide and lead the development we democratize the learning-process and engage them in a learning experience. More so, this approach to game design as a pedagogical tool to engage and democratize the learning experience is new and increasingly relevant for both students that play games on an everyday basis, but also students that are new to games. Also, it is a constant and dynamic process for both students and teachers. © 2022, ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.
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- Resmini, Andrea, et al.
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Read ahoy : A playful digital-physical viking experience to engage children in finding and reading books
- 2020
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In: Human-Computer Interaction. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030490645 - 9783030490652 ; , s. 307-325
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A digital/physical installation part a series of pilots developed for Habo Municipality, Sweden, in the context of a public co-design effort aimed at creating a shared understanding of the possibilities offered by digital transformation and the development of a connected city framework, “Read Ahoy!” provides children with a simple game-like challenge: find books randomly distributed in a number of locations by matching conceptual, spatial, aural, and verbal clues. Built as an embodied experience for library spaces, “Read Ahoy!” is narratively centered on a Viking crew in need of help after they have lost much of their precious cargo of books in a storm, on their way back after a trade expedition. The story grounds the challenge in tropes familiar to Swedish culture and gives children a playful setup and well-defined goals as they search for books. “Read Ahoy!” explores how children entering the school system search and make sense of information in a blended space, structurally recreating the way they customarily mix action in digital and physical space. Theoretically anchored in Benyon’s conceptualization of blended spaces, in Bates’ information seeking theory and information search tactics, and in Resmini and Lacerda’s formalization of information-based experience ecosystems, “Read Ahoy!” was designed and implemented as a low-budget end-of-year project for the students in the Master’s in Information Architecture and Innovation at Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden, under the supervision of the authors. It was framed to meet the UN SDG4’s sub-targets on “Early childhood development” and “Universal Youth Literacy” and installed in Habo Library from June through August 2019 where it was used extensively by local children under the supervision of librarians during the summer. A full description of the installation and preliminary post-mortem reflections are offered in the paper.
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