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The Journey: A Service-Based Adaptive Serious Game on Probability

verfasst von : Maira B. Carvalho, Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Francesco Curatelli, Alessandro De Gloria, Giorgia Gazzarata, Jun Hu, Michael Kickmeier-Rust, Chiara Martinengo

Erschienen in: Games and Learning Alliance

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Serious Games (SGs) have a lot of potential in education, possibly making learning more engaging and satisfying. Adaptive Games strive to keep the challenges presented by the game balanced with the player’s abilities, as to keep the player in the “flow” state. We have used a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to develop a simple adaptive SG for teaching basic elements of probability to high school and entry-level university students, called The Journey. The game performs continuously the updating of a user model with the competences of the student and presents the new challenges according to the student’s current level. This paper presents details of the educational aspects of the game, as well as of its implementation. It also presents a preliminary validation study and discusses future work.

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Metadaten
Titel
The Journey: A Service-Based Adaptive Serious Game on Probability
verfasst von
Maira B. Carvalho
Francesco Bellotti
Riccardo Berta
Francesco Curatelli
Alessandro De Gloria
Giorgia Gazzarata
Jun Hu
Michael Kickmeier-Rust
Chiara Martinengo
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22960-7_10