A serious game for amplifying awareness on multimodal teaching: Game design and usability study

Petros Lameras; Stephanie Philippe; Lars Oertel

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49932-7_53

A serious game for amplifying awareness on multimodal teaching: Game design and usability study

Petros Lameras, Stephanie Philippe, Lars Oertel

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Abstract

STEAM is a serious game developed as a medium for helping
teachers to experience multimodality for teaching and learning. A design-based paradigm is adopted to elucidate how in-game design elements coupled with learning may visualize in-game multimodal representations. Multimodality is experienced as a process of creating meaning though connecting and combining
different modes, semiotic resources and semiotic ensembles. In this paper, we present the design and usability evaluation of the game. The usability study was conducted with (n=32) school teachers completing an online survey after playtesting the game for identifying, capturing and fine-tuning in-game usability aspects. The findings indicated that the game’s core mechanics, the ingame dialogues and card-game, represent and visualise the content and process of multimodal in-game ensembles whilst the development of in-game feedback and progress indicators was perceived as having the capacity to guide understandings on in-game multimodality and to track in-game progress.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	13th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL2019)
Editors	Michael E. Auer, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos
Publisher	Springer
Pages	559-570
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-49932-7
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-49931-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49932-7_53
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2021
Event	13th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning - Thessaloniki, Greece Duration: 31 Oct 2019 → 1 Nov 2019 http://mcl-conference.org/current/cfp_imcl2019.php

Publication series

Name	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Publisher	Springer
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357

Conference

Conference	13th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning
Abbreviated title	IMCL2019
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Thessaloniki
Period	31/10/19 → 1/11/19
Internet address	http://mcl-conference.org/current/cfp_imcl2019.php

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. The STEAM project received funding from the European Commission, Erasmus + with grant agreement n°2016-1-FR01-KA204-024178.

Keywords

serious games
multimodality
teaching
usability
game design
Game design
Multimodality
Serious games
Usability
Teaching

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Computer Science(all)

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Lameras, P., Philippe, S., & Oertel, L. (2021). A serious game for amplifying awareness on multimodal teaching: Game design and usability study. In M. E. Auer, & T. Tsiatsos (Eds.), 13th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL2019) (pp. 559-570). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49932-7_53

A serious game for amplifying awareness on multimodal teaching: Game design and usability study. / Lameras, Petros; Philippe, Stephanie; Oertel, Lars.
13th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL2019). ed. / Michael E. Auer; Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos. Springer, 2021. p. 559-570 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

Lameras, P, Philippe, S & Oertel, L 2021, A serious game for amplifying awareness on multimodal teaching: Game design and usability study. in ME Auer & T Tsiatsos (eds), 13th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL2019). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, pp. 559-570, 13th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece, 31/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49932-7_53

Lameras P, Philippe S, Oertel L. A serious game for amplifying awareness on multimodal teaching: Game design and usability study. In Auer ME, Tsiatsos T, editors, 13th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL2019). Springer. 2021. p. 559-570. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing). Epub 2020 Sept 10. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-49932-7_53

Lameras, Petros ; Philippe, Stephanie ; Oertel, Lars. / A serious game for amplifying awareness on multimodal teaching: Game design and usability study. 13th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL2019). editor / Michael E. Auer ; Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos. Springer, 2021. pp. 559-570 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

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