TY - JOUR
T1 - Playfulness-based design in educational games
T2 - A perspective on an evolutionary contest game
AU - Hong, Jon Chao
AU - Hwang, Ming Yueh
AU - Lu, Chin Hsieh
AU - Cheng, Ching Ling
AU - Lee, Yu Chen
AU - Lin, Chan Li
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan. Besides financial support, we are very pleased to thank two elementary schools, Jin-Hwa and Pu-Chien, whose students and teachers participated in this research.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Playfulness steering is an emerging approach in educational game design and play. The integration of arithmetical computation, game strategy, and teamwork into one game allows players to interactively "steer" the playfulness and enhance learning. In this paper an evolutionary contest game was designed and implemented to examine the influencial factors. Using action research, focus groups and hermeneutic methods, this study suggest that the playfulness design of an evolutionary game is influenced by the degree of uncertainty and flexibility in decision-making, the level of challenge, equal conditions for fair play, opportunities to compete/cooperate, and the level of interactivity.
AB - Playfulness steering is an emerging approach in educational game design and play. The integration of arithmetical computation, game strategy, and teamwork into one game allows players to interactively "steer" the playfulness and enhance learning. In this paper an evolutionary contest game was designed and implemented to examine the influencial factors. Using action research, focus groups and hermeneutic methods, this study suggest that the playfulness design of an evolutionary game is influenced by the degree of uncertainty and flexibility in decision-making, the level of challenge, equal conditions for fair play, opportunities to compete/cooperate, and the level of interactivity.
KW - Educational games
KW - Evolutionary contest game
KW - Playfulness-based design
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U2 - 10.1080/10494820701483615
DO - 10.1080/10494820701483615
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67651021729
VL - 17
SP - 15
EP - 35
JO - Interactive Learning Environments
JF - Interactive Learning Environments
SN - 1049-4820
IS - 1
ER -