Co-creating a serious game with primary school teachers: a case study

Co-‐crea(ng a serious game with primary school teachers:

a case study Ruth S. Contreras Espinosa

UVIC-‐UCC

4th Interna(onal Workshop on Higher Educa(on University of Vic-‐ Central University of Catalonia

Co-‐crea(on is the process during which users take an ac(ve role and cocreate value together with the company (Prahalad and

Ramaswamy 2004). InformaFon and communicaFon technologies provide the opportunity for consumers to

engage in an organizaFon’s innovaFon process (Di Gangi et al. 2009).


The extent to which interacFons in the virtual customer environment

offer benefits (cogni(ve, social integra(ve, personal integra(ve, and hedonic) shapes the actual parFcipaFon. The results reveal that users’ actual experiences and their beliefs

about the expected benefits significantly influence their actual conFnued parFcipaFon.


Eustress

Multiplayer Classromm


Method AcFon research is a collabora(ve, rigorous, itera(ve process

that goes through several phases in several cycles (Iversen et al.2004). We conducted a 6-‐month acFon research study consisFng

of two cycles with the following phases: diagnosing, acFon planning, acFon taking, evaluaFng

and specifying learning.


Method

AcFon research approach, which allowed us to explore co-‐creaFon experiences and propose a set of design principles.


Serious Game: Ferran Alsina





Usability


Simplifying the interacFon and reducing users’ efforts – usability experience.

Likeability


Theorical Contribu(on -‐  Synthesizing the insights gained from an acFon research study that involved

numerous data collecFon strategies and intervenFons. -‐  A set of design principles for virtual co-‐creaFon systems that contribute to the

body of literature that seeks to leverage games for cocreaFon. -‐  Adds to the iniFal empirical content of the research agenda, inquiry into the

changed nature of games, technologies and opFmal experience. -‐  This research has enriched the framework by the collaboraFve dimension. -‐  In user-‐generated environments, invite users to cocreate the content, they wish to

be part of their experience.


Limita(ons and future research -‐ This study focused on the design of the experience and the chosen methodology is not able to address quesFons of causality in relaFon to the effecFveness of the developed co-‐creaFon system. -‐Researchers must closely examine the value proposiFon for serious games. -‐Future studies may explore and compare how different types of games could enrich diverse cocreaFon tasks. -‐Future research might explore the relaFve impact of the different experience dimensions for different co-‐creaFon tasks.


Conclusions

This study implies that serious games can help leverage a developer’s co-‐creaFon iniFaFves. The criFcal challenge for co-‐creaFon in games is not so much in devising the

technological infrastructure, but in creaFng and maintaining an experience for parFcipants.


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Co-creating a serious game with primary school teachers: a case study