Game-based climate change engagement: analyzing the potential of entertainment and serious games

D Fernández Galeote, J Hamari - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Video games have risen as a popular medium with the potential to become a powerful tool
for public climate change engagement. However, little is known about how existing digital …

Leveraging a collaborative augmented reality serious game to promote sustainability awareness, commitment and adaptive problem-management

F Strada, MX Lopez, C Fabricatore… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The sustainable development of our global world requires innovative educational
approaches to foster people's ability to pursue common goals under ever-changing and …

Approaching sustainability learning via digital serious games

AD dos Santos, F Strada… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Finding proper ways to address learning about sustainability is a relevant issue.
Sustainability learning has to face some inherent complexities, due to two main factors: the …

Rethinking serious games design in the age of COVID-19: Setting the focus on wicked problems

C Fabricatore, D Gyaurov, X Lopez - Joint international conference on …, 2020 - Springer
We live in a complex world, in which our existence is defined by forces that we cannot fully
comprehend, predict, nor control. This is the world of wicked problems, of which the situation …

Evaluating the Impact of Gameful Design on Pro-Environmental Attitudes: Beyond Blue as Intervention

M Daiiani, P Sweetser, S Stanley, S Caldwell… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Videogames have the capacity to change people's attitudes by engaging players with
interactive gameplay, persuasive narratives, and immersive simulated realities. We present …

Climate-Oriented Persuasive Edutainment (COPE) Model: Player Experience for Effective Climate Communication

M Daiiani, P Sweetser, S Stanley, S Caldwell… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Videogames can be persuasive assets in climate communication. However, there is
insufficient knowledge on how to employ specific game design aspects to influence attitudes …

Gamification for climate change engagement: A user-centered design agenda

D Fernández Galeote, M Rajanen, D Rajanen… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Policymakers and environmental organizations are increasingly implementing gamification
because of its ability to stimulate playful learning and transform human attitudes and …

[PDF][PDF] Underneath and Beyond Mechanics. An Activity-theoretical Perspective on Meaning-making in Gameplay

C Fabricatore - 2018 - mediarep.org
The idea that when players engage in a game they enter a “magic circle”(Huizinga 1949) is,
in my view, a romantic and yet accurate portrayal of the player's experience seen from a …

[PDF][PDF] An analysis instrument for gameplay information flows supporting sustainability complex problem-solving

D Gyaurov, C Fabricatore, X Lopez - 13th European Conference …, 2019 - researchgate.net
This article presents a game analysis instrument for the identification and evaluation of
gameplay information flows which may promote the development of complex problem …

Development of an instrument to analyse gameplay features promoting complex problem-solving conditions

D Gyaurov, C Fabricatore, A Bottino - European conference on …, 2021 - books.google.com
Developing complex problem-solving skills and attitudes to survive and thrive in our
uncertain and unpredictable world requires engaging in meaningful activities within …