Tabletop prototyping of serious games for 'soft skills' training

Conor Linehan; Shaun Lawson; Mark Doughty

doi:10.1109/VS-GAMES.2009.9

Tabletop prototyping of serious games for 'soft skills' training

Conor Linehan
, Shaun Lawson
, Mark Doughty

University of Lincoln

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

Abstract

Serious games offer a relatively low cost, highly engaging alternative to traditional forms of soft skills training. The current paper describes an approach taken to designing a serious game for the training of soft skills. A tabletop prototype of the game was created and evaluated with a group of 24 participants. Initial findings suggest that the game successfully created an environment in which it was advantageous to engage in appropriate collaborative decision making behaviors, as well as providing built-in opportunities for a tutor to guide under-performing groups.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009
Pages	182-185
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2009.9
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009 - Coventry, United Kingdom Duration: 23 Mar 2009 → 24 Mar 2009

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009

Conference

Conference	2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Coventry
Period	23/03/09 → 24/03/09

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Collaborative games
Education and learning
Game design
Serious games methodologies
Soft skills

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Linehan, C., Lawson, S., & Doughty, M. (2009). Tabletop prototyping of serious games for 'soft skills' training. In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009 (pp. 182-185). Article 5116571 (Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009). https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2009.9

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Linehan, C, Lawson, S & Doughty, M 2009, Tabletop prototyping of serious games for 'soft skills' training. in Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009., 5116571, Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009, pp. 182-185, 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009, Coventry, United Kingdom, 23/03/09. https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2009.9

Tabletop prototyping of serious games for 'soft skills' training. / Linehan, Conor; Lawson, Shaun; Doughty, Mark.
Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009. 2009. p. 182-185 5116571 (Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009).

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Tabletop prototyping of serious games for 'soft skills' training

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