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User-Generated Character Behaviors in Educational Games

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Games are the new form of storytelling and social interaction for younger generation. It might be surprising, but children are ready to do more work for their game characters than what they are ready to do for themselves. Because of this, we started to develop methods to enable user-generated character behaviours for educational games. In this paper, we show how user-generated behaviours can be recorded and shared in educational games. Furthermore, we demonstrate how user-generated behaviours can provide teachers and parents very detailed information about individual child’s learning process.

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  1. Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Pori, Finland

    Harri Ketamo

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  1. Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Olga Sourina

  2. Immersive Technology Strategies, Leicester, United Kingdom

    David Wortley

  3. sdkim@kaywon.ac.kr, Euiwangshi, Kyonggi-do, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Seongdong Kim

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Ketamo, H. (2015). User-Generated Character Behaviors in Educational Games. In: Sourina, O., Wortley, D., Kim, S. (eds) Subconscious Learning via Games and Social Media. Gaming Media and Social Effects. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-408-5_5

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