TY - GEN
T1 - City settlers-Participatory games to build sustainable cities
AU - Kumar, Vishesh
AU - Tissenbaum, Mike
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/6/12
Y1 - 2019/6/12
N2 - In this paper, we present the motivation for, and design of, City Settlers, a participatory simulation. In City Settlers learners engage in collaborative embodied play, competition, and sensemaking within the domains of sustainability, environmental complex systems, and city building. Learners work in teams running separate but interconnected cities, and need to deal with the interrelatedness of economic, ecological, and social systems which are integral to understanding sustainable development. Competing over some shared resources, and developing ad-hoc alliances during play-players have the ability to optimize for different goals (industrial progress, agricultural progress, or social longevity). Learners are also scaffolded to reflect on the ways different desired goals lead to different individual and collective outcomes.
AB - In this paper, we present the motivation for, and design of, City Settlers, a participatory simulation. In City Settlers learners engage in collaborative embodied play, competition, and sensemaking within the domains of sustainability, environmental complex systems, and city building. Learners work in teams running separate but interconnected cities, and need to deal with the interrelatedness of economic, ecological, and social systems which are integral to understanding sustainable development. Competing over some shared resources, and developing ad-hoc alliances during play-players have the ability to optimize for different goals (industrial progress, agricultural progress, or social longevity). Learners are also scaffolded to reflect on the ways different desired goals lead to different individual and collective outcomes.
KW - Collaborative learning
KW - Environmental education
KW - Games
KW - Mixed reality
KW - Simulations
KW - Sustainability
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U2 - 10.1145/3311927.3325343
DO - 10.1145/3311927.3325343
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85068802346
T3 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2019
SP - 660
EP - 663
BT - Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2019
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2019
Y2 - 12 June 2019 through 15 June 2019
ER -