@inproceedings{84f98ba9cef444a39c5eb5f3804351d0,
title = "E-learning and serious games: New trends in architectural and urban design education",
abstract = "The complexity of urban processes needs professionals trained in understanding and managing the design of its spaces and the implementation of urban policies. This paper discusses an educational methodology to complement the standard Project-Based Learning approach with an experience using serious games with gamification elements to stimulate critical thinking in urban planning and urban design students, to promote designing spaces more adaptable and usable for a wide range of users and situations of public life. The proposed methodology uses five “mini games” that place students in different situations: (1) finding an unknown landmark, (2) reaching goal avoiding obstacles, (3) navigating with artificial lighting, (4) simulating the point of view of a person with a disability, and (5) simulating group behaviour. As a secondary objective the experience will track the participants{\textquoteright} behaviour to extract data to be incorporated into an agent-based model rule set.",
keywords = "E-Learning, Gamification, Serious games, Simulation, Urban Space",
author = "Francesc Valls and Ernest Redondo and David Fonseca",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported by the Non-Oriented Fundamental Research Project EDU2012-37247/EDUC of the VI National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation 2008-2011, Government of Spain, titled “E-learning 3.0 in the teaching of architecture. Case studies of educational research for the foreseeable future”. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.; 2nd International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2015 Held as Part of 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2015 ; Conference date: 02-08-2015 Through 07-08-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-20609-7_59",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319206080",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "632--643",
editor = "Panayiotis Zaphiris and Andri Ioannou",
booktitle = "Learning and Collaboration Technologies - 2nd International Conference, LCT 2015 Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}