Playing urban sustainability: The ecology of a simulation game

Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat, OZCHI'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 231-234

  Podleschny, Nicole ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer game studies; Ethnography; Learning; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY APPROACH; COMPUTER GAME STUDIES; CULTURAL CONTEXT; CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT; ETHNOGRAPHY; HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS; LEARNING; LEARNING OPPORTUNITY; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; NEW DIMENSIONS; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS; RESEARCH STRATEGY; SIMULATION GAMES; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN SUSTAINABILITY;

ECOLOGY; EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OCEAN HABITATS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70349117985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1517744.1517749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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