Societal impact of a serious game on raising public awareness: The case of FloodSim

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games, Sandbox '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 15-22

  Rebolledo Mendez, Genaro ^a   Avramides, Katerina ^b   Freitas, Sara DE ^a   Memarzia, Kam ^c  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c Playgen Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Serious games; Societal impact

Indexed keywords

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FLOOD RISKS; GENERAL PUBLICS; PEDAGOGICAL PRINCIPLES; POLICY MAKING; PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES; PUBLIC AWARENESS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REDUCED DATA; SERIOUS GAMES; SIMULATION-BASED; SOCIAL ISSUES; SOCIETAL IMPACTS; SOCIETAL ISSUES;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 70450234965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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