Developing a serious game to evaluate and train group decision making skills

MindTrek 2009 - 13th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 106-113

  Linehan, Conor ^a   Lawson, Shaun ^a   Doughty, Mark ^a   Kirman, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative games; Education and learning; Emergency management; Game simulation design; Management; Paper prototyping; Serious games; Serious games methodologies

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SPILL; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; GAME DESIGN; GROUP DECISION MAKING; PAPER PROTOTYPING; QUALITATIVE FEEDBACK; REAL-WORLD; SERIOUS GAMES; SIMULATION DESIGN; SKILLS TRAINING;

CIVIL DEFENSE; CURRICULA; DISASTERS; OIL SPILLS; PAPER; VIDEO RECORDING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 76749167666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1621841.1621861     Document Type: Conference Paper

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