Can a Serious Game Be Designed to Increase Engagement in a Mandatory Postmodern Novella at Danish Gymnasiums?

Mads Strømberg Petersen, Gustav Søgaard Jakobsen, Daniel Bredgaard Hendriksen, Niklas Lee Skjold Hansen, Thomas Bjørner*

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Abstract

For this study, we designed a serious game to engage Danish gymnasium
students when reading the novellaALove Story, written by the prize-winning
Danish author Naja Marie Aidt. The novella is mandatory reading in postmodernism.
The study included 41 students from two Danish gymnasiums, who were
divided into three classes. Two classes were included in the experimental study,
which employed the serious game as part of reading the novella. One class served
as the control group and engaged only in an analog reading of the novella. The evaluation criteria, which were assessed through a questionnaire, were based on items from the reading engagement index, the user engagement scale, and the narrative engagement scale. Furthermore, the evaluation consisted of in-depth interviews with teachers and students.
The findings revealed a positive effect on students’ engagement in the experimental group and the possibility for future work in the field of serious games implemented in high school curricula. The serious game developed for this study balanced challenge and skills appropriately, but it could be improved in terms of the story world and controls.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelGames and Learning Alliance. GALA 2021
Redaktørerde Rosa Francesca , Iza Marfisi Schottman, Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Francesco Bellotti, Pierpaolo Dondio, Margarida Romero
Antal sider11
ForlagSpringer
Publikationsdato2021
Sider57-67
ISBN (Trykt)978-3-030-92181-1
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-3-030-92182-8
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021
Begivenhed10th International Conference, GALA 2021 - La Spezia, Italien
Varighed: 1 dec. 20212 dec. 2021

Konference

Konference10th International Conference, GALA 2021
Land/OmrådeItalien
By La Spezia
Periode01/12/202102/12/2021
NavnLecture Notes in Computer Science
Vol/bind13134
ISSN0302-9743

Emneord

  • Reading engagement
  • Serious Games
  • Storytelling
  • Game design

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