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Designing User Learning Experience in Virtual Worlds: The Young Europeans for Democracy Serious Application

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Advances in Information Systems and Technologies

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 206))

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In this paper, we present the user experience design of Young Europeans for Democracy (YED) serious application. Facing the actually need to support young citizens understanding and participation in Europe, schools have a key role on European studies integration. Accordingly to the growing opportunities of applying technology for training and education, we propose a serious application in a open-source 3D Virtual World environment solution, adopting a problem-based learning approach, role-playing dynamics and group work tasks. The main goal was to design a meaningfully user experience, increasing the students motivation and engagement for learning different knowledge on the topics of European Studies. Some preliminary results are presented, based on participatory observation within the use of the serious application.

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  1. University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Apartado 1013, Quinta de Prados, 5001-801, Vila Real, Portugal

    Gonçalo Cruz, Ana Maia, Leonel Morgado, Benjamim Fonseca, Hugo Paredes, Fernando Bessa & Paulo Martins

  2. INESC TEC - Associate Laboratory coordinated by INESC Porto(Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto), Campus da FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 378, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Gonçalo Cruz, Leonel Morgado, Benjamim Fonseca, Hugo Paredes & Paulo Martins

  3. CIDTFF - Research Centre Didatics and Technology in Education of Trainers, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Ana Maia

  4. CETRAD - Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies, Rua Dr. Manuel Cardona, 5000-558, Vila Real, Portugal

    Fernando Bessa

  5. Future Balloons Unipessoal LDA, Avenida 5 de Janeiro 12/2C, Cova, 3090-705, Figueira da Foz, Portugal

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Cruz, G. et al. (2013). Designing User Learning Experience in Virtual Worlds: The Young Europeans for Democracy Serious Application. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Wilson, T., Stroetmann, K. (eds) Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 206. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36981-0_106

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