2. ARLearn and Google App Engine
Open source
App Engine
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3. Serious games
• Scoring
• Progress
• Team play
• Roles
Game
Run
Teams
Players
Stefaan
Marcus
Welcome message
Assignment 1
Answers
Feedback
Actions
Assignment 2
Run 2
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4. Lifecycle of a media item
Invisible
dependsOn
Visible
disappearOn
Invisible
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5. EMURGENCY - Decision and
behaviour training for cardiac arrest
• Cardiac arrest one of the main causes of death
• Only 20% of affected people survive
• The survival rate could be doubled if
– Immediate help by laymen would be in place
– Professional help would earlier be in place
• But:
– Bystanders often don’t know what to do
– Bystanders don’t help when they fear to do the wrong
things
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10. Roles / teams
Head of Office - Security Officer - Staff Welfare
a role is performed by a small group with smartphone.
advance organizer for real drill
take decissions / collaborate
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14. SALOMO - Decision training for
exception handling in logistics
Source: Voss et al. (2008)
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15. SALOMO
Game design
• Roles
– Control tower – overview, permissions to other actions
– Vessel planner – plans the unloading and loading of the ship
– Yard planner – decides the storage positions for containers
– Sales – responsible for the bookings and financial transactions between the clients and
the terminal
– Resource planner – Assigns resources to each vessel
• Game goal
– Generate situational awerness among different roles to improve their
behaviour in disruption situations
• Approach
– Give increasing access to communication means during the game
process
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