• DocumentCode
    227077
  • Title

    LawVille: A Collaborative Serious Game for Citizenship Education

  • Author

    Lorenzini, Cristian ; Brondi, Raffaello ; Carrozzino, Marcello ; Nistico, Michele ; Evangelista, Chiara ; Tecchia, Franco

  • Author_Institution
    TeCIP Inst., Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna San Giuliano TermeCarrozzino, Pisa, Italy
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-12 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    This paper presents LawVille, a Web-Based Collaborative 3D Serious Game aimed at teaching citizenship and the Italian Constitution to secondary school students, by making them the protagonists of a fantasy story meant to solicit their direct involvement in a series of political questions.
  • Keywords
    Internet; computer aided instruction; groupware; law; politics; serious games (computing); social sciences computing; Italian constitution; Web-based collaborative 3D serious game; citizenship education; fantasy story; political questions; secondary school; Constitution; Educational institutions; Games; Government; Instruments; Three-dimensional displays;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES), 2014 6th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Valletta
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012163
  • Filename
    7012163