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Towards a More Reflective Social Media Use Through Serious Games and Co-design

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Serious Games (JCSG 2018)

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This paper presents an interdisciplinary co-design approach for a serious game that elaborates on social media’s diverse potentials and underlying design principles. The contribution of the following methods to our game design are discussed: workshops, interviews, group discussions, participant observations and surveys. We argue that an informed approach to the use of social media can promote a more reflective involvement with it.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Barbara Göbl & Helmut Hlavacs

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Dayana Hristova

  3. Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Suzana Jovicic & Marie-France Chevron

  4. Department of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Thomas Slunecko

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  1. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  2. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Augusto Garcia-Agundez

  3. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Thomas Tregel

  4. Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, UK

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  5. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  6. SINTEF Technology and Society, Trondheim, Norway

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  7. Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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Göbl, B., Hristova, D., Jovicic, S., Slunecko, T., Chevron, MF., Hlavacs, H. (2018). Towards a More Reflective Social Media Use Through Serious Games and Co-design. In: Göbel, S., et al. Serious Games. JCSG 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11243. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02762-9_23

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