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An Action-Management Video Game to Foster Sustainability Through Garbage Recycling

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Sense, Feel, Design (INTERACT 2021)

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The proposed video game offers to post-adolescent players educational contents about garbage recycling, implementing a gameplay that merges the Action and Management game genres with a pixel-art inspired graphic style. A preliminary user-based evaluation has been performed with three players using the Thinking Aloud technique. Comments about the game mechanics were generally positive and the sustainability topic was perceived well-integrated and non-invasive, proving the need of further experimentation and evaluation.

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Authors thank Claudia Balducci for the help with graphic assets and Andrea Maiellaro for his help in the development of the early prototype.

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  1. University of Bari ‘A. Moro’, via E. Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Fabrizio Balducci & Paolo Buono

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  1. Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Carmelo Ardito

  2. University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

    Rosa Lanzilotti

  3. Computer Science Department, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Alessio Malizia

  4. Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Marta Larusdottir

  5. University of Cagliari, Caglieri, Italy

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  6. Department of Information, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  7. Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  8. Fachbereich Informatik, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Trier, Germany

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  9. ITI/Larsys, University of West London, London, UK

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  10. Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

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  11. University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

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  12. Faculty of Sciences, Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Balducci, F., Buono, P. (2022). An Action-Management Video Game to Foster Sustainability Through Garbage Recycling. In: Ardito, C., et al. Sense, Feel, Design. INTERACT 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13198. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98388-8_2

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