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How Fun Can a Serious Game Be?

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Serious Games, Interaction, and Simulation ( 2015)

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This paper will explore how fun can be and might be designed into serious games for children. Three projects are described and then the tensions around designing for fun and education are unpicked with consideration of the roles of children in the design of these serious games.

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Thanks to the ChiCI team members who have assisted in bringing these thoughts together.

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  1. Child Computer Interaction Group, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

    Janet C. Read

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  1. Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Carlos Vaz de Carvalho

  2. Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Paula Escudeiro

  3. University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    António Coelho

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Read, J.C. (2016). How Fun Can a Serious Game Be?. In: Vaz de Carvalho, C., Escudeiro, P., Coelho, A. (eds) Serious Games, Interaction, and Simulation. 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 161. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29060-7_3

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