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This paper is an effort to describe the synergy achieved by combining research and cross media edutainment format development. At MediaCity we a) develop formats and b) market them. But to be able to make an efficient development of them we also need to c) research into them, from a user’s point of view. A presentation is given to the development process of “The Space Trainees”: what is it? How has it been developed? What does it look like at this phase of development? How have we involved testing and research? What kind of methods for combining development and research do we see as the best ones? What results so far and what kind of an impact have they had on the developmental work?
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Staffans, S., Wiklund-Engblom, A., Hassenzahl, M., Sperring, S. (2009). Doing It Right: Combining Edutainment Format Development and Research. In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A.D., Müller, W., Chang, M. (eds) Transactions on Edutainment III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11245-4_2
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