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The Periodic Table of Elements via an XNA-Powered Serious Game

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Transactions on Edutainment IX

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((TEDUTAIN,volume 7544))

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This publication concentrates on the production of a serious game on Microsoft’s XNA Studio, which illustrates both the potential of a cost-efficient, off-the-shelf development platform itself for programmers of a medium skillset (such as for example educators) but also the possibilities of designing to completion a fully functional game that can be used as part of secondary education chemistry curriculums in order to teach the important topic of the periodic table of elements. Additionally, a 15-subject pilot evaluation study of the game (titled Elemental) is included, which displays initial evidence that there can be educational benefits for the experiment participants exposed to the work.

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  1. Save The Children, 1 St John’s Lane, London, EC1M 4AR, UK

    James Birchall

  2. School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Poole House, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK

    Christos Gatzidis

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  1. Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, 223-8526, Yokohama-city, Kanagawa, Japan

    Adrian David Cheok

  3. University of Education, Weingarten, Germany

    Wolfgang Müller

  4. Coventry University, UK

    Fotis Liarokapis

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Birchall, J., Gatzidis, C. (2013). The Periodic Table of Elements via an XNA-Powered Serious Game. In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A.D., Müller, W., Liarokapis, F. (eds) Transactions on Edutainment IX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7544. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37042-7_1

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