Title :
LawVille: A Collaborative Serious Game for Citizenship Education
Author :
Lorenzini, Cristian ; Brondi, Raffaello ; Carrozzino, Marcello ; Nistico, Michele ; Evangelista, Chiara ; Tecchia, Franco
Author_Institution :
TeCIP Inst., Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna San Giuliano TermeCarrozzino, Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
This paper presents LawVille, a Web-Based Collaborative 3D Serious Game aimed at teaching citizenship and the Italian Constitution to secondary school students, by making them the protagonists of a fantasy story meant to solicit their direct involvement in a series of political questions.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; groupware; law; politics; serious games (computing); social sciences computing; Italian constitution; Web-based collaborative 3D serious game; citizenship education; fantasy story; political questions; secondary school; Constitution; Educational institutions; Games; Government; Instruments; Three-dimensional displays;
Conference_Titel :
Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES), 2014 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Valletta
DOI :
10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012163
