ABSTRACT

With the current rising need for sustainability education, understanding the interconnected political, economic, ecological, and social systems that motivate (system level) change, can be uniquely addressed through immersive multiplayer games. Immersion through a mixed reality experience, face to face interactions, and game mechanics that push players to play with and against their co-learners enhances the familiar benefits of participatory simulations – where learners engage in developing parts of a complex system, and then respond to the consequences of their own decisions through interpersonal negotiation and changing strategies. Here we present City Settlers, a city management (immersive multiplayer) game that supports such learning and elicits different kinds of collaborations. We present these different collaborations as evidence for a range of complex systems understandings. We call these socially performed representations of new learning – procedural collaborations. Using a sequence of vignettes, we present cases of how game and interaction design can foster different procedural collaborations, and how City Settlers enables these procedural collaborations to represent developing understandings of a complex systems perspective on sustainable development. Through our work, we highlight the unique affordances of social immersive simulations in creating space to perform and understand concepts hard to find in many simulation and game-based learning environments.

摘要

随着当前对可持续发展教育的需求不断增长，了解激发（系统级）变化的相互关联的政治、经济、生态和社会系统，可以通过沉浸式多人游戏来解决。通过混合现实体验、面对面的互动以及促使玩家与共同学习者一起玩和对抗的游戏机制的沉浸感增强了参与式模拟的熟悉的好处——学习者参与开发复杂系统的部分，然后响应通过人际协商和改变策略，他们自己决定的后果。在这里，我们展示了 City Settlers，这是一款支持此类学习并引发不同类型合作的城市管理（沉浸式多人游戏）游戏。我们将这些不同的合作作为一系列复杂系统理解的证据。我们将这些新学习的社会表现形式称为程序合作。使用一系列小插曲，我们展示了游戏和交互设计如何促进不同程序合作的案例，以及城市定居者如何使这些程序合作能够代表对可持续发展的复杂系统观点的发展理解。通过我们的工作，我们强调了社交沉浸式模拟在创造空间以执行和理解许多模拟和基于游戏的学习环境中难以找到的概念方面的独特能力。我们展示了游戏和交互设计如何促进不同程序合作的案例，以及城市定居者如何使这些程序合作能够代表对可持续发展的复杂系统观点的发展理解。通过我们的工作，我们强调了社交沉浸式模拟在创造空间以执行和理解许多模拟和基于游戏的学习环境中难以找到的概念方面的独特能力。我们展示了游戏和交互设计如何促进不同程序合作的案例，以及城市定居者如何使这些程序合作能够代表对可持续发展的复杂系统观点的发展理解。通过我们的工作，我们强调了社交沉浸式模拟在创造空间以执行和理解许多模拟和基于游戏的学习环境中难以找到的概念方面的独特能力。