Title

Innovative integrated architecture for educational games: challenges and merits

Authors

Rania Hodhod

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Publication Title

Transactions on edutainment V

First Page

1

Last Page

34

Abstract

Interactive Narrative in game environments acts as the main catalyst to provide a motivating learning experience. In previous work, we have described how the use of a dual narrative generation technique could help to resolve the conflict between allowing high player student agency and also the track of the learning process. In this paper, we define a novel architecture that assists the dual narrative generation technique to be employed effectively in an adaptive educational game environment. The architecture composes components that individually have shown effectiveness in educational games environments. These components are graph structured narrative, dynamically generated narrative, evolving agents and a student model. An adaptive educational game, AEINS, has been developed to investigate the synergy of the architecture components. AEINS aims to foster character education at 8-12 year old children through the use of various interactive moral dilemmas that attempt the different student's cognitive levels. AEINS was evaluated through a study involved 20 participants who interacted with AEINS on an individual basis.

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