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Designing games for learning: insights from conversations with designers

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Katherine Isbister,

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CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2041 - 2044

https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753637

Published: 10 April 2010 Publication History

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This paper presents insights about design practices that can lead to effective and fun games for learning, gleaned from interviews with experienced game developers. We based our approach on Schön's notion of practitioners evolving shared 'appreciation systems' for discussing and critiquing work, and aimed to gather and share some of game designers' 'appreciation system' for games and learning. The resulting insights provide valuable pointers to other designers in the CHI community crafting game-like experiences.

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Georgia Institute of Technology
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