TY - GEN
T1 - A Serious Game for Recycling Education in Peruvian Children
AU - Tocto, Paul
AU - Dávila, Guillermo
AU - Ayma, Victor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Peru has one of the lowest recycling rates compared to other emerging countries and the Latin American region. One of the main reasons is the lack of environmental education. The present study aimed to implement a serious game to teach children to recycle from their own homes. The game, developed following the guidelines of the MDA framework and using the Unity programming language, consists of 3 modules in which recycling concepts are reviewed, such as classification, collection, and reusability. To verify the usability of the game and its efficiency for learning, 93 children between six and seven years old were surveyed before and after using the game. Data analysis was performed using an ANOVA test. The results show that the game is fun, easy to use, and allowed its users to significantly improve their recycling knowledge.
AB - Peru has one of the lowest recycling rates compared to other emerging countries and the Latin American region. One of the main reasons is the lack of environmental education. The present study aimed to implement a serious game to teach children to recycle from their own homes. The game, developed following the guidelines of the MDA framework and using the Unity programming language, consists of 3 modules in which recycling concepts are reviewed, such as classification, collection, and reusability. To verify the usability of the game and its efficiency for learning, 93 children between six and seven years old were surveyed before and after using the game. Data analysis was performed using an ANOVA test. The results show that the game is fun, easy to use, and allowed its users to significantly improve their recycling knowledge.
KW - Environmental knowledge
KW - Learning
KW - Recycling
KW - Serious game
KW - Usability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85172668861&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-33261-6_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-33261-6_5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85172668861
SN - 9783031332609
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 49
EP - 59
BT - Information Technology and Systems - ICITS 2023
A2 - Rocha, Álvaro
A2 - Ferrás, Carlos
A2 - Ibarra, Waldo
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - International Conference on Information Technology and Systems, ICITS 2023
Y2 - 24 April 2023 through 26 April 2023
ER -
