Digging into Game Design for Older Adults - Collaborative User-Centered Game Design with Postsecondary Students

Simone Hausknecht, Fan Zhang, Julija Jeremic, Hollis Owens, David Kaufman

2017

Abstract

A collaborative team of game design students, instructors, researchers, and older adults worked together to create educational digital games for older adults. A user-centered design approach was utilized in which the needs, desires, and limitations of the end users were taken into consideration at all stages. Collaboration occurred among researchers, instructors, student-designers, and older adults to create several enjoyable interactive learning games. The current paper examines one of the game development team’s process through the nine-month course. The data included team observations, feedback from older adults, and a focus group with the team members at the end of the project. The results suggest that the process of requiring young students in their 20s to design for older adults challenged them to think creatively and expand their understandings.

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Hausknecht S., Zhang F., Jeremic J., Owens H. and Kaufman D. (2017). Digging into Game Design for Older Adults - Collaborative User-Centered Game Design with Postsecondary Students . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-240-0, pages 200-207. DOI: 10.5220/0006319102000207


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@conference{csedu17,
author={Simone Hausknecht and Fan Zhang and Julija Jeremic and Hollis Owens and David Kaufman},
title={Digging into Game Design for Older Adults - Collaborative User-Centered Game Design with Postsecondary Students},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2017},
pages={200-207},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006319102000207},
isbn={978-989-758-240-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Digging into Game Design for Older Adults - Collaborative User-Centered Game Design with Postsecondary Students
SN - 978-989-758-240-0
AU - Hausknecht S.
AU - Zhang F.
AU - Jeremic J.
AU - Owens H.
AU - Kaufman D.
PY - 2017
SP - 200
EP - 207
DO - 10.5220/0006319102000207