Environmental attitudes are essential for the today’s world in which shrinking natural resources and pollution are one of the biggest problems of the society. The research challenges go in two directions: on the one hand, the environmental researchers try to reduce the impact of human actions on the environment and, on the other, human researchers try to educate people to adopt ecological behaviour. This is the main issue faced in this research to sensitize young people to the environmental health using multimedia technologies. The paper presents a serious game addressed to primary school pupils aimed at transferring knowledge about marine litter and four species of Mediterranean Sea that are estimated to be at risk of extinction. The aim is to foster knowledge about the marine life and to explain people the problems that marine litter can cause. The results of a pilot study that investigates the usability of the game is presented.

A serious game to promote environmental attitude

ROSSANO, VERONICA;ROSELLI, Teresa;CALVANO, GABRIELLA
2017-01-01

Abstract

Environmental attitudes are essential for the today’s world in which shrinking natural resources and pollution are one of the biggest problems of the society. The research challenges go in two directions: on the one hand, the environmental researchers try to reduce the impact of human actions on the environment and, on the other, human researchers try to educate people to adopt ecological behaviour. This is the main issue faced in this research to sensitize young people to the environmental health using multimedia technologies. The paper presents a serious game addressed to primary school pupils aimed at transferring knowledge about marine litter and four species of Mediterranean Sea that are estimated to be at risk of extinction. The aim is to foster knowledge about the marine life and to explain people the problems that marine litter can cause. The results of a pilot study that investigates the usability of the game is presented.
2017
978-3-319-59450-7
File in questo prodotto:
File Dimensione Formato  
00750005.pdf

non disponibili

Tipologia: Documento in Post-print
Licenza: NON PUBBLICO - Accesso privato/ristretto
Dimensione 1 MB
Formato Adobe PDF
1 MB Adobe PDF   Visualizza/Apri   Richiedi una copia

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11586/188455
Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus 24
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? ND
social impact