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A Theoretical Framework For Serious Game Design: Exploring Pedagogy, Play And Fidelity And Their Implications For The Design Process, Pauline Rooney Oct 2012

A Theoretical Framework For Serious Game Design: Exploring Pedagogy, Play And Fidelity And Their Implications For The Design Process, Pauline Rooney

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It is widely acknowledged that digital games can provide an engaging, motivating and “fun” experience for students. However an entertaining game does not necessarily constitute a meaningful, valuable learning experience. For this reason, experts espouse the importance of underpinning serious games with a sound theoretical framework which integrates and balances theories from two fields of practice: pedagogy and game design (Kiili, 2005; Seeney & Routledge, 2009). Additionally, with the advent of sophisticated, immersive technologies, and increasing interest in the opportunities for constructivist learning offered by these technologies, concepts of fidelity and its impact on student learning and engagement, have emerged …


Cars (College Awareness Of Road Safety) Project: The Redesign Of A Dublin City Centre Junction With Respect To Non-Vehicular Traffic Between The Ages Of 17-24., Alex Browne, Carlo Selman, Mark Kennedy, Niall Dolan Jan 2012

Cars (College Awareness Of Road Safety) Project: The Redesign Of A Dublin City Centre Junction With Respect To Non-Vehicular Traffic Between The Ages Of 17-24., Alex Browne, Carlo Selman, Mark Kennedy, Niall Dolan

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Small Spaces Big Living: A Community Housing Project, Barry Sheehan Jan 2012

Small Spaces Big Living: A Community Housing Project, Barry Sheehan

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Interior and Furniture Design students taking Construction Studies worked with older people resident in Dublin City Council housing in the North Central area, to develop low-cost suggestions for improvements to the interiors of their apartments.


Redesigning Studio Apartments For Sheltered Accomodation Using Colour Theory, Kerry Meakin Jan 2012

Redesigning Studio Apartments For Sheltered Accomodation Using Colour Theory, Kerry Meakin

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First year interior Design and Furniture Students study colour theory as part of a second semester module on colour and perception, and as part of this brief worked with older residents in Dublin City Council housing in Raheny and Kilbarrack to collaboratively produce colour palettes and mood boards that the older people could use at home.