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Maritime City - Analysis of Preliminary Results

This analysis presents the preliminary results of Maritime City, a serious game-like product designed for Social Workers to experience in-depth scenarios. The analysis examines the realism, effectiveness, and comparison to traditional teaching methods.

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Maritime City - Analysis of Preliminary Results

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  1. Maritime City - Analysis of Preliminary Results • Ryan Flynn, University of Greenwich Ryan Flynn1, Lachlan McKinnon1, Elizabeth Bacon1, Jonathan Saunders1, Jonathon Davies2, Janet Webb21University of Greenwich, Maritime Campus, London, SE10 9LS, UK2University of Greenwich, Avery Hill Campus, Eltham, London, SE9 2PQ, UK{r.d.flynn, l.mackinnon, e.bacon, j.m.saunders, j.r.davies, j.s.webb}@greenwich.ac.uk

  2. Overview • Who am I? • What is Maritime City?

  3. Ryan Flynn Principal Lecturer in Games & Multimedia Technologies at the University of Greenwich PhD candidate, investigating the use of games in education (specifically, can the delivery of education through a game environment equate to traditional methods of delivery) Full time geek

  4. Maritime City • Maritime City is a serious game-like product that allows Social Workers (and, soon, other healthcare professionals) to experience in-depth scenarios based on practice • Both a training and “entertainment” product • Designed and built with professional input into all aspects of the game

  5. Realism • Realism in Maritime City is of primary concern due to the way Social Work trainees are trained • Realism is a complex concept, but for the purposes of GBL I propose we understand it as an accurate representation of the real world • How best to do this?

  6. L.A. Noire The whole purpose of the game is to use realism as a means of driving narrative - you can “tell” whether people are lying or not based on their reactions Uses state-of-the-art “performance capture”

  7. Realism (2) • A lot of the time, Social Workers have to make decisions based on their feelings of a situation rather than the presentation of the situation • e.g. a room may be messy but this does not automatically mean neglect; a baby might be crying but this does not mean abuse has taken place • “...as Downrie and Telfer (1980: 22) very concisely put it: ‘No amount of knowledge of what is the case can ever establish for us what we ought to do about it’.” (Social Work Toolkit) • This needs to be reflected in the game environment

  8. Example of Maritime City • To aid the discussion on the issues raised by the experimental groups, it would be useful for you to have a taster of Scenario 1 of Maritime City. • This is still a beta version, so apologies for any bugs!

  9. Issues Raised • Maritime City has been tested in a range of environments with a range of Social Workers from different professional backgrounds • It has been formally tested with a relatively small group of people so far (~10) • This is the group used for the analysis here • Further analysis with a richer data source will commence soon (data already collected)

  10. Experiment • The group (n=10) was formed of in-practice (i.e. qualified, practicing Social Workers rather than people training to become Social Workers) students as part of a child protection module being studied as part of a Masters degree. They were asked to play the game and then complete a role-play, both based around the same scenario. • The surveys were designed to have a balance of Open-ended and Likert-scale (using a higher-is-better scale) questions in order to provide a variety of data. • The general purpose of the experiment is to test whether it is possible to show equivalence between educational games such as Maritime City and more traditional teaching methods such as role-play.

  11. Realism • Q1: How realistic did you find the characters in the game?

  12. Ease of Use • Q2: How easy did you find the game to interact with?

  13. Effectiveness • Q11: How effective was the game at communicating the lesson content?

  14. Comparison to role play • Once everyone had completed the role-play AND the game, a second survey was undertaken • This time, n=8

  15. Academic • Q1: Comparing the game and the role-play, which did you find more academic?

  16. Enjoyable • Q2: Comparing the game and the role-play, which did you find more enjoyable?

  17. Emotions • Q3: What did you feel was better at helping you explore the emotions associated with the scenario - the game or the role-play?

  18. Stimulating • Q9: Comparing the game and the role-play, which did you find more stimulating?

  19. Choice • Q10: Given the choice, would you prefer to use games or role-play in the future?

  20. Summing Up • Using games technology for training is well received BUT does not seem to be a replacement for all traditional methods • In certain cases, realism of game is paramount • ...as is emotional/human traits of game characters • It seems that Maritime City could be a successful addition to the educational “toolkit” for training, but needs further refinement

  21. Thank You! • Any questions?

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