Abstract
The Gamers4Nature (G4N) project aims to promote environmental awareness through the creation of digital games addressing that theme. The G4N Toolkit to Game design, developed within the project, is an artifact that encompasses resources to support the game creation process and sets of environmental-related thematic cards. In order to be used by other entities (e.g. Environmental Organizations), there was the need to develop a digital design tool able to be used by anyone who wishes to create thematic cards sets, while complying with the design principles and G4N brand guidelines.
This paper introduces the G4N Cards Set canvas, a digital tool designed to allow users to produce their own customized thematic cards. The tool was iteratively evaluated by teachers and UX design experts (N = 13). Results emphasize the tool’s intuitiveness, its impact in reducing the user’s learning curve and cognitive load, and its usefulness and practicality in several contexts.
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G4N, last accessed on September 12, 2021.
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The coding created was reviewed by the G4N project’s researchers to avoid biases.
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This work is part of the Gamers4Nature project Gamers4Nature (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031047) that has the financial support of FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal)/MCTES – Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education and FEDER under the PT2020 agreement.
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Ribeiro, S., Beça, P., Aresta, M. (2022). Aiding the Digital Creation of Physical Resources: Card Sets for The Gamers4Nature Toolkit to Game Design. In: Rocha, Á., Ferrás, C., Méndez Porras, A., Jimenez Delgado, E. (eds) Information Technology and Systems. ICITS 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 414. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96293-7_45
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