Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:23:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Magdalena Vila Uribe.pdf: 1702954 bytes, checksum: 44b602e7b82e05aaf10062ce9bae98f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-17 / The growing usage of games in training and development area indicates that organizations demand for changes and new technologies capable of fostering an involving, pleasant and stimulating apprenticeship environment. Meanwhile, every day companies receive more and more collaborators who have grown up in a digital world, full of mobile electronic devices that allow the access to information anytime, anywhere. This dissertation has as its objective to examine both the theoretical and practical subsidies for the creation of a training game in this case, a corporative electronic game at distance modality and is based on a qualitative investigation (using specific bibliography) as well as on the experience of professionals who work in this area (obtained through interviews in order to know how they develop games). After an initial contextualization, the research presents a brief overview of the technological trends in education, the usage of games in corporate training and development area and aligns some of the concepts used in trainings, such as experience, group dynamics, play and game. After that, it refers to perception and interactivity aspects in teaching / learning scope according to the complex thought and investigates authors who deal with games creation, presenting the result of the investigation performed along with the developers of this kind of game in order to understand the market practices. The study of some theoretical and practical aspects for the creation of a training game allow us to understand important criteria in the development of this kind of game, such as how to invest in initial data survey, get to know many different games in order to widen up the view about mechanics and narratives, present a riveting challenge to the players, guarantee that the foreseen mechanics is able to achieve the pedagogical objective of the game and allow that the activity fosters moments of exploration and exchanges, stimulating the collaborative construction of knowledge / A crescente utilização de jogos na área de treinamento e desenvolvimento indica que as organizações demandam por mudanças e novidades tecnológicas capazes de propiciar um ambiente de aprendizagem envolvente, agradável e estimulante. Ao mesmo tempo, cada vez mais as empresas recebem colaboradores que cresceram em um mundo digital, repleto de dispositivos móveis que possibilitam o acesso à informação a qualquer hora e em qualquer lugar. Esta dissertação tem como objetivo examinar os subsídios teóricos e práticos para a criação de um training game jogo eletrônico empresarial na modalidade a distância com base na investigação de cunho qualitativo (utilizando de bibliografia específica), acrescida da experiência de profissionais que atuam na área (obtida por meio de entrevistas para saber como desenvolvem games). Após uma contextualização inicial, o trabalho apresenta um breve panorama das tendências tecnológicas na área de educação, trata do uso de jogos na área de treinamento e desenvolvimento organizacional e alinha conceitos utilizados nos treinamentos, como vivência, dinâmica de grupo, jogo e game. Em seguida, aborda aspectos da percepção e da interatividade no âmbito do ensino / aprendizagem à luz do pensamento complexo e investiga autores que tratam de criação de games, apresentando o resultado da investigação realizada junto a desenvolvedores deste tipo de jogo para conhecer as práticas de mercado. O estudo de alguns aspectos teóricos e práticos para criação de um training game permite alinhavar critérios importantes no desenvolvimento deste tipo de jogo, tais como investir no levantamento inicial de dados, conhecer muitos games para ampliar a visão sobre mecânicas e narrativas, apresentar um desafio instigante para os jogadores, garantir que a mecânica prevista seja capaz de atingir o objetivo pedagógico do game e permitir que a atividade propicie momentos de exploração e de trocas, estimulando a construção conjunta do conhecimento

According to World Health Survey, there are 785 million (15.6%) people in the world that live with a disability. It is a well-known fact that lack of access to public transportation is a barrier for people with disabilities in seeking work or accessing health care. In this research, we seek to increase access to public transportation by introducing a virtual pre-travel training system that enables people with disabilities to get familiar with a public transportation venue prior to arriving at the venue. Using this system, users establish a mental map of the target environment prior to their arrival to the physical space, increasing their confidence and therefore increasing their chances of using public transportation. First, we have to guarantee that all navigation instructions sent to our training system are correct. Since the number of navigation instruction increases dramatically, instruction validation becomes a challenge. We propose a video game based validation tool which includes a game scene that represents in 2D the physical environment and uses a game avatar to verify the navigation instructions automatically in the game scene. The avatar traverses the virtual space following the corresponding navigation instructions. Only in case that it successfully reaches the planned destination, the current navigation instruction can be considered as correct. Then, we introduce a virtual reality based pre-travel wayfinding training system to assist people with disabilities to get familiar with a venue prior to their arrival at the physical space, which provides two modes: 1) Self-Guided mode in which the path between a source and a destination is shown to the user from third person perspective, and 2) Exploration mode in which the user explores and interacts with the environment. In the end, we have implemented visual analytics tools that track and evaluate trainees’ performance and help us optimize the game. These tools identify the difficulties faced by the trainees as well as obtain overall statistics on the trainees’ behavior in the indoor environment, helping us understand how to modify the system and adjust it to different classes of disabilities.

The thesis is focused on promoting the training of systems thinking using board game. The primary goal is to create a board game, useful for training of the information managers. The secondary objective is to describe process of the design and creation of board game. The theoretical basis of the thesis is to define the profile information manager and demands for his skills further description of the principles of systems thinking and game theory. External work output is a prototype board game. The theoretical part of the paper discusses in particular the principles of board game , systems thinking and psychological effect on the player so that it can pass through the game players more experience. From the perspective of the theory of systems thinking are discussed and applied basic principles of feedback, causal thinking and system archetypes. Theory of board games then processes the options and mechanisms to transmit the necessary knowledge and experience. In the practical part thesis focuses on the description of the mechanisms used in the game Dynacorp and their justification in terms of teaching systems thinking. Conclusion The paper evaluates the fulfillment of the set objectives, the potential of game and describes future goals.