Senior Ludens: Serious Games development platform for older workforce training and intergenerational knowledge transference
Project Description
Senior Ludens Project is developing an innovative technological platform oriented to Serious Games development, aimed to ease experienced professionals from any sector to create quickly, easily and cheaply applications dedicated to collect and transmit their knowledge to younger professionals through gaming. At the same time, senior professionals will be able to update their knowledge by playing the games, such that the knowledge transference will be maximized in both directions.
The Project objective is based on taking advantage of gaming to facilitate that knowledge transfer, by improving the learning on young staff, but also encouraging older professionals, confronting them to new challenges that will demonstrate their seniority value. The game implementation to non playful situations is a growing trend in e-learning, based on the fact that people enjoying, will acquire and learn the knowledge more easily.
The Project pursues the objective by building a whole system composed by a game development Serious Game Engine, an e-learning platform and a content server. These three elements work together aligned to promote the knowledge transference by maximizing the acquisition of the learning objectives posed in the games.
Serious Games development is made by using the tools defined in the Serious Games Engine. This process is made in an incremental way by defining uniquely the Serious Games published in the system.
The developed system in Senior Ludens is going to be validated in three different sectors, in particular; in alimentary sector, health and IT. Expert professionals of these three environments will employ the new platform to develop Serious Games applications, which will be used to train other workers on the needed abilities, capacities and attitudes of their specific fields.
Collaborating Companies or Organisations
Indra's Role
Indra Software Labs is the Project coordinator. It also leads the dissemination and exploitation work package. Similarly Indra leads the elearning platform and content server development work package.
In addition it participates actively on the Game Engine development and the project integration, defining the architecture of the final solution.
Universities and Technological Centres
Subcontrated:
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Technologies used
● Juegos Serios
● 3D Graphics
● Game Engines
● Conect Server
● Elearning platform
More information
This Project, under reference nº AAL-010000-2014-1; has been co-funded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism (MINETUR).
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