80Days: Adaptive Digital Storytelling for Digital Educational Games
Key: GMRS09-1
Author: Stefan Göbel, Florian Mehm, Sabrina Radke, Ralf Steinmetz
Date: August 2009
Kind: In proceedings
Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Book title: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'09)
Keywords: Technology-enhanced Learning, Digital Educational Games, Digital Storytelling, Personalization, Adaptation, Authoring Tools
Abstract: The overall aim of the European research project 80Days situated in the field of Technology-enhanced Learning is to combine adaptive learning, Storytelling and gaming technology in order to build intelligent, adaptive and exciting learning environments in the form of Storytelling-based digital educational games (DEGs). This paper presents the major results of the Serious Gaming group at TU Darmstadt achieved in the first development cycle of 80Days: Based on a short introduction in section 1 providing a brief overview of the 80Days approach and key challenges being addressed, section 2 introduces methods and concepts of an adaptive digital storytelling framework and indicates how this contributes to intelligent personalisation and adaptation in DEGs. Section 3 describes practical results in terms of a first technical platform of 80Days integrating an adaptive learning engine, story engine and game engine plus a content repository and StoryTec as authoring environment to create such Story-based DEGs. Section 4 summarizes the current status and main results of the 80Days approach achieved so far including first evaluation feedback, and points out further research and development activities.
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