Till LearnIT konferensen Game in ´Action i Göteborg, presenterade Lena Pareto följande artikel 2007: Utility Games: gaming as a design strategy to achieve utility effects (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska.)
Abstrakt: The objective of this study is to introduce the concept of utility games, to develop a characterization of such a game category, and to explore design and evaluation issues particular for this category. By utility games, we refer to games predominantly designed for utility purposes, and where gaming is viewed as a design strategy to achieve the utility. Four utility games were analysed, with the following dimensions: the overall context, the utility objective, the game setting, evaluations performed and challenges related to design and evaluation. The analysis shows that the utility aspects and the game design are highly interrelated and affect each other on all levels of the design, and that evaluations of utility games have many dimensions to consider. A summary of lessons learnt and some recommendations to utility game designers are provided. » Läs mer

Lena Pareto deltar i konferensen AERA , American Educational Research Association, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, och presenterar med kollegorna Annika Silvervarg från Linkoping Universitet, Magnus, Haake, Betty Tärning  och Agneta Gulz från Lund Universitet följande artikel: Pedagogical Agents: Pedagogical Interventions via Integration of Task-Oriented and Socially-Oriented Conversation.

Till AIED konferensen 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, in Auckland, Nya Zeeland, presenterade Annika Silvervarg (Linköping Universitet) och kollegorna Lena Pareto, Magnus Haake, Thomas Strandberg samt Agneta Gulz (Lund Universitet) följande artikel 2011: An Educational Math Game with a Teachable Agent and a Social Chat (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska.)
Abstrakt: We present an educational math game, including a teachable agent and a social chat, that trains basic arithmetic skills with a focus on grounding base-ten concepts in spatial representations. It employs a board-game design with a variety of different sub-games, game modes and levels of difficulty. [...] In other words, the basic game with the TA contains a form of on-task conversation between agent and student. But the game architecture also has been extended with a chat where the student can engage in conversation with the TA, writing freely by means of the keyboard and bring up basically any topic in a chat-like manner. [...] One reason to include off-task conversation is to enrich the game and its motivational qualities for the age group in question (12-14 year olds). Another is to be able to explore whether such a conversational module can enable pedagogical interventions, such as supporting pupils math self efficacy and change negative attitudes toward math in general. » Läs mer

Under matematikutvecklardagen får Hovhultsskolan i Uddevalla besök av 12 pedagoger från Mölndal som introduceras i matematikspelet Rutiga familjen med temat ”Talking and Seeing Maths in Games”.

Lena Magnusson medverkar i den 11:e Matematikbiennalen i Göteborg. Hon presenterar matematikspelet Rutiga Familjen under ett seminarium och tar emot intressenter i ett eget utställningsmonter.

I montern finns RF:s broschyr att hämta.

Samhällsanalytiker och frilansskribent Stefan Pålson skriver om Rutiga Familjens forskningsprojekt ”Talking and Seeing Math in Games” på Omvärldsbloggen som sköts av honom och drivs av Skolverket, It i skolan. Han tar upp RF som ett av redan pågående ” intressanta projekt som stakar ut lämpliga vägar för undervisning och lärande.”
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