Serious games at the UNHCR with ARLearn, a toolkit for mobile and virtual reality applications

Atish Gonsalves; Stefaan Ternier; Fred De Vries; Marcus Specht

Serious games at the UNHCR with ARLearn, a toolkit for mobile and virtual reality applications

Atish Gonsalves, Stefaan Ternier, Fred De Vries, Marcus Specht

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This article presents experiences and lessons learned with the implementation of a serious game for simulating the management of a hostage taking scenario. The game was created with ARLearn, a toolkit for mobile and virtual reality serious games, developed at the Open University of the Netherlands. In collaboration with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), ARLearn use cases for crisis situations were developed. This manuscript covers the games that were designed with UNHCR’s Global Learning Centre (GLC) and discusses the training pilot with UNHCR staff-members.

Original language	English
Pages	244-247
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 20 Sept 2012
Event	11th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2012) - Helsinki, Finland Duration: 16 Oct 2012 → 18 Oct 2012 Conference number: 11

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Conference	11th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2012)
Abbreviated title	mLearn 2012
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Helsinki
Period	16/10/12 → 18/10/12

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ARLearn
mobile learning
serious games

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