Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Augmented Reality Game Promoting Environmental Action

Kyra Wang; Zeynep Duygu Tekler; Lynette Cheah; Dorien Herremans; Lucienne Blessing

doi:10.3390/su132413912

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Augmented Reality Game Promoting Environmental Action

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Augmented Reality Game Promoting Environmental Action

Kyra Wang, Zeynep Duygu Tekler, Lynette Cheah, Dorien Herremans and Lucienne Blessing

Sustainability, Vol.13(24), pp.1-16

2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413912

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Abstract

environmental education

augmented reality

geolocation

mobile games

climae action

gamification

serious games

While public awareness of climate change has grown over the years, many people still have misconceptions regarding effective individual environmental action. In this paper, we present a serious game called PEAR, developed using elements of geolocation and augmented reality (AR), aimed at increasing players' awareness of climate change issues and propensity for effective sustainable behaviours. We conducted a study with participants who played the game, gauging their knowledge of and attitudes towards climate change issues before and after playing the game. Our results show that the game significantly improved participants' knowledge on sustainability and climate-change-related issues, and that it also significantly improved their attitudes towards these topics, thus proving that serious games have the potential to impart knowledge and promote sustainable behaviours. Additionally, our results address the lack of empirical studies on the knowledge base of serious sustainability games by introducing methods of quantitatively analysing the effects of serious sustainability games while additionally providing more knowledge about the effectiveness of the specific design elements of our game.

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Title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Augmented Reality Game Promoting Environmental Action
Authors: Kyra Wang - Singapore University of Technology and Design
Zeynep Duygu Tekler - Singapore University of Technology and Design
Lynette Cheah - Singapore University of Technology and Design
Dorien Herremans (Corresponding Author) - Singapore University of Technology and Design
Lucienne Blessing - Singapore University of Technology and Design
Publication details: Sustainability, Vol.13(24), pp.1-16
Publisher: Mdpi
Date published: 2021
DOI: 10.3390/su132413912
ISSN: 2071-1050
Copyright note: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Organisation Unit: School of Science, Technology and Engineering
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991029391202621
Output Type: Journal article