A dynamic role-playing platform for simulations in legal and political education

One big challenge in deploying games-based learning, is the high cost and specialised skills associated with customised development. In this paper we present a serious games platform that offers tools that allow educators without special programming or artistic skills to dynamically create three dimensional (3D) scenes and verbal and non-verbal interaction with fully embodied conversational agents (ECAs) that can be used to simulate numerous educational scenarios. We present evaluation results based on the use of the platform to create two educational scenarios for politics and law in higher education. We conclude with a discussion of directions for the further work.

Off Grid

Doctor Watson Architects joined with Samir Pandya and a select group of architecture students to work with line, colour and thread as a means of achieving a psycho-dynamic suspension of matter form and space in the newly opened studios on the 4th & 5th floors of the University of Westminster's Marylebone Block.