A serious game for recycling education in Peruvian children

Paul Tocto; Guillermo Dávila; Victor Ayma

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-33261-6_5

A serious game for recycling education in Peruvian children

Paul Tocto, Guillermo Dávila, Victor Ayma

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Abstract

Peru has one of the lowest recycling rates compared to other emerging countries and the Latin American region. One of the main reasons is the lack of environmental education. The present study aimed to implement a serious game to teach children to recycle from their own homes. The game, developed following the guidelines of the MDA framework and using the Unity programming language, consists of 3 modules in which recycling concepts are reviewed, such as classification, collection, and reusability. To verify the usability of the game and its efficiency for learning, 93 children between six and seven years old were surveyed before and after using the game. Data analysis was performed using an ANOVA test. The results show that the game is fun, easy to use, and allowed its users to significantly improve their recycling knowledge.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Technology and Systems - ICITS 2023
Editors	Álvaro Rocha, Carlos Ferrás, Waldo Ibarra
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Pages	49-59
Number of pages	11
Volume	2
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-33261-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-33260-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33261-6_5
State	Published - 20 Aug 2023
Event	The 2023 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems - Cusco, Peru Duration: 24 Apr 2023 → 26 Apr 2023 https://icits.me/2023/

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume	692 LNNS
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

Conference

Conference	The 2023 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems
Abbreviated title	ICITS’23
Country/Territory	Peru
City	Cusco
Period	24/04/23 → 26/04/23
Internet address	https://icits.me/2023/

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© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

Serious game
Recycling
Learning
Environmental knowledge
Usability

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Tocto, P, Dávila, G & Ayma, V 2023, A serious game for recycling education in Peruvian children. in Á Rocha, C Ferrás & W Ibarra (eds), Information Technology and Systems - ICITS 2023. vol. 2, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 692 LNNS, Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, pp. 49-59, The 2023 International Conference on Information Technology &
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A serious game for recycling education in Peruvian children. / Tocto, Paul; Dávila, Guillermo; Ayma, Victor.
Information Technology and Systems - ICITS 2023. ed. / Álvaro Rocha; Carlos Ferrás; Waldo Ibarra. Vol. 2 Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2023. p. 49-59 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 692 LNNS).

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