EAGER: Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) in the Service of Education and Design

另类现实游戏(ARGS)是一种新的互动体验类型，需要玩家合作，以现实世界作为叙事平台来解决问题。该项目的目标是了解和定制这一新的流派，以便(1)使用一系列协作技术和计算策略提供实践经验的引人入胜的教育活动，以及(2)一个共同设计和评估可能以意想不到的方式使用的新型协作工具的平台。这项拟议的工作是非常规的，风险很高，但可能会带来可观的回报。在知识经济中的成功需要学生在应用协作技术和工具来有效收集多媒体数据、理解数据并使用它来解决实际和具有挑战性的问题方面发展出强大的本能和专业知识。该项目的结果将产生更广泛的影响，重点是招收和留住科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学生。ARG有可能吸引来自不同社会技术背景的各种各样的学生，并以非传统的方式介绍科学和数学问题(例如，谜题)。

Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) are a new genre of interactive experience that requires players to collaborate in order to solve problems using the real world as a narrative platform. The goal of this project is to understand and tailor this new genre for use as (1) an engaging educational activity that provides hands-on experience using a range of collaborate technologies and computational strategies, and (2) a platform on which to co-design and evaluate novel collaborative tools that may be used in unanticipated ways. The proposed work is unconventional and high risk, yet could lead to significant payoffs. Success in the knowledge economy requires that students develop strong instincts and expertise in applying cooperative technologies and tools to effectively collect multimedia data, make sense of it, and use it to solve practical and challenging problems.The results of this project will produce broader impacts that focus on recruitment and retention of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students. ARGs have the potential to attract a wide variety of students from diverse socio-technical backgrounds, as well as introduce scientific and mathematical problems (e.g., puzzles) in non-traditional ways.