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T1 XBadges. How soft skills are boosted by video games: Improving persistence, risk taking & spatial reasoning with Flappy Bird, Pacman & Tetris
A1 Alloza Castillo, Sergio
A1 Escribano, Flavio
K1 Video games
K1 soft skills
K1 training
K1 skilling development
K1 emotions
K1 cognitive abilities
K1 Flappy Bird
K1 Pacman
K1 Tetris
AB Abstract — XBadges is a research project based on thehypothesis that commercial video games (nonserious games) cantrain and promote certain soft skills. With a pre and post test model,Persistence, Spatial Reasoning and Risk Taking were measuredbefore and after in the subjects (15 divided into groups of 5) trainedfor 2 hours with the video games: Flappy Bird, Tetris and Pacman(respectively). In addition, the emotions of the players werecaptured too (thanks to a facial and emotional recognition system),to determine if emotions also have something to do with the skillsacquisition. The results show how Tetris significantly improvesspatial reasoning and how Pacman significantly improves prudencein certain areas of behavior. As for emotions, they reveal that beingconcentrated helps improve performance and skills acquisition butfrustration is also shown as a key element in the process. With theresults obtained we can begin to glimpse multiple applications inthe education sector and Skilling Development area.
PB Universidad de La Laguna
SN 978-84-697-3570-1
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4764
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4764
LA en
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 30-abr-2024