A Serious Game for Students to Acquire Productivity Habits

Wouter Raateland; Konstantinos  Chronas; Tim Wissel; Tim Bruyn; Bertan  Konuralp; Mijal Bueno; Nestor Z. Salamon; R. Bidarra

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-63464-3_32

A Serious Game for Students to Acquire Productivity Habits

Wouter Raateland, Konstantinos Chronas, Tim Wissel, Tim Bruyn, Bertan Konuralp, Mijal Bueno , Nestor Z. Salamon, R. Bidarra

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Abstract

In recent years there has been an increasing shift from traditional work to knowledge work. Students are not always well prepared for such a work mode and struggle with time and energy management, leading to stress and long unhealthy study sessions. There are many applications aimed at developing productivity habits. A few of them are somewhat gamified, although they are especially focused on real-world to-do lists, lacking a strong narrative and appeal, especially to students. We present the serious game BusyBusy, specifically designed for college students. The game revolves around the capture and reflection steps of David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology. By simulating aspects of student life, BusyBusy facilitates students to practice capturing action-related thoughts in their real life and reflect upon study activity choices in an entertaining and engaging environment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Games and Learning Alliance
Subtitle of host publication	9th International Conference, GALA 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Iza Marfisi-Schottman, Francesco Bellotti, Ludovic Hamon, Roland Klemke
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	335-346
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-63464-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-63463-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63464-3_32
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	9th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2020 - Laval, France Duration: 9 Dec 2020 → 10 Dec 2020

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Publisher	Springer
Volume	12517
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	9th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2020
Country/Territory	France
City	Laval
Period	9/12/20 → 10/12/20

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care

Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

Getting Things Done
Habit building
Mobile games
Personal productivity
Serious games

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Raateland, W., Chronas, K., Wissel, T., Bruyn, T., Konuralp, B., Bueno , M., Salamon, N. Z., & Bidarra, R. (2020). A Serious Game for Students to Acquire Productivity Habits. In I. Marfisi-Schottman, F. Bellotti, L. Hamon, & R. Klemke (Eds.), Games and Learning Alliance : 9th International Conference, GALA 2020, Proceedings (pp. 335-346). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12517 ). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63464-3_32

Raateland, Wouter ; Chronas, Konstantinos ; Wissel, Tim et al. / A Serious Game for Students to Acquire Productivity Habits. Games and Learning Alliance : 9th International Conference, GALA 2020, Proceedings. editor / Iza Marfisi-Schottman ; Francesco Bellotti ; Ludovic Hamon ; Roland Klemke. Cham : Springer, 2020. pp. 335-346 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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A Serious Game for Students to Acquire Productivity Habits. / Raateland, Wouter; Chronas, Konstantinos ; Wissel, Tim et al.
Games and Learning Alliance : 9th International Conference, GALA 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Iza Marfisi-Schottman; Francesco Bellotti; Ludovic Hamon; Roland Klemke. Cham: Springer, 2020. p. 335-346 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12517 ).

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