MainTrain: A Serious Game on the Complexities of Rail Maintenance

David  Alderliesten; Kotryna Valečkaitė; Nestor Z. Salamon; J. Timothy Balint; Rafael Bidarra

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11548-7_8

MainTrain: A Serious Game on the Complexities of Rail Maintenance

David Alderliesten, Kotryna Valečkaitė, Nestor Z. Salamon, J. Timothy Balint, Rafael Bidarra

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Abstract

Commuters who travel by train often feel annoyed due to misunderstanding the causes of delays in train traffic. They oftentimes are unaware of the necessity of performing maintenance to stations, tracks, and trains. MainTrain is a serious game developed to teach commuters about rail-maintenance while simulating the difficulty of keeping passengers happy. It is a fast-paced strategy game with a top-down view in which a player can perform maintenance actions on stations, tracks, and trains. By using commuter happiness as a base metric, MainTrain attempts to elicit empathy from players dissatisfied with scheduled maintenance so that they gain a better appreciation of the need for scheduled maintenance. This is coupled with the need to schedule maintenance for several components of a rail network, encumbering a player while teaching them about different aspects of rail maintenance. To examine the effectiveness of the game, the results of a user study are presented.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Games and Learning Alliance - 7th International Conference, GALA 2018, Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings
Editors	Heinrich Söbke, Manuel Gentile, Mario Allegra
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Pages	82-89
Number of pages	8
Volume	11385
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-11548-7
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-11547-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11548-7_8
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	7th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2018 - Palermo, Italy Duration: 5 Dec 2018 → 7 Dec 2018

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	11385 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	7th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2018
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Palermo
Period	5/12/18 → 7/12/18

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Keywords

Serious game
Educational game
Rail maintenance

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Alderliesten, D., Valečkaitė, K., Salamon, N. Z., Timothy Balint, J., & Bidarra, R. (2019). MainTrain: A Serious Game on the Complexities of Rail Maintenance. In H. Söbke, M. Gentile, & M. Allegra (Eds.), Games and Learning Alliance - 7th International Conference, GALA 2018, Proceedings: Proceedings (Vol. 11385, pp. 82-89). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11385 LNCS). Springer Science+Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11548-7_8

Alderliesten, David ; Valečkaitė, Kotryna ; Salamon, Nestor Z. ; Timothy Balint, J. ; Bidarra, Rafael. / MainTrain : A Serious Game on the Complexities of Rail Maintenance. Games and Learning Alliance - 7th International Conference, GALA 2018, Proceedings: Proceedings. editor / Heinrich Söbke ; Manuel Gentile ; Mario Allegra. Vol. 11385 Cham : Springer Science+Business Media, 2019. pp. 82-89 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Alderliesten, D, Valečkaitė, K, Salamon, NZ, Timothy Balint, J & Bidarra, R 2019, MainTrain: A Serious Game on the Complexities of Rail Maintenance. in H Söbke, M Gentile & M Allegra (eds), Games and Learning Alliance - 7th International Conference, GALA 2018, Proceedings: Proceedings. vol. 11385, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 11385 LNCS, Springer Science+Business Media, Cham, pp. 82-89, 7th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2018, Palermo, Italy, 5/12/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11548-7_8

MainTrain : A Serious Game on the Complexities of Rail Maintenance. / Alderliesten, David ; Valečkaitė, Kotryna; Salamon, Nestor Z.; Timothy Balint, J.; Bidarra, Rafael.

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Alderliesten D, Valečkaitė K, Salamon NZ, Timothy Balint J, Bidarra R. MainTrain: A Serious Game on the Complexities of Rail Maintenance. In Söbke H, Gentile M, Allegra M, editors, Games and Learning Alliance - 7th International Conference, GALA 2018, Proceedings: Proceedings. Vol. 11385. Cham: Springer Science+Business Media. 2019. p. 82-89. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11548-7_8

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