{"id":69,"date":"2013-05-03T04:12:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T04:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2013-05-03T06:07:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T06:07:35","slug":"training-in-requirements-by-collaborationbranching-stories-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Training in Requirements by Collaboration: Branching Stories in Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Training by playing is believed to be an effective strategy for learning. Training games combine educational and technological techniques that help learners to get involved, collaborate and learn in a practical and interactive way.Collaboration is inherent to software requirements elicitation which involves customers, users and developers to achieve an overall goal. In this article, a game entitled TREG that simulates various activities in software requirements workshop is proposed. The trainee interacts with Non-Player Characters and according to the trainee\u2019s choice the game reenacts a specific scenario. The social simulation in the game is based on the branching stories genre. Each branching node is described using a scenario-based template. The game was prototyped in Second Life, a virtual world that gives the possibility to create an immersive collaborative educational experience.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-font-name=\"g_font_p0_14\" data-canvas-width=\"21.719990937709806\">Educational game, Branching Stories, Requirements,Second Life<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vega, K.; Robichez, G. N.; Fuks, H.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Training in Requirements by Collaboration:Branching Stories in Second Life.<\/p>\n<p>SBSC 2009, VI Simp\u00f3sio Brasileiro de Sistemas Colaborativos, Fortaleza, outubro 2009. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3918-8, Ed. IEEE-CS, pp. 116-122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/groupware.secondlab.inf.puc-rio.br\/work.jsf?p1=2173#ixzz2SCQAShPq\">http:\/\/groupware.secondlab.inf.puc-rio.br\/work.jsf?p1=2173#ixzz2SCQAShPq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Training by playing is believed to be an effective strategy for learning. Training games combine educational and technological techniques that help learners to get involved, collaborate and learn in a<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/?p=69\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Training in Requirements by Collaboration: Branching Stories in Second Life<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-worlds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katiavega.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}