Uma arquitetura para portais de serious games e ambientes virtuais com serviços de integração e acompanhamento de atividades

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Thaíse Kelly de Lima
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Ciências Exatas e da Saúde; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Modelos de Decisão e Saúde; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Arquitetura para portais web; Portal de serious game e ambientes virtuais; Sequenciamento de atividades; Modelo de avaliação; Architecture for web portals; Serious game and virtual environments portal; Activity sequencing; Evaluation model; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/9073

This work argues that it is possible to assess students, from the planning of activities that jointly use serious games and virtual environments in support to the training. Therefore, it features an architecture for web portals that offers the service for organizing and sequencing serious games and virtual environments, evaluating the performance of the user in these activities (games and environments). The research is motivated by the need to encourage the use of serious games and virtual environments in teaching support, as well as the need to help centralized access and monitoring the use of these resources. In the methodological course of this thesis, a survey with students, teachers and developers of serious games and virtual environments is highlighted, which verified the acceptability for using such resources in the educational context and relevance of services that a serious games and virtual environments portal may offer to these users. Elaborating the architecture considered as development stages the analysis, schematization, and the architecture's testing. The results indicate that it provides a way to collaborate with the human resources training from the proposal of the sequencing, allowing for a linked composition of activities, providing the reinforcement or complementation of tasks and contents in a progressive scale with planned educational objective-based evaluation. Also, as a result, the work presents Pegadas (Portal de Gerenciamento de Games e Ambientes para Delineamento de Atividades em Saúde / Games Management and Environments Portal for Designing Activities in Healthcare), developed based on the architecture as a concept proof. In addition to the architecture and its concept proof, the thesis shows as contributions: the research on student, teachers and developers acceptability of serious games and virtual environments, as for using such resources as assistants for the educational process; discussion on trial activities grouping serious games/virtual environments, in order to extend contents and strengthen knowledge through the different learning styles; the evaluation model that promotes use performance analysis together with serious games and virtual environments; the stimulus for the classification of educational goals through taxonomy that contributes to the process of educational objectives planning and evaluation; and, the attention to students' personal information collections, proposing the standardization of data as an alternative to assist in the management and interoperability of information across systems.