Sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OUSD P&R) xAPI's Potential in Games, Gamification, and Augmented Reality Andy Johnson Contractor with Problem Solutions, LLC in support of the ADL Initiative xTalk 16 December 2015 Virtual

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Games Are Their Own Medium

Game Essentials 4 ‣ Can Either Win or Lose (some exceptions) ‣ Meaningful Choices ‣ Feedback, often exaggerated and immediate ‣ Surprise/Discovery ‣ Storyline/Plot ‣ Skill/Ability ‣ Learning Inside the Construct

Different Quality of Games

Games in xAPI 7 ‣ xAPI can show the path to the meaningful choice ‣ xAPI vocabulary enables any gaming experience ‣ xAPI can do the “game feed” ‣ Based on Activity Streams, so makes perfect sense

The Journey Is Important! 8 ‣ The meaningful choices in a game are important, but… ‣ So are the actions taken up to that point ‣ As well as the time ‣ Educators care about more than the choice ‣ The choice is simply a metric ‣ Demonstrated prior knowledge to assess gaps ‣ Cross-performance to improve content/game itself ‣ Movement in space suggesting biases (or bad UI)

Vocabulary(12 Verbs Aren’t AlwaysEnough)

Game “Logs” = Natural Fit

Serious Games

Gamification 12

Gamification 13 ‣ Shows Real-world results ‣ Choices (inside the Gameification part) don’t impact results ‣ Rigid Rules/Mechanisms ‣ Learning is elsewhere, impacts what happens in the Gameification layer ‣ Skill does not impact this layer

Example

Gamification in xAPI 15 ‣ Can broadcast anonymous data in real time ‣ Doesn’t have to dig deep into a proprietary database to get individual records (SCORM) ‣ Easy to bolt on with results and result extensions ‣ Statements act as “evidence”

But…Don’t Get Carried Away

Augmented Reality 17

Augmented Reality 18 ‣ Bolts a layer on top of current reality ‣ Projection over “sight” layer (street sign reader) ‣ Provides feedback not available through senses (heat, etc.)

Augmented Reality 19 ‣ xAPI can populate the bolted on layer’s information (from other systems) ‣ Can report on the user’s interaction with it (how long after receiving this information did they react?) ‣ Tie in the “meta” of authoring tools/performance support

Let’s Talk Sims 20

Lessons 21 ‣ Can use xAPI to Manage State (can rebuild if desired, probably not useful in this interface, but multiple interfaces) ‣ HOW do people design? ‣ Stats, multi-user, specific contexts can make cool leaderboards ‣ Distributed processing

Virtual World Sandbox Game

Playing

Authoring

Andy Johnson Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Resources: xapi.adlnet.gov xapi.adlnet.gov * Image attribution from this presentation available upon request