City Settlers

Posted by Meagan Postema on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 in Uncategorized.

City Settlers is a multiplayer city management game/simulation intended to convey complex ideas embedded in enacted social play configurations and moves around sustainable development. Additionally, we are currently extending it through multimodal data platforms for supporting rich real time teacher and learner orchestration tools, as well as pathways to support cross domain learning connecting city development concepts with domains like civics and history.

https://www.pixelplaygrounds.org/citysettlers

How to Get Involved:

The City Settlers team is excited to develop and test further iterations of City Settlers with multimodal analytics outfitted spaces and pipelines. This can likely ease and open up the pathway to exploring rich and complex ways that this data can be presented in useful manners to teachers across a variety of domains.

City Settlers Co-PI

Vishesh Kumar

Assistant Professor, Teaching and Learning

External Collaborators

City Settlers Co-PI: Mike Tissenbaum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Core Publications

Kumar, V., Tissenbaum, M. B., & Kim, T. (2021). Procedural Collaboration in Educational Games: Supporting Complex System Understandings in Immersive Whole Class Simulations. Communication Studies, 72(6), 994-1016.

Kumar, V., Jayathirtha, G., Halverson, E., Carter-Stone, L., Leander, K., Tissenbaum, M., … & Litts, B. K. (2020). Becoming together: Creating and looking at collaborations as learning products.

Kumar, V., & Tissenbaum, M. (2019, June). City settlers: Participatory games to build sustainable cities. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM international conference on interaction design and children (pp. 660-663).

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