City Settlers
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.
How to Get Involved:
City Settlers Co-PI
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).