Ethical stewardship: designing serious games seriously

Alyea Sandovar; Eelco Braad; Heinrich Söbke; Alexander Streicher

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Ethical stewardship: designing serious games seriously

Alyea Sandovar, Eelco Braad, Heinrich Söbke, Alexander Streicher

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Abstract

In this chapter, we propose an ethical framework for serious game design, which we term the Ecosystem for Designing Games Ethically (EDGE).
EDGE expands on Zagal’s categorization of ethical areas in game design by incorporating the different contexts of design and their use. In addition, we leverage these contexts to suggest four guidelines that support Ethical Stewardship in serious game design. We conclude by discussing a number of specific areas in
which ethics plays a role in serious game design. These include games in (a) a
military context, (b) the consideration of privacy issues, and (c) the evaluation of
game design choices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Entertainment computing and serious games
Editors	Ralf Dörner, Stefan Göbel, Michael Kickmeier-Rust, Maic Masuch, Katharina Zweig
Publisher	Springer
Pages	42-62
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-46152-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-46151-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46152-6_3
Publication status	Published - Sept 2016
Event	Dagstuhl Seminar "Entertainment Computing and Serious Games" - Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern, Germany Duration: 5 Jul 2015 → 10 Jul 2015 http://www.dagstuhl.de/de/programm/kalender/evhp/?semnr=15283

Publication series

Series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	9970
ISSN	0302-9743

Seminar

Seminar	Dagstuhl Seminar "Entertainment Computing and Serious Games"
Abbreviated title	Dagstuhl Seminar 15283
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Wadern
Period	5/07/15 → 10/07/15
Internet address	http://www.dagstuhl.de/de/programm/kalender/evhp/?semnr=15283

Keywords

serious game design
information ethics
ethical stewardship
military games
educational games
ethical intelligence
design politics
values in design
data privacy
video game design
values at play
game design values

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Sandovar, A, Braad, E, Söbke, H & Streicher, A 2016, Ethical stewardship: designing serious games seriously. in R Dörner, S Göbel, M Kickmeier-Rust, M Masuch & K Zweig (eds), Entertainment computing and serious games. Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9970, pp. 42-62, Dagstuhl Seminar "Entertainment Computing and Serious Games", Wadern, Germany, 5/07/15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46152-6_3

Ethical stewardship : designing serious games seriously. / Sandovar, Alyea; Braad, Eelco; Söbke, Heinrich et al.

Entertainment computing and serious games. ed. / Ralf Dörner; Stefan Göbel; Michael Kickmeier-Rust; Maic Masuch; Katharina Zweig. Springer, 2016. p. 42-62 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9970).

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