Serious Gordon: Using Serious Games to Teach Food Safety in the Kitchen.

Brian Mac Namee; Pauline Rooney; Patrick Lindstrom; Andrew Ritchie; Frances Boylan; Greg Burke

doi:10.21427/p3n6-jf20

Serious Gordon: Using Serious Games to Teach Food Safety in the Kitchen.

Brian Mac Namee, Pauline Rooney, Patrick Lindstrom, Andrew Ritchie, Frances Boylan, Greg Burke

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Abstract

This paper will describe the development of Serious Gordon, an interactive digital game developed to tech the basics of kitchen food safety to workers in industries dealing with food. The motivations driving the development of the game will be described as will the development process itself. An initial evaluation of the game, from both a technical and pedagogical point of view, will be presented as will conclusions on the viability of using a commercial game engine for the purpose of developing educational games.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21427/p3n6-jf20
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	9th. International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational and Serious Games CGAMES06 - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 22 Nov 2006 → 24 Nov 2006

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Conference	9th. International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational and Serious Games CGAMES06
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	22/11/06 → 24/11/06

Keywords

Serious Gordon
interactive digital game
kitchen food safety
food industry
development process
technical evaluation
pedagogical evaluation
commercial game engine
educational games

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Serious Gordon: Using Serious Games to Teach Food Safety in the Kitchen.

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