Using Computer Game to Share
Knowledge
1Mazeyanti
M Ariffin, 2Nazleeni Samiha Haron @ Baharon and
3Mohd Izad Che Muda
1,2,3Computer & Information Sciences Dept
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
31750 Tronoh, Perak, MALAYSIA
{1,2} @petronas.com.my, {3} @gmail.com
Using Game to Transfer
Knowledge CISSE 2009
Mazeyanti, Nazleeni, Mohd Izad
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Introduction
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Sharing knowledge is the key dimension of a learning
organization for sustaining competitiveness
Hence, organization must encourage people to learn
from each other or in other words to share
knowledge among themselves.
Variety mechanisms to share and transfer knowledge
among knowledge workers are being used nowadays
which depends on the nature of transferring
knowledge such as mentoring, face-to-face meeting,
cross-functional and electronics means to share
knowledge.
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Motivations
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Scholars claimed that simulation game
can encourage human learning as
players are able to make meaning
during the play.
This paper proposes to use simulation
game as an alternative mechanism to
share knowledge.
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Objective
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A simulation game called FireHazard is
developed and tested to selected
participants.
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Scope of study
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Players were selected from Health and
Safety department, lecturers and
students who have no experience in
playing the FireHazard game but have
prior experience in playing other
computer games.
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Literature Review
What is knowledge?
Knowledge is actionable information that leads
to relevant action [8].
Reference [9] further added that knowledge is
defined as human understanding of
specialized field of interest that has been
acquired through study and experience.
An individual collect knowledge based on
learning, studying, thinking and experience.
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Literature Review
What is Knowledge Sharing?
Knowledge sharing is defined as the
transmission of knowledge from one source
to another source and use of the transmitted
knowledge [9].
Knowledge sharing as when the receiver’s (e.g.,
group, department, or division) performance
is affected by the experience of the sender
[14]
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Literature Review
Knowledge sharing mechanisms
Organizations need to use different way or
mechanism to share knowledge within the
organization because knowledge exist in
many forms – tacit and explicit
The type of knowledge sharing mechanisms is
highly depends on the type of knowledge to
be shared [17]
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Literature Review
Knowledge sharing mechanism – current
method
People share knowledge through transfer of
people, forums (internal
conferences/meetings), boundary spanners,
periodicals, audits, benchmarking, best
practice, guidelines and international teams
[17].
Many scholars like [18] claim that the effective
tool to achieve share knowledge is to use
computer-aided systems.
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Literature Review
Game & Simulations
Reference [28] proposed that simulation can help people to learn
without the need to develop costly training simulations.
In other research conducted by [25], they proposed that computer
simulation may be used to help in adults’ learning skills
particularly in business skills.
Simulations and games are well accepted as a method that has
impact on teaching and learning especially in military and
aviation settings [27,28].
Reference [29,30,25], further support these claims by saying
games and simulation are a powerful alternative to teach and
learn as compared to conventional ways since this method is
able to facilitate experiential learning.
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Methodology
FireHazard game architecture
FIGURE 1: Architecture of FireHazard
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Methodology
TABLE 2: Description of FireHazard Main Components
Description
Component
Knowledge Repository
Consists of tutorials and video clips about how to put out fire
using the correct techniques. The players have to read the
tutorials and watch the videos before playing the game.
FireHazard game
The main portion of the FireHazard application. The game
consists of three levels depicting three different scenarios.
Scoring System
The scoring system receives the scores from the game and
calculates the total score using various pre-determined
formulas.
Score Database
Stores the score of all players which consists of the subtotal
score for each level and the total score for all three levels.
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Methodology
FIGURE 3: Game flow of FireHazard
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Result & Discussion - User
interface
FIGURE 4: FireHazard interface
FIGURE 5: FireHazard interface
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Result & Discussion
The results exhibit that all 25
players obtain consistent scores
throughout
their
games.
Additionally, most of the players
got more than 80 marks as the
total score. Based on the results,
we can infer that the players have
successfully practice and applied
the newly acquired knowledge
obtained.
TABLE 3: result of playing FireHazard simulation game
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Conclusion
FireHazard is suitable to simulate ‘real’ situation
in a controlled environment (increase level of
richness).
As conducting the real situation is risky and
costly, FireHazard simulation game able to
provide ‘artificial’ experience to the players
FireHazard is suitable to share knowledge for
large audience (increase level of reachness)
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Thank you…
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