Exploring the Efficiency of a Digital Simulation Game for Vocational Training : An experimental approach

• Main Author: Forsell, Adam
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi 2018
• Subjects: Serious Game; NEET; Food; Runner; Transferability; Experiment; Table; Memory; Restaurant; Service; Simulation; Skills; Pilot; t-Test; Turnover; Employee; Rate; Transfer; Effectiveness; Interaction Technologies; Interaktionsteknik
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-16526

This thesis covers an experiment which explores how effectively skills that are gained in a digital serious game can be transferred to a real situation. The context of the experiment is the casual restaurant industry, with focus on the task of a food runner. The results showed to be unreliable when ruling out the chance element with the use of t-tests, which points to that the data produced were coincidental, however the limited deviation in the groups’ performances indicate that there is potential in the addition of a digital game to the traditional training material. This is learned from the reports of the experiments and the analysis of the questionnaires filled out by all the participators.