Quiz Lounge Game-Based Learning on Mobile Devices

• Main Author: Bettina Harriehausen-Mühlbauer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2013-08-01
• Series: Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
• Subjects: Game-Based Learning; multiple mobile platforms; e-learning; authoring tool; mobile learning; micro-learning; variable content
• Online Access: http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/iEA169TC.pdf

The Quiz Lounge project is a collaboration between Hochschule Darmstadt and Lufthansa AG. The goal of the project was the development of a mobile learning application. With the application, the Lufthansa managers should be able to learn about data privacy topics playfully and interactively. The application is based on a quiz concept and asks the user for answers to a series of ten questions which increase in difficulty level. While playing the game the user can use two "lifeline" helpers, the audience- and the 50-50-helper. Furthermore, the user has the ability to browse a glossary of related terms if he or she has the need of more detailed knowledge. New questions and also new games can be added with a web-based authoring tool. The authoring tool was uniquely developed for the Quiz Lounge application and conforms to the specific needs of its architecture.