MainTrain

A Serious Game on the Complexities of Rail Maintenance

Conference paper (2019)

Authors

K. Valečkaitė Design Informatics - Architecture and the Built Environment
N. Ziliotto Salamon Computer Graphics and Visualisation - EEMCS
J.T. Balint Computer Graphics and Visualisation - EEMCS
Rafael Bidarra Computer Graphics and Visualisation - EEMCS
Research Group
Computer Graphics and Visualisation (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2019 David Alderliesten, K. Valečkaitė, N. Ziliotto Salamon, J.T. Balint, Rafael Bidarra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11548-7_8
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Published Date

2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Intelligent Systems

Research Group

Computer Graphics and Visualisation

Abstract

Commuters who travel by train often feel annoyed due to misunderstanding the causes of delays in train traffic. They oftentimes are unaware of the necessity of performing maintenance to stations, tracks, and trains. MainTrain is a serious game developed to teach commuters about rail-maintenance while simulating the difficulty of keeping passengers happy. It is a fast-paced strategy game with a top-down view in which a player can perform maintenance actions on stations, tracks, and trains. By using commuter happiness as a base metric, MainTrain attempts to elicit empathy from players dissatisfied with scheduled maintenance so that they gain a better appreciation of the need for scheduled maintenance. This is coupled with the need to schedule maintenance for several components of a rail network, encumbering a player while teaching them about different aspects of rail maintenance. To examine the effectiveness of the game, the results of a user study are presented.

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