AppQ
initial results and next challenges
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5821/jida.2022.11639Keywords:
mobile application, gamification, videogame, architectural composition, educational innovation projectAbstract
AppQuitectura is a reinforcement tool for learning the subjects of the Architectural Composition Knowledge Area, which uses the game to encourage the approach to the more theoretical subjects of architectural studies. Created as an educational innovation project obtained in a competitive call of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), it consists of a game of questions and answers, with weekly challenges, which tries to take advantage of the widespread use of mobile phones among university students. After a year of hard work by a multidisciplinary team made up of UPM professors from the fields of Architecture and Computer Science, this communication reviews the first tests carried out after its design and before its definitive launch to students, which have detected small errors, but, above all, have shown the possibilities of success of the tool in the student community.
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