Title
Learning geothermal energy basics with the serious game hotpipe
Author
Mac An Bhaird, Liam (Student TU Delft)
Al Owayyed, Mohammed (Student TU Delft)
van Driel, Ronald (Student TU Delft)
Jiang, Huinan (Student TU Delft)
Johannessen, Runar A. (Student TU Delft)
Ziliotto Salamon, N. (TU Delft Computer Graphics and Visualisation) 
Balint, J.T. (TU Delft Computer Graphics and Visualisation)
Bidarra, Rafael (TU Delft Computer Graphics and Visualisation)
Contributor
Liapis, Antonios (editor)
Yannakakis, Georgios N. (editor)
Gentile, Manuel (editor)
Ninaus, Manuel (editor)
Date
2019
Abstract
Burning fossil fuels is a big part of our heat production. Since this process is both non-renewable and polluting, finding other options is important. A clean and underutilized alternative is geothermal energy. However, it is often not considered due to sheer ignorance or misconceptions. HotPipe is a serious game designed to alleviate these problems, particularly among youth populations. Players control a drill to create geothermal wells solving a variety of puzzles, which introduce relevant cases for geothermal heating and show what geothermal wells are made of. The game focuses primarily on conveying the concepts of water circulation, relation between temperature and depth, androck type proprieties. From our game evaluation, players revealed a solid improvement on their geothermal energy knowledge.
Subject
Doublet
Drilling
Geothermal heating
Puzzle
Renewable energy
Sandstone
Serious games
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34350-7_30
Publisher
Springer, Cham
Embargo date
2020-05-01
ISBN
978-3-030-34349-1
Source
Games and Learning Alliance: 8th International Conference, GALA 2019, Proceedings, 11899
Event
8th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2019, 2019-11-27 → 2019-11-29, Athens, Greece
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 0302-9743, 11899
Bibliographical note
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2019 Liam Mac An Bhaird, Mohammed Al Owayyed, Ronald van Driel, Huinan Jiang, Runar A. Johannessen, N. Ziliotto Salamon, J.T. Balint, Rafael Bidarra