A Game Design Approach to Failure to Enhance Learning Games
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Claim: misspelling and mispronunciation enhance engagement for beginner readers when treated as playable failure. Built a functional prototype where kids drag scrambled letters into slots and hear results via text-to-speech Danish that blends letters into sounds, allowing nonwords and real words. A Spring 2024 pilot measures learning and affect using electrodermal activity and face expression recognition; results are collected and will determine whether the failure mechanic improves reading outcomes.
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