ARK4 Workshop in Athens

Date: 2015-02-07

In the context of the research project Ark4, a cooperation project between 4 Institutions of Trondheim, Norway: NTNU UB; IDI; Regional State Archives andDeaf Museum, a workshop was held at the DCU – Athena R.C. (Athens) on February 7 2015. The first prototype was launched in June 2014 when 12 students from the Steiner school in Trondheim participated to a workshop about plants in collaboration with Ringve Botanical garden, Vitenskapmuseet in Trondheim and Bjørn Sæther. Similarly, another ARK4 workshop on botany and plants was recently held at DCU – Athena R.C and was organized in collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Athens. School children of the ages 10 to 17 participated in this. The introduction was presented by the botanist, Gabriella Papastefanou, while the game was offered on a touch-screen by the IT expert Ioannis Lefteriotis. The kids answered a knowledge test before and following the game as well as a survey about the quality of the gaming experience they had. At the end, they were interviewed by two DCU colleagues, Agiatis Benardou and Eliza Papaki, who were also observing the participants during the ARK4 application. The results of this qualitative research will be published in a report.