Designing With Web - Part 3: week 1

Challenge career guidance experience for students using gaming

Group 4

Project 1: The Work Journey

Context

when? where? who? why?

The connecting thread leading our project is the increasing difficulties students and young professionals may meet in career guidance, iduring their studies or later when they are about to find a job. We decided to develop a simulation allowing players to live a realistic experience of the professional world thanks to experimenting occupations they are attracted to.

Target

for whom?

The simulation we created is a pedagogical tool, this way it is mostly adressed to 18-25 year-old people. We justify our choice because it seems to be the more accurate target according to our to our goal. Indeed, we are aiming to help students to find the right professional path.
However, to me even more clearer, we have the ambition to create a game, as didacticial than playful, so it would be a true leisure time for players no matter their age.

Service offered

what? how?

Services offered by our game are diverse. First things first, it has a pedagogical goal aiming to improve student career guidance during the construction of their professional path. In order to do so, it allows the player to commit himself in the working world. Indeed, through an avatar he/she would have created, he/she would be able to choose an occupation in a sector he/she is interested in and then to discover different missions related to the selected job.
Thanks to its immersive side, our simulation would help students to inscrease their knowledge and their comprehension of sectors in which they want to work. Moreover, private life is also impacted by his/her choics of career.
Then, career guidance is a stressing moment for students, it seems unquestionable for our game to be pedagogical but also playful. This way, he/she would be confronted to diverse ups and downs making their experience all the more entertaining.
Finally, our project has the objective to give self confidence to students about their skills to have jobs with responsabilities and that interest them.

Identity

describe the universe around your service by creating a mood board and name your service accordingly

Web interface

Our project will be a free application available on smartphones (Android, Apple), the user will only have to download it and then open it to begin the experience !
In order to start, the user will have to create his/her character which is completely personalisable, and then give informations about his/her scholarship, interests, sectors more likely to interest him/her and the occupation he/she is interested in.
Then, the player will have the possibility to select the occupation he/she wants if he/she already has an idea or to choose between the different recommandations delivered according to the information he/she has given.
Once this step done, the player will be immerged in the game under the form of the character he/she have the control of. This way, he/she will start his/her career from scratch and his/her evolution, on the professional and personal sides, will depend on the choices made and the ability of the player to face the unpredictable.
About the gameplay, it will be strongly inspired by other games from the same genre (Sims, Second Life, Imvu), at the exception of the experience of professional life we aim to highlight and to develop.

Benchmark

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Project 2: Guide Me

Context

when? where? who? why?

Career guidence for students is a thorny issue in our society. Indeed, a well-guided student will be able to blossom in his/her studies, and later on at work et will find his/place in society. However, career guidance methods used in schools are often inappropriate compared to students' states of minds and interests. Moreover, students are often unequal when facing this challenge : some of them can be helped by relatives, social environment or a paid guidance conselor when it is only a dream for others. Guide Me is a mobile application allowing students but also anyone dealing with occupational restraining to test different interactive experiences in order to find the best fitting sector and occupation according to their way of thinking, lifestyle, and skills. Career guidance is interactive and playful.

Target

for whom?

This service targets in priority students, from secondary school to college, willing to find the best professional path in which they could blossom. Indeed, this age bracket is particularly at ease when playing inline et will be all the more interested in an application which, through play-based questions, will lead them to a better profile and discover themselves.
Moreover, this application can be used by adults in occupation retraining willing to finally bloom in their professional life.
A first test will allow to define the users' profile in order to suggest several orientation possibilities adapted to their past and career experience.

Service offered

what? how?

This service has the objective to guide students and adults in occupational retraining in a play-based way and connecting several existing methods and questions.
Three kinds of tests will be taken into account :


The user creating a profile on the application will be able to choose to project himself in the future (projective tests), what will help to define his/her expectations. He/She will also be able to fill interests questionnaires in order to target his/her tastes, then psychometric tests allowing to highlight the student's cognitive skills.
An algorithm will classify the different answers to establish a compatibility score with different sectors but also with different occupations within the sectors.
In order to make it playful, words will be at anyone's level and the user will be immerged in situations that will not make him/her feel like taking a test.

Web interface

It is a free application available on Android and Apple, the user only has to download the application and then open it to play.
To begin, he/she would have to create a profile, choose an already existing character and fill the name, the age but also professional or academic background.
Then the user has the choice to choose between 3 different kinds of tests :


For each category, 20 questions are asked to the user.
At the end of the process, an algorithm will analize the answers generating new data to the profile in ordre to define more precisely the sector of activity and the occupation that seems to be the best fit.

Identity

describe the universe around your service by creating a mood board and name your service accordingly

Benchmark

List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project

References

books/films/articles/...