Development of an educational application using HCD toolkit and open data on the recife culture

Abstract

This paper presents the Human-Centered Design process (HCD) applied in the context of educational games using open data about cultural aspects of the city of Recife. The main objective of the work is the collaborative development of an application for smartphones, entitled "Recife Games", which provides an entertaining way to learn about Recife culture. The methodology for the application development was based on the HCD Toolkit and Jakob Nielsen's usability criteria and heuristics. We also used two interaction design techniques, Skeumorfism and Flat Design. The work includes the steps proposed in the human centered design, starting with the specification of a strategic challenge and the following three main phases: Listen, Create and Deploy. Finally, we present statistics related to the application usage on Android platform, that shown relevant user acceptance of "Recife Games".