Jacqui Lewis, Terry Yarnall and representatives from the PAUSE user groups

Working with migrants and refugees to develop games to

tackle discrimination in the workplace

UK/10/LLP-LdV/TOI-328 - This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This presentation reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held

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Nottingham Trent University

Greenhat Interactive Ltd

Provincia di Parma

Swedish Telepedagogic

Knowledge Centre

Project Partners

To remove attitudinal and discriminatory barriers to employment for newly arrived migrants refugees & ethnic minorities.

Project Aim

To remove attitudinal and discriminatory barriers to employment for newly

arrived migrants refugees & ethnic minorities.

To produce 3D scenario games that will be used by employers in equality/diversity training and by service users in employment preparation programmes.

To make sure that the issues and barriers to employment addressed are those most relevant and real to our user groups.

To support user groups to produce their own narratives for the games to ensure that the real issues for the target group are addressed.

Project Objectives

To produce 3D scenario games that will be used by employers in equality/diversity training and by service users in employment preparation programmes.

To make sure that the issues and barriers to employment addressed are those most relevant and real to our user groups.

To support user groups to produce their own narratives for the games to ensure that the real issues for the target group are addressed.

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•Scoping of refugee issues and experiences in seeking work

•Scoping of skills gaps in job search

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•Prioritisation of major barriers to employment

•Finalisation of scenarios for development

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•Group creation of narrative relating to Job Centres

•Group creation of narrative relating to job interviews

User Created Content

Developed using Microsoft XNA and .net frameworks

◦ Potential to be distributed via desktop, mobile and Xbox 360

◦ Customizable content creation by stakeholders◦ Multilingual, currently supporting three languages◦ Runs on low spec machines◦ Range of input devices, Game Pad, Keyboard,

Mouse

Game Engine & Authoring Tools

Centro per l’Impiego

Recruitment Interview

The UK Job Centre

The Job Interview

And now……..

Results – the User Group Experience

Over to the User Group !

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