APPLICABILITY OF THE LEARNABILITY ATTRIBUTES IN SERIOUS GAME DESIGN: THE CASE OF DIGITAL FORENSIC GAME DESIGN

Digital forensics is a rapidly growing and emerging field, which is considered as a part of information/computer security. Nowadays, the expansion of cybercrime incidents and criminal acts are becoming oppressive and the proper education and training in the digital forensic area are becoming very important due to the increasing demand for the professionals in this field. The study presented in the paper is a contribution to the educational game design advancement by providing the participants empirical experience close to the real life environment. The positive correlation between the gaming and the test scores points out that gaming during learning positively stimulates the development of the essential skills, know-hows and abilities, such as problem solving, strategic thinking, memory, fantasy, interaction and adaptation to the learning focus, which are elements well captured by the standardized checks in particular subjects. The goal of the obtained research was also to find out whether the learning attributes acknowledged in the upgraded taxonomy can be applied within a game designing process, as their usability was studied only in the assessment of already existing and popular significant games. The in-built in game learnability properties are based on the lately enhanced taxonomy game used for assessment and evaluation of educational results. The course design of the game is described and the learnability properties are estimated through survey and the observation of the participants.