A Pedagogical Authoring Platform for AI-Enhanced Educational Role-Playing Games in Requirements Engineering
Resumo
Requirements Engineering (RE) education requires students to develop technical competencies and interpersonal skills through realistic learning experiences. Although numerous educational games have demonstrated the potential of game-based learning for RE education, existing approaches are typically implemented as standalone applications designed for predefined educational scenarios. This paper proposes an AI-enhanced authoring platform that enables instructors to create customized educational Role-Playing Games (RPGs) for RE without requiring expertise in game development. The platform adopts a pedagogical authoring model in which instructors configure knowledge topics, Bloom-based learning objectives, narrative structures, non-player characters, and assessment strategies. During gameplay, Large Language Models integrated with Retrieval-Augmented Generation support adaptive dialogue generation and AI-assisted formative assessment. A conceptual demonstration illustrates the authoring of an educational RPG covering RE activities, including stakeholder interviews, requirements specification, software modeling, and formative assessment. The proposed approach provides a reusable authoring environment that combines educational design, generative artificial intelligence, and game technologies to facilitate the development of adaptive educational RPGs for RE education.
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Mei Teng Soo and Hazleen Aris. 2018. Game-Based Learning in Requirements Engineering: An Overview. In 2018 IEEE Conference on e-Learning, e-Management and e-Services (IC3e). 46–51. DOI: 10.1109/IC3e.2018.8632650
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Monielle Vieira and Marcelo Barbosa. 2011. Desenvolvimento e avaliação de jogo de treinamento para ensino de técnicas de elicitação de requisitos de software. In II ENINED - Encontro Nacional de Informática e Educação. Belo Horizonte, MG, 312–321.
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Lorin W. Anderson, David R. Krathwohl, Peter W. Airasian, Kathleen A Cruikshank, Richard E Mayer, Paul R. Pintrich, James Rathus, and Merlin C. Wittrock. 2001. A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Pearson.
Sarah Beecham, Nathan Baddoo, Tracy Hall, Hugh Robinson, and Helen Sharp. 2008. Motivation in Software Engineering: A systematic literature review. Information and Software Technology 50 (08 2008), 860–878. DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.09.004
Charles C. Bonwell and James A. Eison. 1991. Active learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom. George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Susan M. Brookhart and James H. McMillan. 2019. Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement (second ed.). Routledge.
Luis Henrique Carvalho Rosa, Giliane Bernardi, and Roseclea Duarte Medina. 2021. Mundos virtuais como apoio ao ensino e aprendizagem de engenharia de software: Simulando a técnica de entrevista. RENOTE 19, 1 (jul. 2021), 371–381. DOI: 10.22456/1679-1916.118527
Amaresh Chakrabarti. 2010. A course for teaching design research methodology. Artif. Intell. Eng. Des. Anal. Manuf. 24, 3 (Aug. 2010), 317–334. DOI: 10.1017/S0890060410000223
Fabiano Dalpiaz and Kendra M.L. Cooper. 2020. Games for Requirements Engineers: Analysis and Directions. IEEE Software 37, 1 (2020), 50–59. DOI: 10.1109/MS.2018.227105450
Marian Daun, Alicia M Grubb, Viktoria Stenkova, and Bastian Tenbergen. 2022. A Systematic Literature Review of Requirements Engineering Education. Requirements Engineering 28, 2 (2022), 311 – 339. DOI: 10.1007/s00766-022-00381-9, Cited by: 0.
Francesca De Luzi, Flavia Monti, and Massimo Mecella. 2025. Engineering Information Systems with Large Language Models. Springer. 287 pages.
Nícolas Debacher, Luis Kuster, Ana Santos, Adilson Vahldick, and Fernando Santos. 2023. Back to the Promotion - EvacSIM: a Serious Game to Practice Requirements Elicitation on an Agent-based Simulation. In Anais do XX Encontro Nacional de Inteligência Artificial e Computacional (Belo Horizonte/MG). SBC, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, 169–183. DOI: 10.5753/eniac.2023.233872
Ivan García, Carla Pacheco, Andrés León, and Jose A. Calvo-Manzano. 2020. A serious game for teaching the fundamentals of ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 systems and software engineering – Lifecycle processes – Requirements engineering at undergraduate level. Computer Standards & Interfaces 67 (2020), 103377. DOI: 10.1016/j.csi.2019.103377
Laurence Hanes and Robert Stone. 2019. Applying constrained virtual environments to serious games for heritage. International Journal of Serious Games 6 (03 2019), 93–116. DOI: 10.17083/ijsg.v6i1.294
Alan R. Hevner, Salvatore T. March, Jinsoo Park, and Sudha Ram. 2004. Design Science in Information Systems Research. Management Information Systems Quarterly 28 (03 2004), 75–105.
Michael Hitchens and Anders Drachen. 2008. The Many faces of role-playing games. International Journal of Role-Playing 1 (2008), 3–21.
ISO/IEC/IEEE. 2018. ISO/IEC/IEEE International Standard - Systems and software engineering – Life cycle processes – Requirements engineering. ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148:2018(E) (2018), 1–104. DOI: 10.1109/IEEESTD.2018.8559686
Paul Iusztin and Maxime Labonne. 2024. LLM Engineer’s Handbook: Master the art of engineering large language models from concept to production. Packt Publishing, 11 St Paul’s Square Birmingham B3 1RB, UK.
Eduardo Lemos, Marcelo Henrique Conceição, Felipe Becker Nunes, Roseclea Duarte Medina, and Giliane Bernardi. 2020. AD-RPG: Elicitando requisitos na idade média utilizando um jogo educacional. In Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE) 2020. 1763–1772. [link]
Kuo-Yu Liu, Chang-Ta Yang, and Kuei-Hsiang Chang. 2012. Development of a multiplayer online role-playing game-based learning system for multiple curriculums. Proceedings 2012 4th IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2012 (2012), 62 – 66. DOI: 10.1109/DIGITEL.2012.18, Cited by: 7.
Giani Petri and Natiel C. Chiavegatti. 2015. Um Role Playing Game para o Ensino de Elicitação e Análise de Requisitos. Revista Novas Tecnologias na Educação 13, 1 (jul. 2015). DOI: 10.22456/1679-1916.57599
Marc Prensky. 2007. Digital Game-Based Learning. Paragon House, New York City, NY.
Victor Travassos Sarinho, Victoria Oliveira Gomes, and Walter Travassos Sarinho. 2019. Erquiz: A multiplayer multiplatform instant messaging game for the competitive assessment of requirements engineering knowledge. In Proceedings of the XVIII SBGames. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, 591–594.
Jarbele Silva, Silvia Sousa, Raoni Kulesza, and Alisson Brito. 2012. Uma avaliação do emprego do jogo Modelando como apoio ao ensino de Engenharia de Requisitos. In Anais do XX Workshop sobre Educação em Computação (Curitiba/PR). SBC, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, 240–250. [link]
Ian Sommerville. 2019. Software Engineering (10 ed.). Pearson.
Mei Teng Soo and Hazleen Aris. 2018. Game-Based Learning in Requirements Engineering: An Overview. In 2018 IEEE Conference on e-Learning, e-Management and e-Services (IC3e). 46–51. DOI: 10.1109/IC3e.2018.8632650
SWEBOK. 2024. Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide), Version 4.0. IEEE.
Monielle Vieira and Marcelo Barbosa. 2011. Desenvolvimento e avaliação de jogo de treinamento para ensino de técnicas de elicitação de requisitos de software. In II ENINED - Encontro Nacional de Informática e Educação. Belo Horizonte, MG, 312–321.
Imran Zualkernan, Michel Pasquier, Maram M. Jibreel, Rim S. Zakaria, and Rawan M. Tayem. 2010. An adaptive learning RPG game-engine based on knowledge spaces. In 2010 2nd International Conference on Education Technology and Computer, Vol. 2. V2–223–V2–227. DOI: 10.1109/ICETC.2010.5529397
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08/09/2026
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CORRÊA, Chessman; XEXÉO, Geraldo.
A Pedagogical Authoring Platform for AI-Enhanced Educational Role-Playing Games in Requirements Engineering. In: WORKSHOP SOBRE ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE PARA DESENVOLVIMENTO DE JOGOS (SE4GAMES), 2. , 2026, São Paulo/SP.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/se4games.2026.33083.
