The paper entitled “A Serious Game for Mobile Phones used in a Software Engineering Course: Usability Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness” presented at the IEEE EDUCON 2021 conference received the best paper award in the category Serious Games, Game Based Learning and Gamification for Engineering Education. At the conference, 270 papers were presented with an acceptance rate of 42% and 4 were awarded each in each thematic category. The work presented is the product of a collaboration of two CEID graduates: Georgia Stamoulakatou (graduated in 2020 and now works at European Dynamics as a Business Analyst) who implemented the game within the M.Sc. Thesis, collected, and analyzed the data, and Semira-Maria Evangelou (graduated in 2019 and is now a PhD Candidate at CEID) who undertook the data analysis, paper writing and presentation.
