ECGBL 2022-Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Games Based Learning

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 16^TH European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2022), hosted by Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal on 6-7 October 2022. The Conference Chair is Conceição Costa, and the Programme Chairs are Filipe Luz and Nuno Fachada, all from Lusófona University.

ECGBL is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 16^th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics, from game design to differences and benefits of both digital and board games and augmented reality as literacy tools and pedagogies of learning, wellbeing and gender in gaming are also addressed in ECGBL2022.

The opening keynote presentation is given by Petros Lameras, Coventry University, UK, on the topic of Designing Serious Games through Research: A Relational Perspective. The second day of the conference will open with an address by Patrícia Gouveia, Lisbon University Fine Arts Faculty [Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, ITI/LARSyS FBAUL], will talk about Eco gaming: How feminism and play are key to changing the world.

With an initial submission of 168 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 85 Academic research papers, 5 PhD research papers, Masters Research papers and 3 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, The Netherlands, UK, USA and Vietnam.