The commission has gone to tender for help with ‘gamifying’ electoral education, including through the use of VR.
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) wants to make voting fun, or at least make it feel like a game. It has this week gone to tender for help with “gamifying” electoral education, seeking specifically a solution for visitors to its National Electoral Education Centre (NEEC) in Canberra and those that wish to play online. The initiative is a part of the NEEC refurbishment project, which will include the redevelopment of the existing interactive space it has to include “self-directed activities carried out in a gamified 3D virtual world that visitors will access through touchscreens”. “The AEC also has a separate requirement to provide self-directed electoral education through a 3D gamified virtual world that will be accessible to a broad audience through a browser, or less ideally, through an app or downloadable executable,” the commission explains in the tender’s statement of requirements. This will be referred to as AEC Virtual Ed (AVE). “The solution must be designed in a manner where activities in each module contribute towards a shared overall goal, such as helping the AEC achieve a successful election,” it said.
