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How to Analyse Therapeutic Games: The Player / Game / Therapy Model (Broacasting our studies)
In this paper, we present a new model to analyse therapeutic games. The goal of the model is to describe and analyse the relations between the three aspects of a therapeutic game: the player, the game, and the therapy. The model is intended to game designers. It is a tool to improve the communication between health experts and game designers, and to evaluate the game design coherency of therapeutic games. It also helps to analyse existing games to discover relevant features. The model is built w [...]Keywords : Video games, Evaluation, Analysis, Model, Game design, Serious games, Therapeutic
Serious Games: Issues, offer and market Education - Training - Health Care Information & Communication - Defence (3rd Edition) (Broacasting our studies)
This study examines the various market segments of Serious Gaming based on detailed case studies and a systematic presentation of the corresponding technologies, practices and know-how, while emphasising on the key stages of the design, development and dissemination phases. It also provides technology and business prospects for each market segment. Serious Gaming (SG) is at the crossroads of several disciplines: e-learning, computing, engineering, virtual world d [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Market, Evolution, Health, Defence, Education, Study, Training
For a typology of video games and serious games (Broacasting our studies)
Julian Alvarez will present the results of a study conducted at Orange Labs between June 2008 and September 2009, with a view to evaluating and analyzing the impact of serious game-type electronic communications on the general public (message perception, emotional reactions...). As the notion of impact cannot be reduced to these simple perimeters, these are the approaches that seem most accessible for starting this research work. Studying the impact of a serious game on individuals, or assessing [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Impact, Assessment
Serious Game Design - Theoretical and technical study of the creation of games aimed to serve serious purposes (Broacasting our studies)
Nowadays, videogames are an important part of popular culture. Although videogames are most famous as leisure, the wave of " Serious Games " aims to use them for a wide range of serious purposes: teaching, communication, therapy, professional training, advertising, political propaganda… This thesis focuses on the design of such " Serious Games ". More specifically, we will try to identify means able to ease the creation of Serious Games. To achieve this goal, we will f [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Game Design, creation, game creation toolkits, modding, videogames, constructionnism , pedagogy
Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious game - 1st approach (Broacasting our studies)
Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious gameImpact of the Serious game: 1st approach. Organization of e UGSG contest This article aims at bringing the tangible proof of any impact causedby the Serious game object on their users. The followed idea is to organizean international contest to have on the one hand a corpus ofstudy and on the other a comparison between our approach of theSerious game object and those of the developpers. The tangible proofis well lis [...]Keywords : Serious games, Creation, Evaluation, Impact, Perception
Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious game - 2nd approach (Broacasting our studies)
Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious game 2nd approach. Realization and diffusion of 3 Serious games This article presents the 2nd approach. This one initially aims to identifya public to play Serious games matching our approach of the object.Then, if we count such a public, the idea is to study it by questioning iton its relation with the object. To lead this study, we work out 3 Seriousgames filling our needs and study their diffusions and catch in hand [...]Keywords : Serious games, Audience, Impact, Diffusion, Multiplayer
Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious game - 3rd approach (Broacasting our studies)
Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious game 3rd approach. Creation of a Play & Rate 2.0 Website dedicated to Serious games This 3rd approach aims at studying more in detail the nature of the Seriousgames’ impact on the players. To drive this study, we develop a2.0 Internet site allowing the Net surfers to play Serious games and toevaluate them. With this tool, a panel of 121 people is questioned. Atthe end, we discover there exists a variety of di [...]Keywords : Serious games, Perception, Impact, Web 2.0, Evaluation
Muzax 21 - The Serious Games! (Broacasting our studies)
Ce numéro de Muzax va vous faire découvrir l’univers des « Serious Games ». Pour la première fois dans Muzax, je recevais 3 invités. Julian Alvarez, Docteur en science de l'information et de la communication. Damien Djaouti, Doctorant en Art et Informatique à l’Université de Toulouse. Et Olivier Batiste, grand joueur de jeux vidéo, ancien rédacteur et co-équipier dans l’&eacut [...]Keywords : Serious games
Producing video games to teach: Possible or not? (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of the round table is to present a number of serious game creation projects linked to various teaching areas, while highlighting the challenges and constraints involved in their production. Six projects will be at the heart of the round table: Kaisha, Jivé Maths, 2025 Ex Machina, Star Teachers, Donjons&Radon; and the Créteil academy's video game creation competition.Hosted by* Julian ALVAREZ, ICT / Serious Game consultant associated with IDATE, researcher at Ludoscience [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Education, Communication, Research and Development, Prevention, Awareness, Video game, Teaching