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The IDATE Serious Games Study now available for free! (Blog post)
The IDATE institute proposes for free the 2010 Serious Games study. It is the 2nd edition. The first one was published in 2008. The serious gaming market is of considerable importance. As the link between traditional video games and practical software, serious games offer a genuine opportunity to develop a sector that is all too often considered a niche. Furthermore, they offer huge potential for growth: "In 2008,” comments Laurent Michaud, project leader of the report [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Serious Gaming, Market, Health, Communication, Advertising, Military, Education
The affiliation between student achievement and elements of gamification in learning science (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:Gamification is a new form of approach that is being looked into in the world of education. With its game elements that relates to the needs of the current generation of users whose life is entangled in the world of technology. Yet the use of technology is not a one size fits all deal; thus it is important to identify how certain gamification elements influences students. This is vital point that needs to be understood before endeavouring further into the infusion of gamification in edu [...]Keywords : secondary school, student achievement, gamification element, science learning
Military and Defence Applications (Broacasting our studies)
AbstractVirtual environments are synthetic computer simulations that represent activities at a high degree of realism, and which are presented to a user in such a way that s/he temporarily suspends belief and accepts them as real environments (see Witmer & Singer, 1998). Virtual Environments (VEs) allow people to communicate as avatars, which are digital visual projections that represent a synthetic reality (Fox & Ahn, 2013), so that individuals can change aspects of their identity, [...]Keywords : Defence, Serious game
Summarising the 7 Dimensions of an Action-Oriented Framework for Video Games (Broacasting our studies)
AbstractThis article summarises our Ph.D. thesis – an analytical view on the player-game relationship through the lens of an action-oriented framework, centred on fundamental entities defined as actors, entities through which action is enacted in the game and of which the player and the game system are a part of. With this in mind, the grounding principles of this framework are seeded in a transition of action into experience, based on communicational systems that structure the dynamic for [...]Keywords : Action, Chronology, Design, Responsiveness, Thinking and Actuation, Transcoding, Video Games, Depth
Introduction to the special issue? Evaluation in serious games? (Broacasting our studies)
Since 2002, there has been a growing interest in serious games, thanks to the prospects they promise to offer in terms of prevention, training, education, learning, therapy, communication, training, data collection and more.Ten years later, in 2012, the first e-virtuoses international scientific symposium dedicated to studying the impact of serious games was held in Valenciennes. Entitled “Evaluating and measuring the impact of serious games”, the colloquium aimed to help sponsors, p [...]Keywords : Serious game, Evaluation
Playing in 7D An Action-Oriented Framework for Video Games (Broacasting our studies)
Grounded on a perspective in which action is a defining trait in video games, this work proposes the development of an action-oriented framework focused on the analysis of the relationships between the player and the game system centred on the existence of actors, which we define as entities responsible for the actions that affect the game – a category in which the player and the game system are included. We describe the grounding principles of this framework as focused on a transformation [...]Keywords : Action, Chronology, Responsiveness, Thinking and Actuation, Transcoding, Video Games, Design, Depth
Exploring cultural heritage landscapes in an interactive game-based learning application (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:This study presents a tool which supports the exploration of the landscape of ancient Amphipolis. Users can navigate into the landscape using an animated Pegasus cartoon and they are guided by an ancient philosopher cartoon. Once a student reaches a point of interest teaching material of various forms (i.e. text, images, video and external sources) appear. Following, the study of the material, students can take up a quiz to test their knowledge. The application has been evaluated with t [...]Keywords : 5G mobile communication, Artificial intelligence, FAA, Three-dimensional displays, Conferences, Iron
Game Design of Therapeutic Games : Models and methods to design the gameplay (Broacasting our studies)
This PhD thesis explores the field of therapeutic games in order to propose methods and tools for the game designer of such games. The most fundamental design problem of therapeutic games is the gameplay, ie. the game objectives and the actions the player does to address the objectives. In therapeutic game, the gameplay must, at the same time, provide the therapeutic effects and motivate the patient to follow his protocol. The sub-problems of this are 1. the two-fold evaluation (medical and moti [...]Keywords : Serious game, Health, Health game, Gameplay