LudoScience

Opening of the LUDOSCIENCE Collection on HAL Sciences (Blog post)

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Ludoscience collection on the #HAL database: https://hal.science/LUDOSCIENCE    This collection brings together all the publications posted on HAL concerning studies on games, serious games, video games, gamification, games, play, etc. We encourage authors to submit books, articles, dissertations, posters, videos, podcasts and games. Many thanks to sebastien mazzarese for putting together this fine collection, which we hope wi [...]

Keywords : Serious Game, Database, Research, Collection, Game studies, Gamification, Video game, Scientific studies

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Keywords related to the hal.science/LUDOSCIENCE collection (Broacasting our studies)

xls file containing all the keywords used to list articles related to the study of games, serious games, edutainment, gamified devices... on the hal.science/LUDOSCIENCE collection. If you wish to submit a document to HAL and appear in the Ludoscience collection, you can choose from the list of keywords contained in this list.     

Keywords : Database, Collection, Archiving

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Datagame: gamifying crowdsourcing and sharing the wealth? (Broacasting our studies)

This presentation proposes to challenge one of the criteria proposed by Roger Caillois to define both play and game. This criterion is the 4th in relation to unproductivity. Based on the Datagame, a game category belonging to the Serious Game, we propose to demonstrate by a hypothetic-deductive approach our breaking with this fourth criterion. The key to the demonstration lies in the exploration of the concept of Datagame and the identification of associated sub-categories.

Keywords : Datagame, Serious game, Video game, Health game, Gamification, Database, Crowdsourcing

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Supporting Collaborative Serious Game Studies Online (Broacasting our studies)

AbstractWhile a lot of papers have argued for the educational potential of serious games, the field is still young and methods and tools are needed in order to support effective and efficient design. The SG Studies Database is an instrument devised to allow sharing structured information about SGs. This information can be used by scholars and practitioners also to perform comparative analysis and identify components and modules that could be used in different games. The SG Studies database, whic [...]

Keywords : Personal Computing, Computers and Education, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Software Engineering

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Towards Virtual Rehabilitation: Hand Gesture Controlled Games to Improve Cognitive and Motor Skills of Children with Special Needs (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract Recent advancement of the technology on hand gesture tracking devices provided new opportunities for Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Although great progress has been made by leveraging devices like Leap Motion, most of the focus is on the entertainment domain. This research project focuses towards virtual rehabilitation using serious games, by improving the cognitive and motor skills of the children with special needs. Proposed hypothesis included the implementation of 3D mouse t [...]

Keywords : Serious game

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Critical elements underpinning the emergence of the medical game ecosystem: gamifying traumatic brain injury rehabilitation in Finland (Broacasting our studies)

The healthcare sector is currently in the verge of a reform and thus, the medical game research provide an interesting area of research. The aim of this study is to explore the critical elements underpinning the emergence of the medical game ecosystem with three sub-objectives: (1) to seek who are the key actors involved in the medical game ecosystem and identify their needs, (2) to scrutinise what types of resources are required in medical game development and what types of relationships are ne [...]

Keywords : Medical games, Health games, Health technology, Service ecosystems approach

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Towards a Serious Game for Kurdish Language Learning (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract: Language learning is a set of techniques and methods used together to teach fundamentals of a language, including writing, reading, listening and comprehension. Usually begins by teaching letters. The purpose of this research was to initiate a scientific approach using serious games in order to discover a proper way to learn Kurdish language by writing approach. We studied related fields i.e. level of using technology with elementary school students, the method of teaching Kurdish [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Tutor intelligent, Kurdish language, Arami alphabets

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Pong et la mondialisation - L'histoire économique des consoles de 1976 à 1980 (Book reference)

This book focuses on a little known and hardly discussed period from the history of video games: the ends of the 70's, and more specifically the 1976-1980 years of the home consoles. The books explains how, after Ralph Baer's pioneer invention of the Magnavox Odyssey, and the success of Pong in arcades, home video games takes over TV sets around the world thanks to... General Instrument. Indeed, the introduction of a new integrated chip, copying Pong and sold for a few dollars only, allowed many [...]

Keywords : pong, globalization, economic history, home console, 70's, japan, france, usa

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Call for Papers: JCAL Special Issue on 'Learning Analytics in Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments and Courses' (Blog post)

 CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL) on Learning Analytics in Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments and CoursesThere has been much interest of late in ‘big data’ and the role it can play in decision making in diverse areas of business, science and entertainment. By employing a combination of modern artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics techniques, extremely large and complex data sets can be &lsquo [...]

Keywords : call for papers, journal

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Towards a collaborative tourist system using serious games (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract Nowadays, traveling is becoming increasingly easier. New and cheaper means of communication make tourism available for a larger number of people. Withal, smartphones are trending and they are replacing the common cellphone at a fast rate. It’s safe to assume that, in a near future, every single person will be able to afford a mobile device of this kind, including tourists. Many applications exist for mobile devices, specifically for smartphones, in order to help tourists in t [...]

Keywords : Serious Game, Tourism

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