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Classifying Serious Games: The G/P/S Model (Broacasting our studies)

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce an overall classification system for Serious Games. ?The intention of this classification is to guide people through the vast field of Serious Games by providing them with a general overview. For example, it may appeal to teachers who wish to find games with strong educational potential though they may be outside the “edugames” field. This chapter will start by discussing the definition of Serious Games, and define them as having a combinat [...]

Keywords : serious games, definition, classification

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Les jeux vidéos comme objet de recherche (Book reference)

This scientific book gathers contributions from 12 researchers, coming from different fields, who are studying different sides of videogames: identification of the Game Designer knowledge, using videogames in schools, space in videogames, how to dissect a videogame to analyze it, analysis of MMORPG as social spaces...N.B.: The members of Ludoscience wrote a chapter of this book, about "Serious Games".

Keywords : scientific research, education, sociology, computer science, geography

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Games And Learning Alliance (GALA) (Our projects)

The Games And Learning Alliance (GALA) is an European Network of Excellence gathering researchers and industrials from all over Europe involved in the field of Serious Games. GALA aims to shape the scientific community and build a European Virtual Research Centre aimed at gathering, integrating, harmonizing and coordinating research on Serious Games and disseminating knowledge, best practices and tools as a reference point at an international level. The other key focuses of the project are: the [...]

Keywords : serious game, europa, research network

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Application of Serious Games in Industrial Contexts (Broacasting our studies)

This chapter describes application areas for serious games in the context of such CNOs. A classification scheme for serious games has been developed based on two different approaches: one based on a process framework, the other one based on a game genome approach. Both are applied on a number of known serious games with the objective to identify uncovered areas and gaps. These gaps represent new opportunities for the application of serious games which has not yet been realized. References ( [...]

Keywords : Serious Game, Classification, Game genome approach, Virtual Organisation life cycle, Education, Industry

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The educational contribution of serious games (Broacasting our studies)

From the education 2010 show, the students of LDVTV proposed us a special show on the "serious games", broadcast live on Curiosphere.tv. In the present from this broadcast, Julien Llanas, Chargé de mission in the Academy of Créteil, and Julian Alvarez, researcher and designer of serious games in Ludoscience, specify the specificity of the educational contribution of serious games.   Acces to the vidéo

Keywords : Serious game, Education, Pedagogy

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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

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EDoS: An authoring environment for serious games design based on three models (Broacasting our studies)

Serious games (SGs), the confluence of e-learning and videogames, have been developing very fast these past years. Indeed, SGs combine aspects of tutoring, teaching, training, communication and information, with entertainment elements derived from videogames, in order to capture people's attention for purposes that go beyond pure entertainment. However, the creation of a SG for educational purposes and professional training is a very time-consuming and expensive process. The challenge is to comb [...]

Keywords : Serious games, Scenario design, Authoring environment, e-learning, Pedagogical objective

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Introduction au Serious game (Book reference)

This book explores the "Serious Games" universe. It starts with a definition of Serious Games, in order to identify their differences from entertainment videogames. It will then present out with a lot of current examples of Serious Games from various domains: education, healthcare, communication, defense, politics, etc. The third part will explain you the history of Serious Games, while the fourth and final part gathers many interviews with people from the Serious Games field: designer [...]

Keywords : serious game, definition, history, interviews, examples

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Eco Reporter à Andromède (Broacasting our studies)

An article about our serious game "Eco-Reporter"

Keywords : serious game, ecology, education

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