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SERIOUS GAMES ANALYTICS: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract“Serious Games” is a unique industry that is concerned with the training/learning performance assessment of its clients. It is one of three digital technology industries (along with digital games, and online learning) that are rapidly advancing into the arena of analytics. The analytics from these industries all came from the tracing of user-generated data as they interacted with the systems, but differed from one another in the primary purposes for such analytics. For exampl [...]Keywords : Serious games analytics, Game analytics, Learning analytics, Definition, Theoretical foundation, Human performance assessment
Examining Through Visualization What Tools Learners Access as They Play a Serious Game for Middle School Science (Broacasting our studies)
This study intends to use data visualization to examine learners’ behaviors in a 3D immersive serious game for middle school science to understand how the players interact with various features to solve the central problem. The analysis combined game log data with measures of in-game performance and learners’ goal orientations. The fi ndings indicated students in the high performance and masteryoriented groups tended to use the tools more appropriately relative to the stage they were [...]Keywords : Serious games, Problem-based learning, Middle school science, Learner behaviors, Goal orientation
Gamification in Factory Management Education - A Case Study with Lego Mindstorms (Broacasting our studies)
Research oriented teaching in universities provides opportunities to support the student's desire to explore. A student's learning success can benefit from gamified project work, especially when students face self-guided learning processes in demanding educational activities. Gamification is defined as the use of game elements in a non-game context. Games offer the chance to improve the motivation of students, support group work, train communication skills and introduce the capacity for experime [...]Designing games for learning: An investigation of instructional designers, game designers, and teachers design decisions and epistemological beliefs (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT Fields within education and training have been exploring the use of educational computer-based games, often referred to as serious games (SG), in multiple disciplines of academic research including the affective, cognitive, and psychomotor domains. Traditionally, game designers tend to represent a different viewpoint about learning than instructional designers, or even teachers. More so, one of the fundamental roles designers play in making decisions is based on multiple factors, w [...]Keywords : Serious games, Instructional levels, Epistemology
How Much Life do I Lose from the Plague? Educational Board Games as Teaching Tools in Archaeology and Ancient History Courses (Broacasting our studies)
This article describes the development, implementation, assessment, debriefing and outcomes, and potential uses of a university student-driven educational gaming project, as a major assessment item in an archaeology course entitled ‘Ancient Medicine’. Discussion of these various aspects of the project is explored in the context of educational gaming theory and practice. We demonstrate that educational board games not only represent an effective method for students to retain and conve [...]Keywords : Ancient history, Archaeology, Course design, Educational board games, Pedagogy
Level Up A Media-Archaeological Study on the Rhetoric of Progress about Serious Health Games (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT Examining the progressive and optimistic rhetoric about serious games in healthcare as a starting point, this thesis analyses the rhetoric of progress in medical media instruments and applications as recurring discursive building blocks in media history. It argues that the narrative of serious games history - a rhetoric that operates from within fixed values and beliefs about technological innovation - is part of a longstanding tradition in medical media history that shares particu [...]Keywords : Serious games, Healthcare, Rhetoric of progress, Media archaeology, Material discourse analysis, x-ray, Microscope
Mensch-Maschine-Zusammenarbeit innerhalb von Leitstand-Teams im Luftverkehrsmanagement (Broacasting our studies)
Zusammenfassung Aufgrund der zunehmenden Technologisierung ist die Entwicklung von Assistenzsystemen unentbehrlich, da Operateure bei der Durchführung komplexer Prozesse unterstützt werden müssen. Künftig werden soziotechnische Systeme entstehen, im Rahmen derer Menschen und technische Systeme kooperativ interagieren. Diese Entwicklung der steigenden Automatisierung und der Tendenz zu kooperativen soziotechnischen Systemen ist auch im Luftverkehrsmanagement zu erwarten. Aller [...]WristDroid - A serious game to support and motivate patients throughout their wrist rehabilitation (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:Wrist injuries are a common and frequent health issue requiring rehabilitation. Occupational and physical therapists create individual exercises for their patients, which include both ambulatory/stationary and home exercises. Practice and literature show, however, that autonomously performed exercises are likely not carried out accurately and may endanger progress of rehabilitation. We propose the design of WristDroid - an Android-based serious game to leverage execution of home exercis [...]Keywords : serious games, injuries, medical computing, patient rehabilitation, patient treatment
The evolution of advergames development: A study in the Netherlands (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:Despite our exposure to advergames, and studies about their effects, we know very little about the other side of the coin, i.e., advergames developers. In this paper, we report on a study of advergames development companies in the Netherlands. After deriving statements concerning the advergames market through three interviews, we cross-validate these statements with eight companies. Several statements are statistically significant, including the following: advergames are increasingly be [...]Keywords : Customer loyalty, Netherlands, Advergames development companies, Technological platforms, Social media components, Advertising companies
The Choice of Serious Games and Gamification (Broacasting our studies)
When analyzing past and existing trends, gamification has unarguably invaded the mainstream media in a more pervasive way than serious games. In the literature, there has been a wide range of meanings for gamification, some detractors abhorring the term to others stating it encompasses everything to do with games and entertainment. This inconsistent nomenclature and undefined scope has led to the erroneous belief that gamification and serious games are synonymous. The aim of this paper is to pre [...]Keywords : Serious game, Gamification