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Digital Humanities: Current Perspective, Practices, and Research (Broacasting our studies)
The field of Digital Humanities is becoming more exciting as the number of low-cost or free mobile and desktop applications flood the market allowing users to accomplish tasks that only a few years ago were either not possible or required complicated coding or high-end ... References (1): Djaouti, D., Alvarez, J., Jessel, J.-P., & Rampnoux, O. (2011). Origins of serious games. In M. Ma, A. Oikonomou & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Serious games and edutainment applications [...]Keywords : Serious game, Retro Serious game
Facial expression recognition teaching to preschoolers with autism: a natural user interface approach (Broacasting our studies)
The recognition of facial expressions is important for the perception of emotions. Understanding emotions is essential in human communication and social interaction. Children with autism have been reported to exhibit deficits in the recognition of affective expressions. Their difficulties in understanding and expressing emotions lead to inappropriate behavior derived from their inability to interact adequately with other people. Those deficits seem to be rather permanent in individuals with auti [...]Serious games for disseminating the knowledge of ancient manuscripts: a case study (Broacasting our studies)
In this paper we present a Digital Serious Game set in a medieval alchemical laboratory, aimed at disseminating the ancient knowledge of medicine distillation contained in the famous Adam Lonicer's Kreuterbuch (1569) treatise. The application is based on interactive Virtual Environments and available on multiple visualization technologies, ranging from simple touch-based tablet up to immersive environments such as CAVEs or Oculus Rift. The game comes as the latest development level o [...]Keywords : Libraries Archives, Virtual Environment, Immersion, Interaction, Learning, Digital Serious Games
Aesthetic experience and the interface in digital games The production of an edutainment game - Moon (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract In this research, we present one of the principal aspects of games. The interfaces or better knew by the acronym HUD’s (Heads-Up Display). We are going to show the succinct evolution in the history of games suffered by them as well as the advance in their production in order to amplify or affect positive the immersion in digital games. We emphasize forms and ways of developing what we consider an intelligent interface (Boschetti, 2001), in order to help the INDIE developers w [...]Keywords : Interface, Aesthetic experience, Edutainment game
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
Gamifying an Oil-Gas-Water Separation Process in a Process Control System to Improve Operators' Motivation, Skills, and Process Understanding (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract Serious games and its related fields have lately received a lot of interest due to their potential for training and education. Serious games can be defined as (digital) games that are used for reasons other than entertainment. Gamification can be related to serious games and can be defined as the process of game-thinking and game mechanics to engage users and solve problems. The initiator of this project was ABB. ABB delivers a process control system used to control the processes o [...]Keywords : Gamification, Serious games, Process control system, Oil and gas separation, Simulator
Apprendere la lingua giapponese con i videogiochi. Una ricerca sul campo (Broacasting our studies)
Introduzione Condurre una ricerca sull’apprendimento attraverso le nuove tecnologie è abbastanza rischioso dal momento che l’evoluzione in questo campo è così rapida che nel giro di pochi anni il nostro studio potrebbe risultare obsoleto. Molti trentenni cresciuti in Italia ricorderanno quando a scuola le insegnanti facevano registrare conversazioni o letture di dialoghi con il vecchio mangianastri per poi dare la possibilità agli studenti di riascolt [...]Book chapter: Origins of Serious Games (Blog post)
We wrote an article about the historical origins of "Serious Games", which get published by Springer in the book "Serious Games and Edutainment Applications" a few months ago. We first review the historical definitions of the "Serious Games" oxymoron. We then explore the history of videogames in search of the first "Serious Games", that actually appeared before the first entertainment videogames... This book gathers several scientific articles ded [...]Keywords : serious games, history
A serious game for speech disorder children therapy (Broacasting our studies)
Today meaning of games is much more serious than just considering them as an entertainment and free-time activity. Games have begun to be used in many different areas such as education, healthcare, military, corporate management and public policy for different purposes. Several benefits of serious games have been reported in the literature. Studies also show that with a combination of entertainment and education (edutainment) several benefits could be achieved in the rehabilitation process of th [...]Keywords : Serious game, Health, Health game
Origins of Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
This chapters tackles the historical origins of Serious Games: "The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the historical origins of Serious Games to try to understand where the current wave of "Serious Games" comes from. We first review the origins of the "Serious Games" oxymoron. We will then analyse digital games designed for serious purposes before the 2000's. Such games can be traced back to the beginning of the history of video games. We will use all these elem [...]Keywords : serious games, history