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Healthcare Games and the Metaphoric Approach (Broacasting our studies)
Many serious games dedicated to the health sector have been identified. Within this wide range, theauthors have explored the Serious games offering an educational dimension and targeting either individualsor health-care professionals. Based on a corpus built around this orientation, the goal is todetermine whether or not it is possible to find a use, targeted or not, involving metaphorical contextsamong different titles. In the corpus studied, no metaphor is used for serious game targeting healt [...]Keywords : Serious game, Metaphor, Health, Health game
Introducing the European Serious Games Awards! (Blog post)
The European Serious Games Awards aim to celebrate the best videogames for learning created in Europe. We will rely on scientific evaluation of the submitted games in order to award prizes not only to the best Serious Games, but also to the best academic works in the field. The Awards Ceremony will take place during the VS-Games 2012 Conference in Genoa, Italy, on October 30th 2012. *Prizes* Each winner of one the 4 European Serious Games Awards will be rewarded by the following cash priz [...]Keywords : serious games, awards, europe
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
État de l'art du jeu vidéo : histoire et usages (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract : According to the french government, the video game industry has now reached a turnover of 3 billion euros (or 10% of the turnover of the french cultural industry), making it the second European country. This market could reach 3.8 billion by 2014, that is a 27% increase in 3 years. Video game was since always an entertaining technology, not requiring the player a significant interaction or intellectual investment result. Today, video games require more and more players to interac [...]Keywords : Video game, State of the art, History, Use, Innovation
The Gamification of Numeric Médiat The Development of Specialised Online Games for Libraries (Broacasting our studies)
The numerous changes occurring in the field of knowledge challenge information professionals to reflect on possible alternatives in order to preserve the traditional mission of libraries. At a time when the use of numeric media is increasing in libraries, one observes an increase of the ludic possibilities available on the Web. Designated by the term gamification, this tendency is part of a larger trend that sees libraries as an intellectual playground where alternative learning is highlighted. [...]Keywords : Gamification, Libraries, Games, Serious games, Media games, Online games
International Scientific Symposium « Evaluate and Measure the Impact of Serious Games » (Blog post)
On May 23rd in Valenciennes, we are organizing a scientific symposium called“Evaluate and Measure the Impact of Serious Games” during the international “evirtuoses” event. This meeting aims at asking questions on approaches,paradigms, experience feedbacks enabling the projection of theoreticalframeworks, methodologies leading to evaluate or measure the impact of SeriousGames, but also to report on collected and analyzed results. Serious Gamesgenerate indeed a [...]Keywords : Impact, Evaluation, Measure, Serious Game, Organized system, Ecosystem, Effectiveness
Jacked: The unauthorized behind-the-scenes story of Grand Theft Auto (Book reference)
This book details the captivating story of the scandalous game series "Grand Theft Auto". Over 300 pages, the author tells us about the most epic moments of this saga: humble beginnings as a small arcade game made in Scotland by DMA Design; hiring Max Clifford to use media scandal as a marketing campaign; the hijacking of the series leadership by the Houser brothers and their studio Rockstar during the creation of GTA III; the first legal actions against the game series and the ri [...]Keywords : grand theft auto, history, dma design, rockstar, jack thompson, sam houser, david jones, esrb
The History of Mario - published by Pix N'Love editions (Blog post)
On the french version of this blog , I posted an in-depth critic of a (french-written) book about the history of Mario. Far from being a simple "illustrated books for fans" filled with nostalgia, l'Histoire de Mario by William Audureau and published by Pix N'Love is one on the most interesting books about the genesis of Mario. It's not an history book, it's an analytical book that tries to answer one simple question : "Why Mario?". After all, when Nintendo picked a masc [...]Keywords : mario, history, nintendo, analysis
The Serious Game: What Educational Benefits? (Broacasting our studies)
AbstractThis work lies in the educational opportunities of a learning tool: the serious game. The serious game was investigated using an American example: Virtual University.We first highlight the main features of this media, namely that it can be used as: a teaching tool, a means of entertainment, and as a technology of information and communication. It aims for multiple learning objectives, it finds application in many areas and it targets all age groups. Then, we show that learning through th [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Constructivist psychocognitive theories, Intrinsic motivation, Socio-cognitive conflicts, Situated learning