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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
Le Serious Game, levier du développement économique territorial ? (Broacasting our studies)
Is Serious Game a vector of endogenous and exogenous economic development of the territory? What is the level of development of this emerging market? Does it bring structuring growth for businesses, citizens and the region? To the extent that the conditions are met in a territory, can we consider implementing a clustering strategy in the serious gaming sector? How do its nationals fit into territorial issues? How can we mobilize this economic fabric but also assets in Research & Developme [...]Keywords : Serious game, Economy, Territory
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
Serious gaming: From learning experience towards User Experience (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:A number of existing innovation paradigms and design approaches such as Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003), User Experience (Hassenzahl & Tractinsky, 2006) and User Centred Design (Von Hippel, 2005), as well as User Centred Open Innovation Ecosystem (Pallot, 2009a), are promoting distributed collaboration among organisations and user communities. However, project stakeholders are mainly trained for improving their individual skills through learning experience (i.e. practical exercis [...]Keywords : Experiential Service Platform, Serious Game, Learning Experience, User Experience, Living Lab, User Co-Creation, Collaborative Distance
Hardware innovation (Student project)
A propostion of hardware innovation suited for videogames: a full body force feedback mixed with a smell generator. (gameplay concept)Keywords : free topic, hardware
Move (Student project)
A technical amelioration for gaming on mobile phone, which will allow them to detect their own spatial position, kinda like a Wiimote. This technical innovation will then be used to remix several casual games. (gameplay concept)Keywords : free topic, hardware
Wii sound (Student project)
A proposition of technical innovation aimed to strengthen immersion through the use of both 3D sound and Wii movement detection. (gameplay concept)Keywords : free topic, hardware
Communiquer par le jeu vidéo (Broacasting our studies)
That national education, the United Nations and Greenpeace, for example, use video games to convey a message and communicate, reveals that this form of digital leisure constitutes a credible alternative to traditional forms of communication. Furthermore, if the message includes an educational dimension, in the most global sense of the term, we believe that we are facing a new product in the world of multimedia. In this communication, we propose to take a critical lo [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Advertainment, Edugame, Education, Innovation, Marketing, Réception
On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise And Fall of Commodore (Book reference)
This book details the history of Commode, a company who built legendary computers such as the Commodore PET, theVIC-20, the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. Over more than 550 pages, this book presents the full history of the company, with incredible details and a lot of unique information obtained through interviews with former employees. The story begins in 1976 with Chuck Peddle, an engineer working for MOS Technology, who designed a microprocessor called 6502. It was the first one to be cheap eno [...]Keywords : commodore, commodore 64, amiga, jack tramiel, computer