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Designing and Evaluating Emotional Student Models for Game-Based Learning (Broacasting our studies)
AbstractResearch in game-based learning environments aims to recognise and show emotion. This chapter describes the main approaches and challenges involved in achieving these goals. In addition, we propose an emotional student model that can reason about students’ emotions using observable behaviour and responses to questions. Our model uses Control-Value Theory (Pekrun et al., The control value theory of achievement emotions. An integrative approach to emotions in education. In: Schutz, P [...]Keywords : Computer Science, Computers and Education
Les 1001 jeux vidéos auxquels il faut avoir joué dans sa vie (Book reference)
This book presents a personal selection by the author of 1001 noteworthy videogames, coming from every period of the videogames history. Each games is introduced by a small text alongside one or several screenshots.This book is a french translation of an English-written book first published in 2010 and titled "1001 video games you must play before you die." This original English version was updated and republished in 2013 under the same title.Keywords : encyclopedia, history
DownLoad : L'ouvrage des jeux dématérialisés (Book reference)
DownLoad is a magazine dedicated to videogames available solely through online distribution channels, with a clear focus towards indie games. About ten titles are detailed in each issue, with an in-depth interview of the game creators, who provide us with many unique and interesting details about how they made their game. This magazine, which looks more like a book (thick paper, content not directly related to current news but focused on in-depth interviews...), has unfortunately stopped after t [...]Keywords : indie games, dematerialized
Do students trained using serious games become better sales representatives? an experiment to study the performance of academic serious games (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract This paper analyzes the potential of serious games for professional and pedagogical purposes and learning. To do this, the authors have questioned the efficiency of these games. They present an experiment conducted with 66 students trained in sales that compares a group of players with a group of non-players. The game’s impact on skills was studied from two angles: first from a theoretical point of view (based on the marks obtained in tests), and second from a practical point [...]Keywords : Serious Games, ICT efficiency, Experiment
Outils et techniques pour le Serious Game : moteurs propriétaires et usines à jeuxOutils et techniqu (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : serious games, master class, game design, tools
La Bible Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom (Book reference)
This bible is dedicated to the Nintendo NES home console (also known as Famicom). The first part of the book tells you the history of this console through a quite detailed chapter featuring a lot of pictures. The second and main part of the book is dedicated to a list of every game ever released for this console, featuring all games using cartridge or disk (Famicom Disk System) formats. Each one of the 1900 games is presented through a couple of screenshots alongside with a small text [...]Keywords : history, nintendo, nes, famicom, nintendo entertainment system, bible
A serious game based method for business process management (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:Nowadays, organizations have to be flexible enough to allow adjustments to new circumstances and to be able to align their processes in a short time according to the users requirements, respecting environmental constraints and technological evolution. The challenges are then to improve process efficiency and quality, to introduce a continuous process evolution and to improve the stakeholder's satisfaction. This article proposes a Serious Game-based Method for Business Process Management [...]Keywords : Serious game, Business Process, Modeling, Management, Participative process, Process improvement, BPM
Philosophie des jeux vidéo (Book reference)
An excellent book featuring a deep analysis of the experiences offered to players by videogames. Being at the same time a gamer and a scholar, the author provides us with his very thoughtful and stimulating ideas on this topic. The first three chapters are tackling the issue of defining games, video games, and the relation between games and movies / storytelling. As they are full of concepts and references, these chapters are a bit harder to read than the others. The three following chapters are [...]Keywords : history, philosophy, sociology, experience, critical, gamification