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Towards Participative and Knowledge-Intensive Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
We propose the “Architecture for Representations, Games, Interactions, and Learning among Experts” (ARGILE) for participatory and knowledge -intensive serious games. Faced with the problem of training on professional practices in areas of advanced expertise, reference knowledge are neither stabilized nor unanimous, but rather dynamic and continuously evolving. Moreover, the practicioner does not make decisions based on pre-established recipes, but it is brought to trial and error, to [...]Keywords : Participation architecture, e-training, Serious games, Knowledge Engineering, Cooperation, Discussion forum
Fun house ludus loci and the American home as folly (Broacasting our studies)
ABSRACT While play marks both the cultural and pre-cultural spheres of human existence, the environmental design disciplines have almost exclusively compartmentalized the notions of play and fun into categories of leisure and children’s playgrounds. The rhetorics of environmental design, to date, have ignored, or at best marginalized, the possibility of play outside of recreational and commercial contexts. Still, we have abundant examples of playful architecture and fun places that st [...]Keywords : Design, Architecture, Fun architecture, Game
How to Analyse Therapeutic Games: The Player / Game / Therapy Model (Broacasting our studies)
In this paper, we present a new model to analyse therapeutic games. The goal of the model is to describe and analyse the relations between the three aspects of a therapeutic game: the player, the game, and the therapy. The model is intended to game designers. It is a tool to improve the communication between health experts and game designers, and to evaluate the game design coherency of therapeutic games. It also helps to analyse existing games to discover relevant features. The model is built w [...]Keywords : Video games, Evaluation, Analysis, Model, Game design, Serious games, Therapeutic
An introduction to Serious game - Definitions and concepts (Broacasting our studies)
This review article proposes a definition of the object “Serious Game” and an approach dedicated to classify its variousoccurrences. Summary of the review "Serious Games & Simulation for Risks Management" ISBN 978-2-9541430-0-2 (PDF): ALVAREZ, Julian ; DJAOUTI DamienAn introduction to Serious game - Definitions and concepts .................................................................... p 11SOLER, Luc ; MARESCAUX, JacquesVirtual Surgical [...]Keywords : Serious game, Definition, Classification, Taxonomy
Serious Game Design - Theoretical and technical study of the creation of games aimed to serve serious purposes (Broacasting our studies)
Nowadays, videogames are an important part of popular culture. Although videogames are most famous as leisure, the wave of " Serious Games " aims to use them for a wide range of serious purposes: teaching, communication, therapy, professional training, advertising, political propaganda… This thesis focuses on the design of such " Serious Games ". More specifically, we will try to identify means able to ease the creation of Serious Games. To achieve this goal, we will f [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Game Design, creation, game creation toolkits, modding, videogames, constructionnism , pedagogy
Hello. I'm a woman gamer. (Broacasting our studies)
This article studies the interface between, on the one hand, the identity of a student who is currently doing research on video games and, on the other hand, the identity of a woman gamer. This analysis will be carried out through a specific case: the elaboration of an experimental methodology to study issues of gender, of representation, and of roles within video games through a classification of female protagonists. This process needs to take into account both the demands of academic writing a [...]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
Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious game - 1st approach (Broacasting our studies)
Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious gameImpact of the Serious game: 1st approach. Organization of e UGSG contest This article aims at bringing the tangible proof of any impact causedby the Serious game object on their users. The followed idea is to organizean international contest to have on the one hand a corpus ofstudy and on the other a comparison between our approach of theSerious game object and those of the developpers. The tangible proofis well lis [...]Keywords : Serious games, Creation, Evaluation, Impact, Perception
Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious game - 2nd approach (Broacasting our studies)
Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious game 2nd approach. Realization and diffusion of 3 Serious games This article presents the 2nd approach. This one initially aims to identifya public to play Serious games matching our approach of the object.Then, if we count such a public, the idea is to study it by questioning iton its relation with the object. To lead this study, we work out 3 Seriousgames filling our needs and study their diffusions and catch in hand [...]Keywords : Serious games, Audience, Impact, Diffusion, Multiplayer