LudoScience

How to reinvent health prevention through play? (Broacasting our studies)

Interview with Julian Alvarez, PhD in Information and Communication Sciences, specializing in Ludopedagogy, Serious Game & Gamification at Immersive Factory and the University of Lille. Communities and companies committed to the PNNS charter, and more broadly, structures that work in the field of prevention in health nutrition, implement health education actions with different audiences. By definition, a serious game is a mix between serious content and a fun scenario. It can be a learn [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Health, Health game, Gamification, Nutrition

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Misconception 4: Video games have no place in the classroom with Julian Alvarez (Broacasting our studies)

Podcast: "Are you thinking of using video games in your university teaching? You may not realize that video games can be a useful learning tool. In this fourth episode, we welcome Julian Alvarez, a teacher-researcher in Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Lille, who answers the common misconception that “video games have no place in the classroom”. A pioneer in research into the link between games and learning, he shares with us examples of how video game [...]

Keywords : Ludopedagogy, Edutainment, Serious game, Education, Ethics

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Ludopedagogy: what if we used games to develop soft skills? Interview with Julian Alvarez (Broacasting our studies)

Edutainment, or the art of integrating game mechanisms into learning, is proving an increasingly popular approach within companies. Motivating learners, engaging them and even improving memorization - the benefits of games are well established. However, behind its many advantages also lie challenges and ethical issues. Julian Alvarez, PhD in information and communication sciences - specializing in edutainment, serious games and gamification - addresses these issues in his latest book, “Ser [...]

Keywords : Softskills, Serious games, Ludopedagogy, Edutainment

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Evaluate a ludopedagogical session (Broacasting our studies)

Julian Alvarez, PhD in information and communication sciences and associate professor at Lille, took a look at the pedagogical approach to digital serious games and their evaluation in the healthcare sector.Using a digital serious game as a starting point, he reviewed the notions of context, objectives, interest and evaluation.He went on to present “serious play design”, with its notions of means, ends and motivational levers.   

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Game & Serious (or rather Serious Game) - Interview with Julian Alvarez (Broacasting our studies)

When we think of play, we first think of a childish activity whose sole purpose is to entertain. But the proof is in the pudding: adults play! Whether it's trading cards or video games, gaming isn't just for kids! In fact, it's even become serious.   In this episode, Julian Alvarez, a doctor in information and communication sciences specializing in Serious Games and Gamification dedicated to education, health and communication, explains what a Serious Game is, and the educational issue [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Game, Play, Toy, Children, Video game, Board games

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Serious Games ?A Ludic Constraint?? Ludopedagogy in debate (Broacasting our studies)

What is the aim of using games at work? How far can we go with this approach? Does it work? What are the ethical issues involved in using games in the workplace? In this seminar, we'll be tackling these questions with Julian Alvarez, a teacher-researcher in Information and Communication Sciences specializing in edutainment. Link to video

Keywords : Ethics, Security, HSE, Serious game

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Player Personality Profile Grid (PPP Grid) (Broacasting our studies)

The purpose of this article is to propose a model to help trainers assess the player profiles they are likely to encounter among their learners. The goal is to maximize the chances of making an edutainment session as effective as possible. This approach resulted in a first iteration of a model. This model was built and derived based on statistical analysis of 1,126 individuals who completed a questionnaire about their communication personality, age, gamer profile, and weekly play time. Using thi [...]

Keywords : Profiles, Players, Personnality, Learners, DiSC Model, Bartle's Typology

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Can video games escape the gender question? (Broacasting our studies)

Between 2021 and 2022, INSPE Lille and Julian Alvarez have designed and produced a traveling exhibition entitled “Does the video game escape the question of gender?”. With a view to media education, the exhibition invites visitors to question the representations and imaginaries conveyed by video games in relation to questions of gender, identity and sexual orientation.In concrete terms, the exhibition is made up of 15 posters, based on the principle of Figure 1: a central question, i [...]

Keywords : Video game, Gender, Gender stereotype, Sexism

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Representation of female gamers in the French-language video-game press between 1980 and 2019 (Broacasting our studies)

The aim of this paper is to present a lexicometric study identifying, between 1980 and 2019, the number of occurrences of the following 4 keywords: “joueuse”, “joueuses”, “joueur” and “joueurs” that can be identified in the French-language videogame press. In concrete terms, the corpus explored represents a set of 1,075 documents, the main titles of which are shown in Table 1. Statistical processing was carried out to check the validity of the data [...]

Keywords : Female player, Male player, Female gamer, Male player, Gender stereotype, Video games press, Representation, Video game

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