RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of the article is to present the phenomenon of gamification and to analyse the benefits connected with the introduction of the education methods and tools based on gamification systems. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The article provides examples of universities in which gamification courses (based on gamification systems) were introduced as part of their teaching programmes. Next, it identifies and analyses benefits resulting from the implementation of this i
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Keywords : Education, Game, Gamification, Initiative
The turn of the 20th and 21st centuries was a time of significant social and economical transformations. The progressive technologizing of our lives and the development of the information society impacted on the intensive cultural transformations. In the face of this new economic reality and the free‑market intense competition on the field of cultural offers, many institutions had to comprehensively reorganize their activities to meet the needs and expect
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Keywords : Culture, Technology, Media, Museum
Abstract:The video-games market has become an established and ever-growing global industry. The health of the video and computer games industry, together with the variety of genres and technologies available, mean that videogame concepts and programmes are being applied in numerous different disciplines. One of these is the field known as serious games. The main goal of this article is to collect all the relevant articles published during the last decade and create a trend analysis about the use
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Keywords : Games, Artificial intelligence, Decision making, Market research, Algorithm design and analysis, Decision trees, Industries
===================Résumé de l'intervention =================== Présentation du modèle CEPAJe devant un public entreprises, consultants et chercheurs. Le modèle CEPAJe vise à évaluer une activité prenant le jeu comme médiation pour former, communiquer ou collecter des données.L'échange avec le public avait pour but d'éprouver le modèle et de recueillir des suggestions d'améliorations. 
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Keywords : Serious game, Evaluation, Model, Activity
Abstract Serious games and gamification are emerging in many areas of society. In addition to an effective way of entertainment, games can be adopted as a persuading tool to guide person to achieve specific goal, citing their ultimate attraction. In this paper, we are interested in the mechanism and application of gamification in the field of academic education. Games feature a potential to promote students to learn in a spontaneous and effective manner, since the challenge and fun in games
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Keywords : Academic education, Gamification, Digital circuit course, Serious games
Abstract This paper describes: a scenario, agent specification, mapping of knowledge domain, an implementation of Bloom's taxonomy-based serious game (BoTySeGa), and players' response against the game. The development of BoTySeGa is pursued to the availability of an alternative assessment tool for learning in elementary school. It considers aspects: game knowledge, subject matter of parallelogram for 5th grade elementary school learners, and cognitive domain of Bloom's taxonomy. BoTySeGa's
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Keywords : Bloom's Taxonomy, Serious Game, Learning Assessment
Abstract This article summarizes past definitions of entertainment, serious games and virtual heritage in order to discuss whether virtual heritage has particular problems not directly addressed by conventional serious games. For virtual heritage, typical game-style entertainment poses particular ethical problems, especially around the simulation of historic violence and the possible trivialization of culturally sensitive and significant material. While virtual heritage can be considered to
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Keywords : Entertainment, Virtual heritage, Authenticity, Violence, Interaction design
This paper falls within the scope of a global approach that ultimately aims to assess what types of support and in what proportions a trainer may have recourse to when they make use of play as a medium. To do this, it seems appropriate in our view to begin by establishing a first model to assess the initial teaching or training situation using play as a medium. To set up such a model, we choose to enrich an existing grid that was developed in 2006 by Sara de Freitas and Marti
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Keywords : serious game, history, analysis
Keywords : Serious game, Health, Health game, Typology