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New lessons materials (Blog post)
While this will be of little use if you can't read french, I just uploaded 5 new lessons materials on the website: An overall presentation of the history of videogames (from 1952 to 2013).A presentation of the various jobs related to videogames (from AAA game designers to indies or journalist).An updated version of our presentation of the Game Design theories.An updated version of our presentation about the structure of games (i.e. what is gameplay?).An introduction to Serious Games, to [...]Keywords : lessons materials
Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds: Commercial Video Games As Educational Tools (Book reference)
This book highlights the potential of video games for education purposes. Over 250 pages, 10 chapters are dealing with a different topic each. For example, one chapter relies on the Final Fantasy series to demonstrate the artistic potential of video games, while another chapter presents a classroom experiment conducted over the Harry Potter games and movies to make the students work on storytelling. While the book subject is very interesting, the quality of its chapters varies heavily. The best [...]Keywords : education, video game, classroom, theoretical
Quand l'université française s'intéresse au jeu sérieux (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : serious games, university
Introduction aux "Serious Games" (Lesson)
A presentation about "Serious Games", i.e. games designed for purposes going beyond entertainment. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)Keywords : serious games, introduction, discovery, examples, history
A gesture-controlled Serious Game for teaching preschoolers with autism facial emotion recognition (Broacasting our studies)
The recognition of facial expressions is important for the perception of emotions. Understanding emotions is essential in human communication and social interaction. Children with autism have been reported to exhibit deficits in the recognition of affective expressions. Their difficulties in understanding and expressing emotions leads to inappropriate behavior derived from their inability to interact adequately with other people. Those deficits seem to be rather permanent in individuals with aut [...]Keywords : Autism, Facial emotion recognition, Gestures, Kinect, NUI
Jogo sério para aprendizagem da instabilidade de vertentes (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract Serious games have been receiving a lot of interest in the recent years and have been increasingly used for educational, military and business purposes. One of the positive sides of serious games is the fact of being tools that allow the creation of an environment where players are immersed in a playful activity, and are much more receptive to knowledge acquisition. Through serious games players are more likely to retain information for a longer period of time. The terrain instabil [...]SeGaMed 2013 : Sept 12-14 Nice, FR - Call for papers (Blog post)
SeGaMed 2013: Sept 12-14 Nice, FRCall for proposals A renewal 2013 edition ... After the success of the 2012 conference, the School of Medicine of Nice is hosting the second international SeGaMed conference dedicated to the applying of serious games for medicine and healthcare.This year, two major innovations: the embedding of SeGaMed as a conference of the first "Journées de l'Enseignement Universitaire par le Numérique en Santé" (the 'JEUNS) and the o [...]Keywords : Serious game, Health, Health game
Sortie d'une nouvelle édition d'un ouvrage sur les "Serious Games" (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : serious game, book
Expanding the magic circle in pervasive casual play (Broacasting our studies)
In this document we present proposals for merging the fictional game world with the real world taking into account the profile of casual players. To merge games with reality we resorted to the creation of games that explore diverse real world elements. We focused on sound, video, physiological data, accelerometer data, weather and location. We made the choice for these real world elements because data, about those elements, can be acquired making use of functionality already available, or forese [...]Keywords : Casual games, Pervasive games, Sound, Video, Physiological data, Electrodermal activity, Accelerometer, Weather