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Creative Evolution of Digital Leisure Culture, Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
At the dawn of a new digital era, people`s way of spending their leisure time and leisure activity preferences changed. Accordingly, Leisure culture is in the midst of change, such as watching movie and performance, enjoy golf etc. Due to its nature as an interactive medium, the digital game offers uniquely different approaches to the leisure activity. Leisure as state of mind is much more subjective in that it considers the individual`s perception of an activity. In that regard, we used the dig [...]Keywords : Serious game, Digital game
Les métiers des jeux vidéo et de l'animation (Book reference)
This book is a guide presenting the professional side of the videogames universe in a simple but complete way. It's divided in 4 parts. The first one presents the "day-to-day reality", by answering questions like "how do we create videogames?", "do we spent the day playing games?" or "can we became rich?", etc. The second part dissects the different jobs related to videogames, and explains their role and the kind of skills they require: game designer, scen [...]Keywords : jobs, training courses, video games, industry, company, guide, student
Create Newsgames to develop the critical thinking of engineering students? (Broacasting our studies)
Since 2005, we have been providing courses on video game design to students from several university courses and training centers (INSA and several departments of the University of Toulouse, France). The educational objective is to get learners to design and carry out small video game projects with a message. The themes are oriented for example on awareness of food hygiene, or the discovery of industrial or engineering professions. From 2010, we are focusing on the creation of Newsgames with engi [...]Keywords : newsgames, critical thinking, project-based learning, Serious game
A multi-agent system for learner assessment in serious games: Application to learning processes in crisis management (Broacasting our studies)
Serious Games (SG) are more and more used for training in various domains, especially in crisis management domain. In order to improve training results, learner assessment can provide insights on what went right or wrong during a training session. Learner assessment requires monitoring (data acquisition in a virtual environment) and supporting learners' feedback (on learners' decisions and actions), which Intelligent Tutoring Systems address as a main issue, as a mean to individualise learning. [...]Keywords : Crisis management, Learner assessment, Multi-agent system, Serious Game
CALL FOR PAPERS - e-virtuoses 2013 (Blog post)
================================================================================= International Scientific Symposium "Games for all purposes? Appropriation, Repurposing and Rejection" ================================================================================= On 4 and 5 June 2013 in Valenciennes, during the "e-virtuoses" scientific convention, dedicated to the use of games and play (digital or not) for utilitarian purposes, we will host a scientific [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Serious Gaming, Gamification, Serious Play, Evaluation, Uses, Organisation, Transformation
Characterization and Evaluation of Serious Games: A Perspective of Their Use in Higher Education (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:Serious games are video games or computer games designed for training or educational purposes. Thanks to the interesting and useful opportunities that they provide such as interactivity, immersion, simulation they become well accepted and well spread among professional and academic fields. However, the selection of the most suitable serious games to a specific educational goal seems to be not well studied in the literature. This paper tries to meet this research gap by developing a new [...]Keywords : Games, Training, Business, Biological system modeling, Educational institutions, Entertainment industry
The adoption of gamification in e-banking (Broacasting our studies)
The development of multiple web applications with features of video games gave way to a new trend called Gamification. However, there isn't a clear explanation that allows the connection of the elements of the game applications with non-game features, mainly in traditional highly regulated financial sector. The aim of this study is to investigate the acceptance of a business application Gamified in e-banking. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the results from an online survey of 18 [...]Keywords : Gamification, Game
Serious Games for Health ? ernstzunehmende didaktische Konzepte in der medizinischen Ausbildung? (Broacasting our studies)
There is not a lot of data available yet in which way Serious Games are integrated in medical education. A lot of different opinions and concepts are discussed concerning in which way Serious Games can be effectively integrated in the medical curriculum. In this article we developed criteria for the implementation of Serious Games for Health in the medical education. 29 Serious Games for Health were tested to their applicability for undergraduate medical education. Six games seem to be suitable [...]Keywords : Medical games, Medical education, Health game, Health
Serious Games for Reflective Learning? experiences from the MIRROR project (Broacasting our studies)
This chapter describes some of the work carried out in the MIRROR project, which focuses on reflective learning where adults' motivation to learn and reflect through games is being researched. It briefly introduces the project and the theoretical framework, and then describes the serious game that was created for research in detail. The last part of this chapter focuses on users' evaluations and describes some lessons learned about the importance of guidance and of a de-briefing session, thus hi [...]Keywords : Serious game, Learning
Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Serious Game for Crisis Management: A Multi-agents Integration Architecture (Broacasting our studies)
Crisis management, serious games (SG) are more and more used for training. SG permit to reduce the cost of a such training and saving time, and in general provide a fun way to learn. In this paper we propose to bring together SG and Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) in the context of the SIMFOR project, a SG for training in crisis management. We discuss the problems and needs of serious games and an overview of existing works. To enhance the learning aspect in SG, we propose the integration of [...]Keywords : Collaborative agent-based architecture, Intelligent tutoring systems, Serious Game, Crisis management training, Multiagent integration architecture, Training cost reduction, Time savings, SIMFOR project