LudoScience
Français
EnglishSearch213 results
Playing for impact : the design of civic games for community engagement and social action / Designing large-scale games for community engagement (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:In light of calls that civic participation is declining, efforts are underway to replace outdated, unproductive forms of citizenship. With the majority of Americans now connected to the Internet, community leaders see the digital realm as the new frontier for promoting engagement. Increasingly, digital games are being designed for the express purpose of promoting community engagement and social action. My thesis examines this emerging practice of civic game design. Within this thesis, I [...]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
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
An Environment to Support Collaborative Learning by Modding (Broacasting our studies)
In this paper, we propose an environment to support collaborative modding, as a new way to learn a subject. Modding can be defined as the activity to modify an existing game with dedicated tools. In a constructivist approach, we base our work on the assumption that modding a learning game can help learners to acquire the concepts of the subject concerned. We also think that modding in collaborative settings can help learners both to learn the subject and to learn to collaborate. We first propose [...]Keywords : Modding game, Development kits, Learning game 2.0, Collaborative 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
Jogos sérios competitivo-colaborativos: um mapeamento sistemático da literatura (Broacasting our studies)
Many studies support serious games as a tool for motivating and learning improvement. Some work have already evaluated the influence of competition and collaboration aspects on learning using such games but little research has been published regarding the usage of both aspects at the same time. A systematic literature mapping has been done, searching for serious games that have embodied both collaboration and competition in its gameplay. From 742 papers analyzed, 17 of them were selected. The ma [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Learning, Evaluation, Studies
La Révolution PlayStation - Les hommes de l'ombre (Book reference)
This book unveils the story of a very important home console: the Sony PlayStation. Thanks to the interviews of more than twenty people who worked on this project, the author, also a member of the team, invites us to a journey behind the scenes of the creation process of this console. By mixing these various interviews, each chapter of the book details the different stages of the PlayStation project: an awkward beginning when Sony partnered with Nintendo to create a CD-Rom drive for the Super NE [...]Keywords : playstation, revolution, sony, men in the shadows, industry, home console
La Révolution PlayStation - Ken Kutaragi (Book reference)
This book unveils the story of a very important home console: the Sony PlayStation. It focuses on Ken Kutaragi, the key person in this project, who is today acknowledged as the "father of the Playstation." The author tells us how this visionary engineer lead Sony to tackle the home video game console market, in spite of the vigorous opposition shown by many other people in the company. Each chapter of the book details the different stages of the PlayStation project: the initial inspi [...]Keywords : playstation, revolution, sony, ken kutaragi, industry, home console
Japanmanship - The ultimate guide book to working in video game development in Japan (Book reference)
This one-of-a-kind book is guide for any foreigner who wants to work in the Japanese video game industry. James Kay, the British-born author of the book, has personally made this move: he worked for different Japanese video games studios during 10 years, and then founded his own studio there. Over 300 pages, he tackles all the questions one could ask: Why go to Japan to create video games? How to get hired in a Japanese studio? How to find a place to live? And how is the day-to-day life in a Jap [...]Keywords : japan, video game, industry, guidebook, job