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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
The Making of Karateka: Journals 1982-1985 (Book reference)
This autobiography is composed by the personal journal of Jordan Mechner during the creation of his famous game Karateka (1984). The authors tells us about his thoughts, his doubts, his joy, and more specifically about the different steps towards the creation of this popular game. A very interesting read, despite a rather "rough" writing style : this book allows you to literally enter inside the head of Jordan Mechner, a creative genius with a lot more doubts and fears that we cou [...]Keywords : biography, jordan mechner, karateka, artist, creative process
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
Quels accompagnements associer au Serious game ? (Broacasting our studies)
This article proposes to identify different types of tutoring to mobilize when one wishes to create a Serious game. Read the article on line (p.186-189) ISBN : 978-2-9813635-1-0 (PDF version) 978-2-9813635-0-3 (printed version) Download the articleKeywords : Serious Game, Tutoring, Learning
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Journée d’études sur le Serious Game 7 décembre, MSH Paris Nord Labex ICCA (Industries de la Culture et Création Artistique) Résumé Dans le cadre du groupe de recherche sur le Serious Game du Labex Industries culturelles et création artistique (ICCA), cette journée d’études vise à présenter et discuter des approches théoriques et méthodologiques en se penchant &ag [...]An introduction to the exciting world of Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
An introduction to the exciting world of Serious Games The month of November IUM recently played host to none other than renowned researcher and consultant Dr. Julian Alvarez who was presenting a lecture to students on Serious Games and Game Technologies. He talked to students of the course Fundamentals of communication and advertising which is overseen by Professor MN. Jauffret-Cervetti. He mesmerized the students with the technology behind Advergames, Edumarket games and gamificatio [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Advergames, Conference, Communication, Gamification
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This paper aims to propose a state of the art of digital tools for health training. On this occasion, it draws an overview of these objects according to 3 categories: Serious Game, Serious Play and Simulator. The analysis of these categories leads us to specify the characteristics, uses, audiences, objectives... of each of them. In this way, we establish a link between Serious Play and Simulator and clearly distinguish Simulators from Serious Games. The simulator is sometimes based on numerical [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Serious Play, Simulator, Simulation
Update: publications and projects (Blog post)
A quick update on the website to add some new publications and projects in which we were involved. Regarding publications, you'll find a couple of posters displayed at the VS-Games 2012 conference to present two ongoing research projects. The first one is titled "TBL3D: Towards Serious Applications for Telescope Maintenance and Control", and presents a Serious Games project about the giant Telescope of a french observatory (download the poster). The second poster details a q [...]Keywords : projects, publications