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Towards Participative and Knowledge-Intensive Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
We propose the “Architecture for Representations, Games, Interactions, and Learning among Experts” (ARGILE) for participatory and knowledge -intensive serious games. Faced with the problem of training on professional practices in areas of advanced expertise, reference knowledge are neither stabilized nor unanimous, but rather dynamic and continuously evolving. Moreover, the practicioner does not make decisions based on pre-established recipes, but it is brought to trial and error, to [...]Keywords : Participation architecture, e-training, Serious games, Knowledge Engineering, Cooperation, Discussion forum
Co-located Interaction in Casual Games for the Dissemination of Traditional Stories (Broacasting our studies)
In this paper a strategy is presented for the dissemination of traditional stories via an interaction between the real world and the virtual world. In our game the player will not be isolated in front of the monitor and will have to call upon others to be successful. The game is a stimulus for players to discover a country’s history having legends as a starting point. Our focus is on the particular case of Enchanted Moors that are part of Iberian mythology. The user study showed that, afte [...]Keywords : Legend, Cultural Heritage, Casual Game
Fun house ludus loci and the American home as folly (Broacasting our studies)
ABSRACT While play marks both the cultural and pre-cultural spheres of human existence, the environmental design disciplines have almost exclusively compartmentalized the notions of play and fun into categories of leisure and children’s playgrounds. The rhetorics of environmental design, to date, have ignored, or at best marginalized, the possibility of play outside of recreational and commercial contexts. Still, we have abundant examples of playful architecture and fun places that st [...]Keywords : Design, Architecture, Fun architecture, Game
A Serious Game for Incidence Response Education and Training (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:A critical incident at any institution may include bomb threats, assault, bio-hazardous spills, civil disobedience, electrical outage, fire or explosion, gas leak, natural disasters, infectious diseases, and terrorist threats. Although many employees know of this type of situation, most are not properly trained with respect to how to react when a critical incident occurs, nor do they understand lockdown procedures. Serious games refer to video games that are used for training, advertisi [...]How to Analyse Therapeutic Games: The Player / Game / Therapy Model (Broacasting our studies)
In this paper, we present a new model to analyse therapeutic games. The goal of the model is to describe and analyse the relations between the three aspects of a therapeutic game: the player, the game, and the therapy. The model is intended to game designers. It is a tool to improve the communication between health experts and game designers, and to evaluate the game design coherency of therapeutic games. It also helps to analyse existing games to discover relevant features. The model is built w [...]Keywords : Video games, Evaluation, Analysis, Model, Game design, Serious games, Therapeutic
Serious Games: Issues, offer and market Education - Training - Health Care Information & Communication - Defence (3rd Edition) (Broacasting our studies)
This study examines the various market segments of Serious Gaming based on detailed case studies and a systematic presentation of the corresponding technologies, practices and know-how, while emphasising on the key stages of the design, development and dissemination phases. It also provides technology and business prospects for each market segment. Serious Gaming (SG) is at the crossroads of several disciplines: e-learning, computing, engineering, virtual world d [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Market, Evolution, Health, Defence, Education, Study, Training
An introduction to Serious game - Definitions and concepts (Broacasting our studies)
This review article proposes a definition of the object “Serious Game” and an approach dedicated to classify its variousoccurrences. Summary of the review "Serious Games & Simulation for Risks Management" ISBN 978-2-9541430-0-2 (PDF): ALVAREZ, Julian ; DJAOUTI DamienAn introduction to Serious game - Definitions and concepts .................................................................... p 11SOLER, Luc ; MARESCAUX, JacquesVirtual Surgical [...]Keywords : Serious game, Definition, Classification, Taxonomy
Human or avatar: psychological dimensions on full scope, hybrid, and virtual reality simulators (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract Professional training for risky professions involves simulation training. This kind of facilities has appeared very important to give to the workers the initial knowledge, to improve the skills of experienced workers, and to make them face rare situations for which they must be potentially ready to deal with. The past years, a broad range of simulation systems including virtuality have become available on the market, and the professions concerned are wider every year. The possibili [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Simulation, Training
Serious Game Design - Theoretical and technical study of the creation of games aimed to serve serious purposes (Broacasting our studies)
Nowadays, videogames are an important part of popular culture. Although videogames are most famous as leisure, the wave of " Serious Games " aims to use them for a wide range of serious purposes: teaching, communication, therapy, professional training, advertising, political propaganda… This thesis focuses on the design of such " Serious Games ". More specifically, we will try to identify means able to ease the creation of Serious Games. To achieve this goal, we will f [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Game Design, creation, game creation toolkits, modding, videogames, constructionnism , pedagogy
The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985 - 1993 (Book reference)
This autobiography is composed by the personal journal of Jordan Mechner during the creation of his famous game Prince of Persia (1989). The authors tells us about his thoughts, his doubts, his joy, and more specifically about the different steps towards the creation of this classic 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 [...]Keywords : biographie, prince of persia, jordan mechner, artist, creative process