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Digital Humanities: Current Perspective, Practices, and Research (Broacasting our studies)
The field of Digital Humanities is becoming more exciting as the number of low-cost or free mobile and desktop applications flood the market allowing users to accomplish tasks that only a few years ago were either not possible or required complicated coding or high-end ... References (1): Djaouti, D., Alvarez, J., Jessel, J.-P., & Rampnoux, O. (2011). Origins of serious games. In M. Ma, A. Oikonomou & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Serious games and edutainment applications [...]Keywords : Serious game, Retro Serious game
A gesture-controlled Serious Game for teaching emotion recognition skills to preschoolers with autism (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT 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. With the appropriate intervention, elimination of those deficits can be achieved. Interventions are proposed to start as early as possible. Computer-based programs have been widely used with success to teach people [...]Keywords : Serious Games, Gesture-based interaction, Natural User Interface, Autism, Facial emotion recognition
Serious games for disseminating the knowledge of ancient manuscripts: a case study (Broacasting our studies)
In this paper we present a Digital Serious Game set in a medieval alchemical laboratory, aimed at disseminating the ancient knowledge of medicine distillation contained in the famous Adam Lonicer's Kreuterbuch (1569) treatise. The application is based on interactive Virtual Environments and available on multiple visualization technologies, ranging from simple touch-based tablet up to immersive environments such as CAVEs or Oculus Rift. The game comes as the latest development level o [...]Keywords : Libraries Archives, Virtual Environment, Immersion, Interaction, Learning, Digital Serious Games
Fostering teachers? creativity through the creation of GBL scenarios (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract Social, economic and global changes make it difficult to predict what the future might hold. Creativity is one possible response to these changes. Indeed, creative skills enable students to face the complex nature of life. As a result, creativity has become significant in education, and is regarded as an important objective to be addressed in the curriculum. Nevertheless, creativity is not always promoted in schools. Rather, there are those who claim that many educational systems hinder [...]Keywords : Game design, Creativity, Game-based learning
An Efficient Game Level Generation in Web-Based Serious Game (Broacasting our studies)
Despite the growing interest in interactive storytelling techniques, their actual applications to traditional gameplay design remain to be investigated. However, many game designers have expressed concerns about the incorporation of such generative techniques in traditional game titles, mainly because of the lack of control they will have over dynamically generated content. This paper proposes an authoring tool allowing game designers to formalize, visualize, modify, and validate game level solu [...]Keywords : Cultural Heritage , Serious Game, Game Level Design, Gameplay
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