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Design Games and Game Design: Relations Between Design, Codesign and Serious Games in Adult Education (Broacasting our studies)
This chapter defines, explores and illustrates the terms "design", "design games", "game design", "codesign", "games", "serious games" and "gamification". It explores links between design and serious play. The chapter also identifies the different approaches people know about in order to design a serious game, illustrates it with examples and checks on a case-by-case basis whether the deep mises en abymes currently associated [...]Keywords : Serious game, Design, Design game, Game Design, Codesign, Games, Gamification
Ludopedagogy (Broacasting our studies)
Ludopedagogy is the idea of using games, or serious games, as a teaching method. Contrary to what such a term might suggest etymologically (“pedo” refers to “child”), the term “ludopedagogy” comes from adult education. Banks and major groups use the term to designate teaching methods to designate teaching methods targeting their employees. We could, however, refer to such approaches as “ludo-andragogy”. But this neologism has no currency.Unive [...]Keywords : Ludopedagogy, Edutainement, Serious game, Pedagogy
Blue Bot experimentation (Broacasting our studies)
Workshop aimed at demonstrating the Blue Bot experimentation protocol and having it evaluated by peers.This is a comparative study carried out with Grande Section de Maternelle children on their learning of computer coding via a serious game.Keywords : Serious game, Educational robot, Comparative study, Modality, Kindergarten, Body, Tablet PC, Robot
Tangible objects as part of an educational sequence (Broacasting our studies)
Workshop aimed at experimenting with the evaluation protocol to be deployed around the Volar research project. The latter is a Serious Game using tangible objects. The aim of this research project is to carry out a comparative study between an all-digital Serious Game and a hybrid Serious Game involving both digital and tangible objects.Keywords : Serious game, IOT, Tangible objects, Ludopedagogy, Edutainment, Protocol, Evaluation, Experimentation
Blue Bot Project experiment: First statistical results of the performance of 5-year-olds pupils on their ability to program (Broacasting our studies)
BLUE BOT PROJECT Serious digital games are attractive educational tools and resources which are undoubtedly relevant in appropriate contexts and situations (Alvarez et al., 2016). Faced with growing screen consumption by young children and its dangers on the development of several capacities, the exposure of kindergarten children is questionable (Tisseron, 2013). In order to benefit from the potential of serious digital games, without achieving overexposure to the screen, the use of toys su [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Robot
The creation of "Newsgames" as a teaching method: empirical observations (Broacasting our studies)
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In 2013, the cover of “Nature” magazine was devoted to the benefits of video games for senior citizens. Today, the big video game players are positioning themselves in this field: for example, Nintendo has been offering “Dr Kawashima's Brain Training” since 2007, or the “Walk with Me” application, which is designed to facilitate daily exercise and encourage walking. A Japanese company like Bandai Namco, whose business is the development and marketing of video [...]Keywords : Health game, Serious game, Health, Patient, Defintion
Analogies between the world of cinema and Serious Games (Blog post)
To understand how Serious Games fit into the videogame landscape, we can draw an analogy with the world of cinema.In the film industry, we primarily find big-budget entertainment films, also known as “block busters”.In the video-game industry, the equivalent would be AAA (triple-A) titles. Next come auteur or independent films. This is where we find the independent games community.As for art films, we identify Arts games such as Jason Rohrer's Passage.Then we come to documentari [...]Keywords : Serious game, Video game industry, Documentary, Movie industry, Docu-fiction, Art game, Advergame, Audio-visual