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Joypads ! : Le design des manettes (Book reference)
As the title implies, this book tackles the history of videogames through a quite unique viewpoint: gamepads. This book analyses each and every gamepad released for a home console, from the Atari 2600 controllers to Xbox 360 ones. It is divided in five parts. The first one goes through the early beginnings of game controllers : it analyses the ones created for Spacewar! and Tennis for Two, among others. The second part is dedicated to the evolution of controllers handling, and details how the va [...]Keywords : joypads, history, gamepads, game design
Characterization and Evaluation of Serious Games: A Perspective of Their Use in Higher Education (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:Serious games are video games or computer games designed for training or educational purposes. Thanks to the interesting and useful opportunities that they provide such as interactivity, immersion, simulation they become well accepted and well spread among professional and academic fields. However, the selection of the most suitable serious games to a specific educational goal seems to be not well studied in the literature. This paper tries to meet this research gap by developing a new [...]Keywords : Games, Training, Business, Biological system modeling, Educational institutions, Entertainment industry
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
The adoption of gamification in e-banking (Broacasting our studies)
The development of multiple web applications with features of video games gave way to a new trend called Gamification. However, there isn't a clear explanation that allows the connection of the elements of the game applications with non-game features, mainly in traditional highly regulated financial sector. The aim of this study is to investigate the acceptance of a business application Gamified in e-banking. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the results from an online survey of 18 [...]Keywords : Gamification, 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
Facial expression recognition teaching to preschoolers with autism: a natural user interface approach (Broacasting our studies)
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. Their difficulties in understanding and expressing emotions lead to inappropriate behavior derived from their inability to interact adequately with other people. Those deficits seem to be rather permanent in individuals with auti [...]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
LE POTENTIEL ÉDUCATIF DES JEUX VIDÉO ET SÉRIEUX: REVUE DE LITTÉRATURE (Broacasting our studies)
This literature review discusses impacts of video games and serious games in terms of educational potential and contributions to education and learning. After defining video games and serious game, authors examine successively the motivational dimensions and developmental effects of these games and their interest in schools and universities. References (1): Alvarez, J., Du jeu video au serious game : approche culturelle, pragmatique et formelle, Thèse de doctorat, Spécial [...]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
A Research on Gamification Methodology for Korean Language Education (Broacasting our studies)
In this paper we proposed a gamification methodology for Korean language education. We suggested gamification elements that increased the fun factor and induced immersion by analyzing the successful gamification cases which can be classified into three types; management, Implementation, and self-expression. Then, we analyzed Korean learning theory and methods to extract four key aspects, listening, speaking, vocabulary and culture from eight Korean learning function. Finally, by using Korean Wav [...]Keywords : Korean wave, Korean language, Korean learning, Gamification, Game, Education, Learning