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Mobile Game for Learning Bacteriology (Broacasting our studies)
This paper treats serious games. Recently, one of the game genres called serious game has become popular, which has other purposes besides enjoyments like education, training and so on. Especially, learning games of the serious games seem very attractive for the age of video games so that the authors developed a mobile game for learning bacteriology as one of the achievements of their research project. In this paper, the authors introduce the game and show evaluated results about its learning ef [...]Keywords : Serious games, Mobile learning, Educational contents, Bacteriology
Persuasive Health Games (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT Obesity and being overweight has become an increasing trend in America’s society over the last decade. This disease is not only affecting adults, but children as well. This statistic continues to rise due to controllable and uncontrollable factors, including poor nutrition and unfortunate medical conditions. Researchers have turned to persuasive technology in the form of health games to attack the “Battle of the Bulge.” These games fall into three different catego [...]Keywords : Persuasive technology, Health games, Casual games, Exergames, Serious games
?Serious games?: Play to understand? (Broacasting our studies)
Where do “serious games” come from? What are they used for? How can they be safeguarded? BnF is organizing a series of events around this new form of learning. To round things off, a study afternoon on February 5, focusing on social issues, brought together game designers, teacher-researchers and BnF experts to analyze this fast-growing phenomenon, from school to work, from vocational training to citizenship awareness.Keywords : Serious game, Pedagogy, Market, Origin, Classification
Autour des jeux sérieux (serious games) : Définition générale et terminologie (Broacasting our studies)
=====================Résumé de la présentation=====================Selon la BNF, depuis 2014, le Ministère de la Culture tient à ce que nous privilégions le vocable « jeu sérieux » à la place de « Serious Game ». Il convient cependant de souligner qu’une telle traduction introduit une subtilité. En effet, dans la langue française, la notion de « jeu » [...]Keywords : Serious game
Autour des jeux sérieux (serious games) : Histoire du Serious Game (Broacasting our studies)
Cette présentation expose à un public génraliste un petit résumé de l'histoire des Serious Games. Programme de la journée : Cette nouvelle forme de communication et d’apprentissage, issue des jeux vidéo, se retrouve peu à peu dans tous les domaines de notre vie, de l’école au travail, en passant par notre santé ou notre citoyenneté. D’où viennent-ils, quels sont leurs usages, comment l [...]Keywords : Serious Game, History
The One Fork Restaurant - postmortem (Blog post)
Happy new year everyone! This new year comes with an improved version of my first ever LudumDare competition entry: The One Fork Restaurant. To celebrate the release of the final version of this game, I've decided to write down a full postmortem about it. As the title implies, it's a funny time-management game taking place in a restaurant, where many people come to eat various meals. But the restaurant has only one fork, so customers have to share it! When the customers are w [...]Keywords : the one fork restaurant, postmortem, ludum dare 28, game design, game development
RIHM Revue des Interactions Humaines Médiatisées 2013, Volume 14 - Issue 1 (thematic issue coordination) (Broacasting our studies)
While video games have established themselves as a major cultural industry of our time, the serious game, which derives from it, is arousing growing interest: more than simple entertainment, it promises to offer numerous perspectives in terms of prevention, training, education, learning, therapy, communication, training, data collection, etc. This is why the Grand Hainaut Chamber of Commerce and Industry took the initiative of organizing, since 2012 in Valenciennes, with the support of the Picta [...]Keywords : Serious game, Video game, Chamber of commerce
An overview of serious games (Broacasting our studies)
Serious games are growing rapidly as a gaming industry as well as a field of academic research. There are many surveys in the field of digital serious games; however, most surveys are specific to a particular area such as education or health. So far, there has been little work done to survey digital serious games in general, which is the main goal of this paper. Hence, we discuss relevant work on serious games in different application areas including education, well-being, advertisement, cultura [...]Mapping and Analysing Prospective learning for technologies: Results from a consultation with European stakeholders and roadmaps for policy action (Broacasting our studies)
The Europe 2020 strategy acknowledges that a fundamental transformation of education and training is needed to address the new skills and competences that will be required if Europe is to remain competitive, overcome the current economic crisis and grasp new opportunities. Innovating in education and training is a key priority in several flagship initiatives of the Europe 2020 strategy, in particular the Agenda for New Skills and Jobs, Youth on the Move, the Digital Agenda, and the Innovation Un [...]Keywords : Learning, Serious Game, Game
LawVille: a Collaborative Serious Game (Broacasting our studies)
Nowadays Serious Games (SGs) are becoming more and more popular and establish themself as an important research field of e-learning. Since the first multimedia SGs developed for US Army in 2002 (www.americasarmy.com), videogames have been increasingly... References (1): Djaouti D., Alvarez J., Jessel J., Rampnoux O. (2011). “Origins of serious games,” in Serious Games and Edutainment Applications, eds Ma M., Oikonomou A., Jain L. C., editors. (New Y [...]Keywords : Serious game