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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
THE SERIOUS GAMES FOR LEARNING THE CHALLENGE OF A STANDARD MAINTENANCE AND COMPETITIVE GAMEPLAY AND DESIGN (Broacasting our studies)
Introduction The value of video games for learning is a controversial issue that has fueled numerous investigations since the first electronic games captivated generations of young people and children in the 80s (and Méndiz De Aguilera, 2004). While, initially, there were suspicions to believe that video games could be useful in education and training field currently, it is a widely shared by both researchers concept, for educators (Del Moral, 2010; Gros, 2009, Gros, 2000 Etxeberr&ia [...]Keywords : Video games, Learning, Values
Etude des déterminants psychologiques de la persistance dans l'usage d'un jeu sérieux : évaluation de l'environnement optimal d'apprentissage avec Mec (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of this paper is to show the relevance of motivational key concepts in evaluating the use of serious game. Thisresearch involves115studentstrainingwith Mecagenius® (serious game in mechanical engineering). The results of theexploratorystudy also confirmthe relevance of theuseof flow in Education scale (EduFlow) to evaluatethe optimallearning experiencewitha serious game. It also appearsthatEduFlowisrelated tospecific actions within the school context such as self-efficacy, motivatio [...]Keywords : Serious game, Flow, Self-efficacy, Interest, Motivational climate
Serious games and human resources management: a mapping in the CAC 40 companies (Broacasting our studies)
For almost ten years, serious games have been becoming more and more popular in large French companies, especially toward human resource managers who use them to recruit, integrate, train, support, develop, communicate and sensitize. However, few research papers are based on the academic literature in management science. The purpose of this paper is to build a typology of serious games based on their use in human resource management. To construct this typology, an inventory of all serious games [...]Keywords : Serious game, Ressources humaines, Cartographie, Usages, Grandes entreprises
Playful Interfaces for Scientific Image Data: A Case for Storytelling (Broacasting our studies)
Recent developments in the field of HCI draw our attention to the potential of playful interfaces, play, and games. This chapter identifies a new but relevant application domain for playful interfaces (i.e. scientific practice involving image data). Given the thesis that play and playfulness are relevant for a researcher’s interaction with scientific images, the question remains: How do we design playful interfaces that support meaningful ways to playfully engage with scientific images? Th [...]Keywords : Games, Storytelling, Data