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Introduction aux "Serious Games" (Lesson)

A presentation about "Serious Games", i.e. games designed for purposes going beyond entertainment. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)  

Keywords : serious games, introduction, discovery, examples, history

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A gesture-controlled Serious Game for teaching preschoolers with autism facial emotion recognition (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 leads to inappropriate behavior derived from their inability to interact adequately with other people. Those deficits seem to be rather permanent in individuals with aut [...]

Keywords : Autism, Facial emotion recognition, Gestures, Kinect, NUI

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Jogo sério para aprendizagem da instabilidade de vertentes (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract Serious games have been receiving a lot of interest in the recent years and have been increasingly used for educational, military and business purposes. One of the positive sides of serious games is the fact of being tools that allow the creation of an environment where players are immersed in a playful activity, and are much more receptive to knowledge acquisition. Through serious games players are more likely to retain information for a longer period of time. The terrain instabil [...]

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SeGaMed 2013 : Sept 12-14 Nice, FR - Call for papers (Blog post)

 SeGaMed 2013: Sept 12-14 Nice, FRCall for proposals A renewal 2013 edition ... After the success of the 2012 conference, the School of Medicine of Nice is hosting the second international SeGaMed conference dedicated to the applying of serious games for medicine and healthcare.This year, two major innovations: the embedding of SeGaMed as a conference of the first "Journées de l'Enseignement Universitaire par le Numérique en Santé" (the 'JEUNS) and the o [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Health, Health game

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Sortie d'une nouvelle édition d'un ouvrage sur les "Serious Games" (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : serious game, book

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Expanding the magic circle in pervasive casual play (Broacasting our studies)

In this document we present proposals for merging the fictional game world with the real world taking into account the profile of casual players. To merge games with reality we resorted to the creation of games that explore diverse real world elements. We focused on sound, video, physiological data, accelerometer data, weather and location. We made the choice for these real world elements because data, about those elements, can be acquired making use of functionality already available, or forese [...]

Keywords : Casual games, Pervasive games, Sound, Video, Physiological data, Electrodermal activity, Accelerometer, Weather

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Serious Games: an introduction, now available as eBook! (Blog post)

 Our editor has just published an eBook version of our book "Serious Games: an introduction". This version meets the request of several readers who asked us an electronic format. It is available here. For the occasion, our editor has put online the first 32 pages of this 2nd edition of the book in free access. Enjoy! 

Keywords : Serious game, Serious Gaming, Serious Play, eBook, Health, Learning, Market, Communication

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Serious Games pour la formation : utiliser, faire ou faire faire ? (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : serious games, education

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La création de Serious Games avec des étudiants de l'enseignement supérieur : retour d'expériences (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : serious games, game creation tools, project based learning

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Julian Alvarez (Play research lab) : "Les serious games permettent de contextualiser les enseignements théoriques avec des cas concrets" (Broacasting our studies)

     Les 4 et 5 juin 2013 s'est tenu le salon E-virtuoses, dédié au serious game et à tous ses usages. Julian Alvarez, chercheur au Play research lab, laboratoire R&D de la CCI Grand Hainaut et enseignant à l’université Lille 1, revient sur un concept clé pour l'enseignement supérieur, le serious gaming. A l'heure où la question de l’innovation pédagogique est de plus en plus présente dans l [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Serious gaming, Education, Learning

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