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SIMFOR: un jeu sérieux pour la gestion de crise (Broacasting our studies)
In this paper we present the concept of serious game, with our project SIMFOR a serious game for training in crisis management. We discuss the problems and needs of serious games and a diaporama of existing work. To enhance the learning aspect in serious games, we propose the integration of different modules of an intelligent tutoring system to the serious game. This integration is reflected in the design of an ontology representing the domain module of ITS in the field of risk management. [...]Keywords : Serious games, Intelligent tutoring system, Crisis management, Multi-agent system
A Serious Game for Incidence Response Education and Training (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:A critical incident at any institution may include bomb threats, assault, bio-hazardous spills, civil disobedience, electrical outage, fire or explosion, gas leak, natural disasters, infectious diseases, and terrorist threats. Although many employees know of this type of situation, most are not properly trained with respect to how to react when a critical incident occurs, nor do they understand lockdown procedures. Serious games refer to video games that are used for training, advertisi [...]How to Analyse Therapeutic Games: The Player / Game / Therapy Model (Broacasting our studies)
In this paper, we present a new model to analyse therapeutic games. The goal of the model is to describe and analyse the relations between the three aspects of a therapeutic game: the player, the game, and the therapy. The model is intended to game designers. It is a tool to improve the communication between health experts and game designers, and to evaluate the game design coherency of therapeutic games. It also helps to analyse existing games to discover relevant features. The model is built w [...]Keywords : Video games, Evaluation, Analysis, Model, Game design, Serious games, Therapeutic
Serious Games: Issues, offer and market Education - Training - Health Care Information & Communication - Defence (3rd Edition) (Broacasting our studies)
This study examines the various market segments of Serious Gaming based on detailed case studies and a systematic presentation of the corresponding technologies, practices and know-how, while emphasising on the key stages of the design, development and dissemination phases. It also provides technology and business prospects for each market segment. Serious Gaming (SG) is at the crossroads of several disciplines: e-learning, computing, engineering, virtual world d [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Market, Evolution, Health, Defence, Education, Study, Training
Serious Game Design : Une thèse sur la conception de Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : serious game, phd thesis, game design
An introduction to Serious game - Definitions and concepts (Broacasting our studies)
This review article proposes a definition of the object “Serious Game” and an approach dedicated to classify its variousoccurrences. Summary of the review "Serious Games & Simulation for Risks Management" ISBN 978-2-9541430-0-2 (PDF): ALVAREZ, Julian ; DJAOUTI DamienAn introduction to Serious game - Definitions and concepts .................................................................... p 11SOLER, Luc ; MARESCAUX, JacquesVirtual Surgical [...]Keywords : Serious game, Definition, Classification, Taxonomy
Human or avatar: psychological dimensions on full scope, hybrid, and virtual reality simulators (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract Professional training for risky professions involves simulation training. This kind of facilities has appeared very important to give to the workers the initial knowledge, to improve the skills of experienced workers, and to make them face rare situations for which they must be potentially ready to deal with. The past years, a broad range of simulation systems including virtuality have become available on the market, and the professions concerned are wider every year. The possibili [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Simulation, Training
Serious Game Design - Theoretical and technical study of the creation of games aimed to serve serious purposes (Broacasting our studies)
Nowadays, videogames are an important part of popular culture. Although videogames are most famous as leisure, the wave of " Serious Games " aims to use them for a wide range of serious purposes: teaching, communication, therapy, professional training, advertising, political propaganda… This thesis focuses on the design of such " Serious Games ". More specifically, we will try to identify means able to ease the creation of Serious Games. To achieve this goal, we will f [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Game Design, creation, game creation toolkits, modding, videogames, constructionnism , pedagogy
Origins of Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
This chapters tackles the historical origins of Serious Games: "The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the historical origins of Serious Games to try to understand where the current wave of "Serious Games" comes from. We first review the origins of the "Serious Games" oxymoron. We will then analyse digital games designed for serious purposes before the 2000's. Such games can be traced back to the beginning of the history of video games. We will use all these elem [...]Keywords : serious games, history
Designing and Evaluating Emotional Student Models for Game-Based Learning (Broacasting our studies)
AbstractResearch in game-based learning environments aims to recognise and show emotion. This chapter describes the main approaches and challenges involved in achieving these goals. In addition, we propose an emotional student model that can reason about students’ emotions using observable behaviour and responses to questions. Our model uses Control-Value Theory (Pekrun et al., The control value theory of achievement emotions. An integrative approach to emotions in education. In: Schutz, P [...]Keywords : Computer Science, Computers and Education