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The concepts of Gamification, Ludopedagogy (Edutainment), Serious Game and Serious Gaming (Broacasting our studies)

Study day dedicated to Art and neuroscience. In this context, the aim of the conference was to explain the concepts of Gamification, Ludopedagogy, Serious Game and Serious Gaming.  

Keywords : Gamification, Serious game, Video game, Ludopedagogy, Edutainment, Serious gaming, Art, Neuroscience

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Video game & training: discover the ingredients of a tasty recipe! SERIOUS GAME & GAMIFICATION (Broacasting our studies)

Workshop designed to introduce participants to how to structure a fun educational session through a concrete illustration: setting up a fun activity involving video games. The objective is to make them understand the concept of the three educational stages: introducing, facilitating and debriefing the activity to maximize the chances of achieving the useful goals.

Keywords : Video game, Pedagogy, Ludopedagogy, Edutainment, Serious game, Gamification, Structuring

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Origin of serious video games (Broacasting our studies)

50 years ago, in 1972, the general public really discovered video games, with the commercial success of Atari's Pong arcade machine and the launch of the first home console: Odyssey's Magnavox. Before 1972, video games already existed, but they were not really accessible to the general public. This was known as the “prehistory of video games”.20 years ago, in 2002, the general public discovered the video game title America's Army. Developed for the U.S. Army and distributed free on t [...]

Keywords : Serious games, Retro serious games, Video games, Retrogaming, Video game history

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How serious is play? What role can play in schools? (Broacasting our studies)

    Round-table discussion on the place of games in schools and libraries. As part of this cross-fertilization between teachers, librarians, librarians and researchers, the idea was to examine the benefits and constraints of using and lending games in the school environment. Board games and video games were associated with these questions.      

Keywords : Board game, Serious Game, Ludopedagogy, Edutainment, Documentation, Library, School, Documentation and information center

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Gameplay Bricks Model, a Theoretical Framework to Match Game Mechanics and Cognitive Functions (Broacasting our studies)

This article investigated whether it is possible to establish correspondences between game mechanics and particular cognitive stimulations. There are many challenges to prevent and treat cognitive decline with aging or neurocognitive disease. Observing difficulties to establish such correspondences in the scientific literature, we proposed to move away from “classification by genre” or any other type of taxonomy that deviates from the framework of the “Rules/Formal schemas&rdqu [...]

Keywords : video games, serious games, game mechanics, cognitive functions, executive functions

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Evolution and influences of the key-words « gameplay », « ludic » and « fun » in the writings produced by English-speaking and French-speaking journal (Broacasting our studies)

ISSN-L (papier) : 1622-1494 · ISSN (électronique) : 2111-434XArticle pp.213-248 du Vol.17 n°1-2 (2021) TitleEvolution and influences of the key-words “gameplay”, “ludic” and “fun” in the writings produced by English-speaking and French-speaking journalist’s communities related to video games between 1977 and 2019 AbstractThis paper aims to study whether the community of English-speaking journalist [...]

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Emergence of the "gameplay" term in the English-speaking and French-speaking video game culture sphere in the 20th century (Broacasting our studies)

The present study aims to verify the emergence of the terms « game play » (in one word) and « gameplay » (in two words) within the framework of the Anglophone and Francophone video game cultural sphere. Starting from the writings of Wikipedia who sees the origin of these words associated with the mention « How the game plays ? » which would have appeared on the first coin-op arcade games, we are conducting an investigation of [...]

Keywords : gameplay, game play, video game, lexicometry, emergence, coin-op arcade Games, History of video game

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Digital games and Ludopedagogy: Introduction to a special issue (Broacasting our studies)

 Vol 6 - Issue 1  By proposing to study both the genesis and the actuality, but also the implementation and the reception of digital games in the educational worlds, this thematic file aims at enriching the reflection in two fields of research, that of the "educations to" and that of a digital (or informational) culture. See the special issue: https://www.openscience.fr/Numero-1-678     

Keywords : Serious games, Video games, Ludopedagogy, Game based learning

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The value of play in learning (Broacasting our studies)

Edutainment is the idea of using games as a learning task. But why use games in teaching and training? What are the added values of such an approach?

Keywords : Serious game, Video game, Ludopedagogy, Edutainment

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BIP Editorial - special issue dedicated to Edutainment (Broacasting our studies)

Edutainment is the idea of using games, or even serious games, to mediate learning. It's about going beyond games as simple rewards or extrinsic motivational levers: “if you do your exercise well, you'll be able to play”. With edutainment, games are used as a tool or resource for learning. For example, it can be used to provide concrete representations of experiences, to test hypotheses, to stimulate pedagogical interaction between learners or with those proposing the activity...With [...]

Keywords : Game based learning, Edutainement, Serious game, Editorial, Games

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