Abstract:There has been a constant increase in the number of serious games. In recent years, they have become extremely important within the scientific community and their repercussions on industry have been reflected in exponential growth in terms of their economic impact. The term serious game covers an extremely wide range of video games all with very different purposes and with many different areas of application. One of the most prolific areas is the field of education and many research pap
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Mots-clés : Games, Unified modeling language, Proposals, Education, Avatars, Software, Adaptation models
Abstract:There has been a constant increase in the number of serious games. In recent years, they have become extremely important within the scientific community and their repercussions on industry have been reflected in exponential growth in terms of their economic impact. The term serious game covers an extremely wide range of video games all with very different purposes and with many different areas of application. One of the most prolific areas is the field of education and many research pap
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Mots-clés : Games, Unified modeling language, Proposals, Education, Avatars, Software, Adaptation models
Les articles "Des "Serious Games" à l'Hôpital" et "Soigner avec la simulation médicale" de Nathalie Picard, parus ce 6 Septembre 2016, questionnent l'utilisation des jeux à l'hôpital. L'équipe Ludoscience a été interviewé dans le cadre de ces articles. Voici les extraits disponibles en ligne : Des "Serious Games" à l'Hôpital Les yeux rivés sur l’ordi
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Santé, Health game, Hôpital
Vous êtes médecin. Dans votre cabinet se présentent trois patients atteints d’une forme de fibrillation atriale, un trouble fréquent du rythme cardiaque. A vous de poser le diagnostic et de déterminer la prise en charge adéquate. L’expérience est proposée par FA Adventure, un programme de simulation médicale virtuelle conçu par Medusims.L’utilisateur gère un avatar médecin q
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Hôpital, Health game, Recherche, Santé, Médecine
Objective: Serious games are becoming popular in various healthcare domains. However, they should be designed to cater toward learners' perspectives, needs, and specifications in order to be used to their full potential in education. This study investigated the gaming experiences, motivations, and preferences of pharmacy students.Materials and Methods: An anonymous self-administered survey obtained participant demographics, gaming experiences (enjoyment level of different game genres,
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The main research question addressed in this thesis is how the choice of game type influences the success of digital educational games (DEG), where success is defined as significant knowledge gain in combination with positive player experience. Games differ in type if they differ at least by one game feature. As a first step we identified a comprehensive set of unique game features, summarised in the Game Elements-Attributes Model (GEAM), where elements are the defining components that all game
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Mots-clés : digital educational games (DEG), Game Elements-Attributes Model (GEAM), Jeux vidéo, Classification
Cet article se propose de mettre en évidence les ressorts motivationnels des « jeux sérieux » à partir d’une expérimentation menée auprès d’un échantillon d’étudiants Tunisiens. Pour ce faire on a consacré une première partie théorique pour exploiter l’univers des « jeux sérieux » afin de comprendre les avantages de ce média en termes de m
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Mots-clés : Jeux sérieux, Motivation, Scénario Pédagogique, Interactivité
ABSTRACTBackground: Serious games are motivating and provide a safe environment for students to learn from their mistakes without experiencing any negative consequences from their actions. However, little is known about students’ gaming preferences and the types of serious games they like to play for education.Objective: This study aims to determine the types of gaming aspects that students would like to play in a pharmacy-related serious game.Methods: A cross-sectional stud
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Mots-clés : gaming aspects, pharmacy-related serious game, pharmacy practice education, reward systems, game settings, storylines, viewing perspectives, gaming styles
ABSTRACT This thesis addresses the problems of the development of serious games, focusing particularly on bridging the gap between of two separate communities: developers and domain experts, that is, educators. Nowadays, students are used to “consume” a large number of games for different purposes (mainly for leisure), and they are expecting a certain quality level in the games (e.g. media assets, story, effects, etc.) and affecting the attitude of playing the game if it does no
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Mots-clés : Educational video games, Serious games, Game design, Human-Computer interaction, Game engine
Abstract:This paper presents the design and implementation of a mini map navigation system into an RPG Action Adventure game created using Unity3D game engine with the goal of improving the usability and user experience. The main aim of this work is to find out how a mini map navigation system can be beneficial to the end user and improve the over game play of a video game. The mini map can help reducing the user frustration, as well as aiding story progression so that it keeps the user immersed
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Mots-clés : Jeux, Navigation, Prototypes, Utilisabilité, Animation, Caméras, Computers, Ordinateurs