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Design Games and Game Design: Relations Between Design, Codesign and Serious Games in Adult Education (Diffusion de nos travaux)
As explained in the general introduction, experience design implies an "experience to be lived" (Vial, 2015) where the subjects "interact with their natural and artificial environment". If we can easily imagine a "natural" or "artificial" environment, there is an in-between proposed by the game. Neither totally "natural" because it can rely on artifacts, nor totally "artificial" because some animals pla [...]Mots-clés : Serious Game, Design Game, Game design, Gamification, Ungamification, Dégamification, Serious Game design, Serious Play design
Tracking Students? Activities in Serious Games (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract A Serious Game (SG) is a virtual process designed for the purpose of real-world problem-solving. In SG analytics studies, learning processes are tracked using diverse techniques to support the personalization of instruction. However, it is a challenge to find potential meanings of each parameter of the tracking logs and define an appropriate indicator for a user’s behavior. Game tracking logs often only provide limited information regardless of a game context. Therefore, res [...]Mots-clés : Serious games analytics, Visualization, Learning path
Competitive game environment and its application: Case study with focus on tournament entertainment (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract This study explores a novel way for analyzing tournament structures. Our goal is to find the best suitable tournament under considered purposes. Aside from the number of matches, we address on two other important aspects: competitiveness development and ranking precision. Competitiveness development emphasizes the importance participants’ motivation in every match while keeping the matches exciting throughout the tournament. Ranking precision reflects the convincement of tou [...]Between Game and Reality: Using Serious Games to Analyze Complex Interaction Processes in Air Traffic Management (Diffusion de nos travaux)
AbstractIn 2010 the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull paralyzed a large part of the European air traffic. Results were massive restrictions in the European and intercontinental air traffic. Even after canceling the aircraft grounding, airport operators, airlines, air traffic controllers, and ground handlers had to deal with the situation that the aircraft and crews were not in the places where they should have been for the correct execution of the flight plan. To [...]Mots-clés : Air traffic management, Decision-making, Serious games
Voluntary Play in Serious Games (Diffusion de nos travaux)
AbstractVoluntariness is an important feature of games. Serious game designers intend to generate engaging gameplay, which implies that voluntary play should be equally important for serious games as for entertainment games. This paper describes the outcome of a study on the impact of voluntariness on learning in a serious game. The results of 19 participants, randomly assigned to voluntary and mandatory gameplay, are analyzed to identify possible differences. The findings of this study suggest [...]Mots-clés : Serious games, Effectiveness, Learning effect, Freedom of choice
Game Learning Analytics: Learning Analytics for Serious Games (Diffusion de nos travaux)
AbstractVideo games have become one of the largest entertainment industries, and their power to capture the attention of players worldwide soon prompted the idea of using games to improve education. However, these educational games, commonly referred to as serious games, face different challenges when brought into the classroom, ranging from pragmatic issues (e.g., a high development cost) to deeper educational issues, including a lack of understanding of how the students interact with the games [...]Mots-clés : Serious games, Game learning analytics, Learning analytics, Game analytics, Educational standards
Acceptance of Serious Games in Psychotherapy: An Inquiry into the Stance of Therapists and Patients (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Background: Serious games are computer or video games that contain elements that are specifically designed for the purpose of education or training. Serious games are increasingly being used within healthcare, but their introduction into and application in psychotherapeutic settings as an e-mental health treatment modality raises questions for both patients and therapists. Current research demonstrates the potential role and effectiveness of serious games within a psychotherapeutic context. [...]Mots-clés : e-mental health, patients' and therapists' viewpoint, psychotherapy, serious games
A Serious Game to make people aware of behavioral symptoms in Tourette syndrome (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Serious games have become a motivational engine to get knowledge, skills and fun at the same time. First of all, the player has to feel that he is play-ing a game where the learning is only a consequence of the playing actions and it is essential to use reliable sources of information to design them in order to obtain the desired results. In this paper, we propose the design and development of a serious game as learning tool and generator of interest about Tourette syndrome in a web-based enviro [...]Mots-clés : Attitudinal change, Computer-based training, Empathy, Entertainment, Game-based learning, Instructional technology
Viable Health Games: Elements for Success (Diffusion de nos travaux)
The main purpose of this study is to identify the elements of children's health games that have a positive impact on children’s health. The investigation is done by evaluating previous health game studies concentrating on children and five health affairs (such as asthma, cancer, diabetes, nutrition and obesity). In order to do so, firstly the topic of children’s health games is explained through its roots, as it is an interdisciplinary topic pertinent with many other fields. For [...]Mots-clés : health games, Children