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A Brief History of Serious Games (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractSerious Games are now an established field of study. In this field most would attribute the rise of Serious Games to Clark C Abt’s creation of the term in 1970, or indeed Ben Sawyer’s popularization of it in 2002. However, considering the rich history of purposing non-digital games, itself preceded by discussions of purposing play that are traceable to the work of Plato, it can be said that Serious Games is a contemporary manifestation of centuries old theories and practices. [...]

Mots-clés : Serious games, Play, Simulation-based learning, Game-based learning, Games for social change, Games for health, Playful learning

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The Experimental Method as an Evaluation Tool in Serious Games Research and Development (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractThis chapter aims to provide the reader with basic knowledge about the experiment as a general method that can be applied towards serious games research and evaluation. It explains the main terms and rules of the experimental design, as well as points out the main risks and difficulties to avoid. The chapter also explains the differences in possible conclusions between true experiments, quasi-experiments, and correlational studies. References (1): Djaouti, D., Alvarez, J., Jess [...]

Mots-clés : Experiment, Experimental design, Variables, Validity, Biases, Samples, Quasi-experiment, Correlational study

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Serious Game to Enhance and Promote Youth Entrepreneurship (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractEntrepreneurship constitutes a key driver providing jobs and wealth creation. Besides, promoting entrepreneurship can play significant role to ensure the prosperity of a society. In this respect our article aims to foster entrepreneurship education, through focusing on the effectiveness of serious games as educational tools, whose goal supporting young people to actively being entrepreneurs. In this paper, we unveil the entrepreneurial context notably at the national level, where we high [...]

Mots-clés : Entrepreneurial learning, Learning process, Serious games, Entrepreneurship education

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SUCCESS FACTORS IN FINNISH SERIOUS GAMES (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Serious games (SG) are computer-and video games with a primary focus other than entertainment. This is, they are made to educate, teach, inform and promote ideas. The current research focused on SGs' success factors and their emergence in SGs published in Finland in 2015. The research approach was qualitative and the research method was theory-based content analysis. First, the concepts of SG, SG design methodology and learning were discussed based on existing knowledge. Success factor related k [...]

Mots-clés : Serious game, Success factor, Gaming experience, Content implementation, Implementation process, Analysis framework

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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

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Game Dimensions and Pedagogical Dimension in Serious Games (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractDesigning serious games is a complex process because finding the right balance between the ‘serious' and the ‘game' dimensions is vital, as pointed out in some meta-analyses (Wouters, et al. 2013). If educational content prevails over the entertainment element, users' motivation may decrease and this can have a negative impact on the effectiveness of learning. On the other hand, if entertainment predominates over content, this can also limit learning opportunities. Another ma [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Game, Design, Education, Jeux numériques, Models

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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

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Supporting Collaborative Serious Game Studies Online (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractWhile a lot of papers have argued for the educational potential of serious games, the field is still young and methods and tools are needed in order to support effective and efficient design. The SG Studies Database is an instrument devised to allow sharing structured information about SGs. This information can be used by scholars and practitioners also to perform comparative analysis and identify components and modules that could be used in different games. The SG Studies database, whic [...]

Mots-clés : Personal Computing, Computers and Education, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Software Engineering

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Gamification as a Key Enabling Technology for Image Sensing and Content Tagging (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractThe advent of mobile phone with a multi-megapixel camera and autouploaders has democratised photography. Taking pictures and acquiring annotations is no longer an expensive task as it used to be. Yet performing these tasks in a systematically way is still very cumbersome for most users. In this paper, we outline two game mechanics that can be exploited for the purpose of large-scale image sensing and content annotation. Our first mechanic allows for better control over when, how and wher [...]

Mots-clés : game mechanics, photography

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Serious Gaming, Serious Modding et Serious Diverting? Etes-vous sérieux ?! (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Dans la recherche francophone, l'expression « serious gaming » est utilisée en anglais pour désigner la pratique du détournement de jeux vidéo visant trois nouvelles finalités fonctionnelles : la diffusion de message(s), la formation et la collecte de données. Les « serious games » se distinguent ainsi du « serious gaming » : si le résultat final peut sembler similaire (combiner des jeux à des fins &eacut [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Game, Serious Modding, Serious Diverting, Serious Gaming

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