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Towards Virtual Rehabilitation: Hand Gesture Controlled Games to Improve Cognitive and Motor Skills of Children with Special Needs (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract  Recent advancement of the technology on hand gesture tracking devices provided new opportunities for Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Although great progress has been made by leveraging devices like Leap Motion, most of the focus is on the entertainment domain. This research project focuses towards virtual rehabilitation using serious games, by improving the cognitive and motor skills of the children with special needs. Proposed hypothesis included the implementation of 3D mouse [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Game

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Serious games: history and future (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract After the turn of the century, video games have risen up to the level of the largest mainstream entertainment mediums, now even challenging the movie industry in size. Even though the area occupied by serious games in this market has only just recently really started growing, with serious games still being only a relatively small portion of the video games market, has the idea of using games as tools for education and training been the target of continuous interest for at least the [...]

Mots-clés : Video games, Serious games, Simulations, Simulate, Educational games, Edutainment, Health games, War games

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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

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Interactive Digital Mobile Gaming as a Strategic Tool in the Fight against Childhood Obesity (Diffusion de nos travaux)

The introduction of new technologies into children's daily routines is in many cases associated with negative health impacts. However, technology may also be used to promote healthy practices by way of so-called serious games. Several studies have confirmed that the use of such tools can result in significant health gains, the adoption of healthy eating habits, the practice of an active lifestyle, increased energy expenditure and decreased adiposity. In this context, the authors report a case st [...]

Mots-clés : Obésité (Obesity), Serious Game, Game, Health game, Santé

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Digital Educational Games: Methodologies for Evaluating the Impact of Game Type (Diffusion de nos travaux)

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 [...]

Mots-clés : digital educational games (DEG), Game Elements-Attributes Model (GEAM), Jeux vidéo, Classification

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Military and Defence Applications (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractVirtual environments are synthetic computer simulations that represent activities at a high degree of realism, and which are presented to a user in such a way that s/he temporarily suspends belief and accepts them as real environments (see Witmer & Singer, 1998). Virtual Environments (VEs) allow people to communicate as avatars, which are digital visual projections that represent a synthetic reality (Fox & Ahn, 2013), so that individuals can change aspects of their identity, [...]

Mots-clés : Défense, Serious Game

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Analysis of serious games based on pedagogical features and proposal of civil defence training game (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractThis paper focuses on the analysis of serious games. We analysed and evaluated serious games, and particularly their training aspect, based on the classification method of Djaouti et al. (2011b). Further, we evaluated existing training games and based on the results developed a civil defence training game for Korea. The game has been designed to train professional civil defence personnel based on pedagogical features of serious games for training. This research can serve as the groundwor [...]

Mots-clés : Serious games, Pedagogical features, Civil defence training, Training games, Game-based training, Safety education

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Digital Game Features and Play Contexts (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Digital games are everywhere. Once just a fixture in family living rooms, they're now being played in almost every setting imaginable—in schools, at the workplace, restaurants, in the backseats of cars, and on subway platforms—and by individuals of all ages, from ... References (1) : Djaouti, D., Alvarez, J., Jessel, J., Rampnoux, O., Origins of Serious Games. In Ma, M., Oikonomou, A., Jain, L. (eds.), Serious Games and Edutainment Applications. Springer-Verl [...]

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A Tale of Two Cities: A Multimodal Analysis of the Figurative Expressions about City in Picture Books (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Realizing the significant role that city plays in the development of human civilization, the influence it brings to people’s life in the modern society, as well as its absence in fields other than architecture, urban design, and urban planning, this research aims to study the multimodal metaphorical manifestations of civic imagery in picture books from a cognitive linguistic point of view. Relying on the Visual-Verbal Multimodal Metaphor Identification Procedure (VVMMIP) constructed by us [...]

Mots-clés : Multimodal metaphor, Metonymy, City, Picture books, Visual-Verbal Multimodal Metaphor Identification P, Magic surrealism, Multimodal Metaphorical Scenario Chain Reaction

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Introduction au numéro spécial « Évaluation dans les jeux sérieux » (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Introduction au numéro spécial « Évaluation dans les jeux sérieux » Editorial Pierre-André CARON (Université Lille 1, CIREL), Sébastien GEORGE (Université du Maine, LIUM), Julian ALVAREZ (Université Lille 1, CIREL) 1. Introduction et contexte du numéro spécialDepuis 2002, les jeux sérieux suscitent un engouement croissant par les [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Game, Jeux Sérieux, Evaluation

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