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BrainPlay: Serious Game, Serious Learning? (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract: Games are increasingly being used in educational contexts. The view of some game educationists is that games are able to effectively fulfil the requirements of a constructivist learning pedagogy. It is suggested, for example, that games are useful at representing complexity and often possess mechanisms that make learning more effective through mimicking behaviours required for study. This includes such elements as a call to focus, increasing levels of difficulty of skill, repetit [...]Mots-clés : Game-based learning, Neuroscience, How to learn, Primary school
A dynamic web-based 3D virtual museum framework based on open data (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract:Continuous developments in the web and computer technologies along with an increasing availability of game engines contribute to an expansion of techniques that bridge culture and education with gaming. In addition, open linked data technologies pave the way towards the semantic web of the future by exploiting the abundance in data availability. In this work we present an innovative and content-dynamic web-based framework, which relies and exploits the rich content of distributed web cu [...]Mots-clés : Games, Three-dimensional displays, Engines, Cultural differences, Buildings, Virtual environments, Navigation
The 'Synthesis' Virtual Museum?an open virtual exhibition creation tool (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract The continuous development of web services and computer infrastructures complemented by the increasing availability of game development software engines, contribute to an on-going expansion in the release of serious games (SG) in diverse areas, ranging from entertainment, cultural heritage (CH), education, artificial intelligence (AI), sociology, military to health systems [1]. In this sense SGs can be thought of as bridging culture and education with gaming. By utilizing contempo [...]Mots-clés : Cultural heritage, Serious Game
Lewispace: an educational puzzle game with a multimodal machine learning environment (Diffusion de nos travaux)
In this paper, we will present an educational game that we developed in order to teach a chemistry lesson, namely drawing a Lewis diagram. We also conducted an experiment to gather data about the cognitive and emotional states of the learners as well as their behaviour through out our game by using three types of sensors (electroencephalography,eye t [...]Mots-clés : Educational game, Electroencephalogram, Eyetracking, Facial ex-pression recognition, Logistic regression model
Serious Games opportunities for the primary education curriculum in Quebec (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Curriculum integration is one of the main factors in the teachers’ decision-making process when deciding to use games in formal educational contexts. Based on this observation, we aim to provide primary education teachers with a selection of (serious) games in each of the main areas of the primary education curriculum in Quebec. The taxonomy of the games selected includes Serious Games (SG), designed for educational purposes from the start, but also repurposed games, which, despite not hav [...]Mots-clés : Serious Game, Education
An activity theory-based model for serious games analysis and conceptual design (Diffusion de nos travaux)
There are currently a number of models, frameworks and methodologies for serious games analysis and design that provide useful interpretations of the possibilities and limitations offered by serious games. However, these tools focus mostly on high-level aspects and requirements and do not help understand how such high-level requirements can be concretely satisfied. In this paper, we present a conceptual model, called Activity Theory-based Model of Serious Games (ATMSG), that aims to fill this ga [...]Mots-clés : Serious games, Educational serious games, Serious games analysis, Serious games design, Activity theory
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
Learning through playing Virtual Age: Exploring the interactions among student concept learning, gaming performance, in-game behaviors, and the use of (Diffusion de nos travaux)
AbstractVideo games possess many unique features that facilitate learning. Meanwhile, teaching about evolution is never an easy task due to the existence of some barriers to its learning.Virtual Age, therefore, has been developed in an attempt to harness the power of gaming to increase student understanding of biological evolution. The aim of this study was to examine whether Virtual Age is effective for learning about evolution and to further explore the interplay of student concept l [...]Mots-clés : Secondary education, Applications in subject areas, Interactive learning environments, Teaching/learning strategies, Virtual reality
UNPACKING DIGITAL GAMEBASED LEARNING The complexities of developing and using educational games (Diffusion de nos travaux)
ABSTRACT Digital game-based learning has traditionally been examined from an ‘artefact-centric’ perspective that focuses on understanding how game design and principles of learning are, or can be, intertwined. These types of examinations have resulted in many descriptions of games’ educational potential, which has subsequently led to many types of arguments for why games should be used more extensively in formal education. However, comparatively little research has been do [...]Mots-clés : Digital game-based learning, Serious Game
A renewed approach to serious games for cyber security (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract:We are living in a world which is continually evolving and where modern conflicts have moved to the cyber domain. In its 2010 Strategic Concept, NATO affirmed its engagement to reinforce the defence and deterrence of its state members. In this light, it has been suggested that the gamification of training and education for cyber security will be beneficial. Although serious games have demonstrated pedagogic effectiveness in this field, they have only been used in a limited number of con [...]Mots-clés : serious games, framework, cyber security