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GAMES IN FORMAL EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS: Obstacles for the development and use of learning games (Diffusion de nos travaux)
ABSTRACT From the perspective of educators, games are viewed as a medium in which the younger generation both thrive and excel. Students navigate game environments with ease and regularly solve problems, engage in advanced collaborative efforts, and communicate complex concepts and strategies to one another during their private gaming sessions at home. Games invite the player to form an understanding of intricate systems and mechanics based on participation and experimentation rather than m [...]Mots-clés : Education, Serious Game
Playing for impact : the design of civic games for community engagement and social action / Designing large-scale games for community engagement (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract:In light of calls that civic participation is declining, efforts are underway to replace outdated, unproductive forms of citizenship. With the majority of Americans now connected to the Internet, community leaders see the digital realm as the new frontier for promoting engagement. Increasingly, digital games are being designed for the express purpose of promoting community engagement and social action. My thesis examines this emerging practice of civic game design. Within this thesis, I [...]Digital Humanities: Current Perspective, Practices, and Research (Diffusion de nos travaux)
The field of Digital Humanities is becoming more exciting as the number of low-cost or free mobile and desktop applications flood the market allowing users to accomplish tasks that only a few years ago were either not possible or required complicated coding or high-end ... References (1): Djaouti, D., Alvarez, J., Jessel, J.-P., & Rampnoux, O. (2011). Origins of serious games. In M. Ma, A. Oikonomou & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Serious games and edutainment applications [...]Mots-clés : Serious Game, Retro Serious game
Facial expression recognition teaching to preschoolers with autism: a natural user interface approach (Diffusion de nos travaux)
The recognition of facial expressions is important for the perception of emotions. Understanding emotions is essential in human communication and social interaction. Children with autism have been reported to exhibit deficits in the recognition of affective expressions. Their difficulties in understanding and expressing emotions lead to inappropriate behavior derived from their inability to interact adequately with other people. Those deficits seem to be rather permanent in individuals with auti [...]Serious games for disseminating the knowledge of ancient manuscripts: a case study (Diffusion de nos travaux)
In this paper we present a Digital Serious Game set in a medieval alchemical laboratory, aimed at disseminating the ancient knowledge of medicine distillation contained in the famous Adam Lonicer's Kreuterbuch (1569) treatise. The application is based on interactive Virtual Environments and available on multiple visualization technologies, ranging from simple touch-based tablet up to immersive environments such as CAVEs or Oculus Rift. The game comes as the latest development level o [...]Mots-clés : Libraries Archives, Virtual Environment, Immersion, Interaction, Learning, Digital Serious Games
Serious game et perception du réel : lecture documentarisante et potentiel cognitif (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Résumé : Le serious game d'apprentissage utilisé dans le monde professionnel se doit de lier la pratique du jeu à la pratique métier. Cet enjeu concerne les concepteurs, ainsi que les responsables de formation ou responsables des ressources humaines, tous intéressés par la transmission ou l'évaluation des compétences. Mais alors que les serious games simulant des relations interpersonnelles convoquent les notions de fictio [...]Mots-clés : Mise en abyme, Métalepse, Semio-pragmatique, Jeux sérieux, Documentaire, Apprentissage
Aesthetic experience and the interface in digital games The production of an edutainment game - Moon (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract In this research, we present one of the principal aspects of games. The interfaces or better knew by the acronym HUD’s (Heads-Up Display). We are going to show the succinct evolution in the history of games suffered by them as well as the advance in their production in order to amplify or affect positive the immersion in digital games. We emphasize forms and ways of developing what we consider an intelligent interface (Boschetti, 2001), in order to help the INDIE developers w [...]Mots-clés : Interface, Aesthetic experience, Edutainment game
Towards a collaborative tourist system using serious games (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract Nowadays, traveling is becoming increasingly easier. New and cheaper means of communication make tourism available for a larger number of people. Withal, smartphones are trending and they are replacing the common cellphone at a fast rate. It’s safe to assume that, in a near future, every single person will be able to afford a mobile device of this kind, including tourists. Many applications exist for mobile devices, specifically for smartphones, in order to help tourists in t [...]Mots-clés : Serious Game, Tourisme
Gamifying an Oil-Gas-Water Separation Process in a Process Control System to Improve Operators' Motivation, Skills, and Process Understanding (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract Serious games and its related fields have lately received a lot of interest due to their potential for training and education. Serious games can be defined as (digital) games that are used for reasons other than entertainment. Gamification can be related to serious games and can be defined as the process of game-thinking and game mechanics to engage users and solve problems. The initiator of this project was ABB. ABB delivers a process control system used to control the processes o [...]Mots-clés : Gamification, Serious games, Process control system, Oil and gas separation, Simulator