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Modelling with stakeholders - Next generation (Diffusion de nos travaux)
This paper updates and builds on ‘Modelling with Stakeholders’ Voinov and Bousquet, 2010 which demonstrated the importance of, and demand for, stakeholder participation in resource and environmental modelling. This position paper returns to the concepts of that publication and reviews the progress made since 2010. A new development is the wide introduction and acceptance of social media and web applications, which dramatically changes the context and scale of stakeholder interactions [...]Mots-clés : Citizen science, Social media, Serious games, Crowdsourcing, Biases, Uncertainty
Gamification and the Psychology of Game Design in Transforming Mental Health Care (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Researchers and health professionals have long been curious about the potential of electronic games for purposes beyond entertainment. This topic is of particular importance given the rapid growth of the game industry, whose products are enjoyed by over 1.5 billion people worldwide (EEDAR, 2015), many of them on mobile devices. As the number of smartphone users continues to grow, with conservative estimates projecting a rise from 2 billion worldwide at the end of 2015 to 6.1 billion in 2020 (Eri [...]Gaming Preferences, Motivations, and Experiences of Pharmacy Students in Asia (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Objective: Serious games are becoming popular in various healthcare domains. However, they should be designed to cater toward learners' perspectives, needs, and specifications in order to be used to their full potential in education. This study investigated the gaming experiences, motivations, and preferences of pharmacy students.Materials and Methods: An anonymous self-administered survey obtained participant demographics, gaming experiences (enjoyment level of different game genres, [...]The affiliation between student achievement and elements of gamification in learning science (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract:Gamification is a new form of approach that is being looked into in the world of education. With its game elements that relates to the needs of the current generation of users whose life is entangled in the world of technology. Yet the use of technology is not a one size fits all deal; thus it is important to identify how certain gamification elements influences students. This is vital point that needs to be understood before endeavouring further into the infusion of gamification in edu [...]Mots-clés : secondary school, student achievement, gamification element, science learning
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
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
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 [...]De lo virtual a lo físico: expandiendo las fronteras entre arte y vida a través de los juegos digitales emersivos (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Resumen de la tesis Los juegos digitales tienen la capacidad de introducir al sujeto, de fuera hacia dentro, en un espacio de significación consensuado por los jugadores. Sin embargo, también tienen un gran potencial para hacer emerger el contenido del juego a la vida del sujeto, de dentro hacia fuera. Igualmente, el arte crea un espacio de significación consensuado que, además de permitir la inmersión, admite la emersión del contenido del arte a la [...]Mots-clés : Art, Jeux vidéo, Immersion, serious game, Gamification
A Gamification Approach to Getting Students Engaged in Academic Study (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract Serious games and gamification are emerging in many areas of society. In addition to an effective way of entertainment, games can be adopted as a persuading tool to guide person to achieve specific goal, citing their ultimate attraction. In this paper, we are interested in the mechanism and application of gamification in the field of academic education. Games feature a potential to promote students to learn in a spontaneous and effective manner, since the challenge and fun in games [...]Mots-clés : Academic education, Gamification, Digital circuit course, Serious games
Entertaining the similarities and distinctions between serious games and virtual heritage projects (Diffusion de nos travaux)
Abstract This article summarizes past definitions of entertainment, serious games and virtual heritage in order to discuss whether virtual heritage has particular problems not directly addressed by conventional serious games. For virtual heritage, typical game-style entertainment poses particular ethical problems, especially around the simulation of historic violence and the possible trivialization of culturally sensitive and significant material. While virtual heritage can be considered to [...]Mots-clés : Entertainment, Virtual heritage, Authenticity, Violence, Interaction design