Introduction The value of video games for learning is a controversial issue that has fueled numerous investigations since the first electronic games captivated generations of young people and children in the 80s (and Méndiz De Aguilera, 2004). While, initially, there were suspicions to believe that video games could be useful in education and training field currently, it is a widely shared by both researchers concept, for educators (Del Moral, 2010; Gros, 2009, Gros, 2000 Etxeberr&i
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Mots-clés : Jeux vidéo, Valeur ajoutée, Apprentissages
a b s t r a c t Immersive technologies such as virtual environments and augmented reality have a clear potential to support the experiencing of cultural heritage by the large public, complementing the current tools and practices based on tangible goods such as museums, exhibitions, books and visual content. Serious games – videogames designed for educational objectives – appear as a new tool to learn cultural content in an engaging way. In this paper, we will provide an extensiv
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Mots-clés : Héritage culturel (Cultural heritage), Serious Game
Depuis le début des années 2000, les serious games deviennent de plus en plus populaires dans les grandes entreprises françaises, en particulier auprès des managers des ressources humaines qui les utilisent pour recruter, intégrer, former, accompagner, valoriser, communiquer et sensibiliser. Pourtant, peu de travaux de recherche leurs sont consacrés dans la littérature académique en sciences de gestion. L’objectif de cet art
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Mots-clés : Serious games, Human resources, Mapping, Uses, Large companies
Inland transport is a crucial component for the gateway ports such as Rotterdam. There are different parties involved in the inland transport: forwarders, shipping line agents, shipping lines, sea terminals, inland carriers, etc. To operate effectively and efficiently cooperation and collaboration is required between all involved parties. The claim of this project is that the root of several problems occurring in the container flow can be explained by the low level of Shared Situational Awarenes
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Abstract: Portugal is at hand with an unprecedented crisis with the government having to take policies, some of them tough measures. Due to the characteristics of some measures and the unaccomplishment of others, people fail to comprehend them and do not believe in its execution. This work tries to bring greater clarity to the situation of the Portuguese economy, through a serious game. The use of serious games in contexts of awareness is increasing, according to which the learning ability
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Mots-clés : serious games, learning, knowledge, awareness, population, economics, finances, budget
Research on digital game-based learning indicates that this learning method can be - under certain conditions - more efficient than other traditional teaching methods, such as textbooks, or web-based learning. Without additional support learning from games may or may not occur, this is why instructional support should be used in educational settings. The present study focuses on testing with feedback as a type of instructional support with great promise. Testing is widely used in almost all clas
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Mots-clés : Digital game-based learning, Learning from games, Testing, Feedback
Ce livre vise à mettre en avant le potentiel des jeux vidéo, dans leur ensemble, pour l'apprentissage scolaire. Les 250 pages de l'ouvrage sont divisées en 10 chapitres autonomes, qui abordent chacun une question spécifique. Par exemple, un chapitre s'appuie sur la saga Final Fantasy pour évoquer la dimension artistique du jeu vidéo, tandis qu'un autre présente une expérimentation menée en classe avec les jeux et les films Harry Pott
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Mots-clés : education, jeu video, classe, theorie
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 leads to inappropriate behavior derived from their inability to interact adequately with other people. Those deficits seem to be rather permanent in individuals with aut
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Mots-clés : Autism, Facial emotion recognition, Gestures, Kinect, NUI
CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL) on Learning Analytics in Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments and CoursesThere has been much interest of late in ‘big data’ and the role it can play in decision making in diverse areas of business, science and entertainment. By employing a combination of modern artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics techniques, extremely large and complex data sets can be ‘mined&
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Mots-clés : appel à communication, revue
Abstract Serious games have been receiving a lot of interest in the recent years and have been increasingly used for educational, military and business purposes. One of the positive sides of serious games is the fact of being tools that allow the creation of an environment where players are immersed in a playful activity, and are much more receptive to knowledge acquisition. Through serious games players are more likely to retain information for a longer period of time. The terrain instabil
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