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Highlights in the Literature Availablein Serious Games for Intellectual Disabilities (Diffusion de nos travaux)

This review examines the literature on Serious Games used as learning tools for people with intellectual disabilities. Although intellectual disabilities are a very broad field where each individual has very specific characteristics, it would be beneficial to have general evidence-based recommendations about how to design videogames adapted to their cognitive requirements. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to identify and review the available literature on Serious Games for intellectual disabil [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Game, Intellectual disabilities, Videogames, Health game

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Serious game framework confronted with specificities of industrial training: application to steel industry (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Serious games are growing more and more in the context of lifelong training and initial education. They cover several areas (human science, engineering science, life science, ...) that are used for industrial or academic purposes. However, some fields induce specific issues. Thus, in th [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Games, Formatting, Virtual Reality, Interaction

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Challenges of Business Simulation Games?A New Approach of Teaching Business (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract: Serious games are part of the new emerging world of education environment that is based on sophisticated technology with elements of entertainment. They have been seen as good supplements for supporting the learning processes due to their capability to increase visualisations and challenge the student creativity. They have the potential to significantly improve training and education activities and initiatives. As a part of serious computer games, business simulation games support [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Games, Business Simulation Games, e-learning, Problem-Based Learning, Education

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Design and Development of Effective and Customizable Educational Business Games (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Serious Games are becoming increasingly popular. In all domains they are used to transfer content to players by mixing learning with pleasure in order to make teaching more easy and fun. However many of them are designed in an ad-hoc way without structure. Several research efforts have been conducted to tackle this deficiency and to improve the design of these games. Despite the vast literature, the domain is still in its infancy and scattered. Serious games offer great opportunities for le [...]

Mots-clés : Serious games, Educational Business Game, Educational Game Design Framework, Educational Game Design Checklist, Game evaluation

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The Game Genre Map: A Revised Game Classification (Diffusion de nos travaux)

The existing common video game genres lack clarity as well as consistency and thus cannot serve as a solid reference to inform the research on digital educational games (DEG), which are increasingly used as learning tools. To address this basic issue of game classification, we have developed a web-based survey to collect data on how people play and perceive video games that they know well. The survey is grounded in our Game Elements-Attributes Model (GEAM). 321 valid responses were analysed usin [...]

Mots-clés : digital educational games (DEG), Jeux numériques éducatifs, Jeux éducatifs, Genre, Jeux vidéo, Apprentissage, Classification, Education

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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

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A Serious Game to make people aware of behavioral symptoms in Tourette syndrome (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Serious games have become a motivational engine to get knowledge, skills and fun at the same time. First of all, the player has to feel that he is play-ing a game where the learning is only a consequence of the playing actions and it is essential to use reliable sources of information to design them in order to obtain the desired results. In this paper, we propose the design and development of a serious game as learning tool and generator of interest about Tourette syndrome in a web-based enviro [...]

Mots-clés : Attitudinal change, Computer-based training, Empathy, Entertainment, Game-based learning, Instructional technology

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A Virtual Laboratory An immersive VR experience to spread ancient libraries heritage (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract:This paper presents the evolving embodiments of “A Virtual Laboratory”, a VR-based videogame simulating an experiment of medical distillation in a medieval alchemy lab. Players are encouraged to acquire the knowledge needed to master the operations to be performed by consulting the digital representation of an ancient treatise on distillation hosted at the Gunnerus Library of Trondheim, The game is part of a larger project called MUBIL aimed at disseminating the knowled [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Games, Library, Virtual Environment, Immersion, Interaction, Learning

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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

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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

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