Abstract:A critical incident at any institution may include bomb threats, assault, bio-hazardous spills, civil disobedience, electrical outage, fire or explosion, gas leak, natural disasters, infectious diseases, and terrorist threats. Although many employees know of this type of situation, most are not properly trained with respect to how to react when a critical incident occurs, nor do they understand lockdown procedures. Serious games refer to video games that are used for training, advertisi
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In this paper, we present a new model to analyse therapeutic games. The goal of the model is to describe and analyse the relations between the three aspects of a therapeutic game: the player, the game, and the therapy. The model is intended to game designers. It is a tool to improve the communication between health experts and game designers, and to evaluate the game design coherency of therapeutic games. It also helps to analyse existing games to discover relevant features. The model is built w
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Mots-clés : Video games, Evaluation, Analysis, Model, Game design, Serious games, Therapeutic
This study examines the various market segments of Serious Gaming based on detailed case studies and a systematic presentation of the corresponding technologies, practices and know-how, while emphasising on the key stages of the design, development and dissemination phases. It also provides technology and business prospects for each market segment. Serious Gaming (SG) is at the crossroads of several disciplines: e-learning, computing, engineering,
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Study, Health, Defence, Education, Market, Evolution, Training
AbstractResearch in game-based learning environments aims to recognise and show emotion. This chapter describes the main approaches and challenges involved in achieving these goals. In addition, we propose an emotional student model that can reason about students’ emotions using observable behaviour and responses to questions. Our model uses Control-Value Theory (Pekrun et al., The control value theory of achievement emotions. An integrative approach to emotions in education. In: Schutz, P
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Mots-clés : Computer Science, Computers and Education
Etude de l’impact de communications électroniques basées sur le Serious game 3ème approche. Création d’un site 2.0 de type Play & Rate dédié aux Serious games Cette 3ème approche vise à étudier plus en détail la nature de l’impactsuscité par les Serious games sur les joueurs. Pour mener cette étude,nous développons un site Internet de type 2.0 permettant aux Internautesde
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Mots-clés : Serious games, Perception, Impact, Web 2.0, Evaluation
Abstract: The impact games are known to have on commitment is pushing more and more companies to use training programmes that incorporate games, including Learning Role-Play Games. This article presents the methodology (ScenLRPG) and formalism we have defined to support instructional designers in the design of such programmes. The ScenLRPG methodology is based on two main principles: the first one is to make designers integrate the use of game principles into their reflection; the second one is
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Mots-clés : Role-play game, Design support, Learning-scenario design, Formalism, Commitment
Abstract The global economic crisis that is felt is leading to the emergence of a need to increase business competitiveness, by improving the performance of its employees. In this sense, Lean Manufacturing is an area that deserves the attention of employers and their employees, since its main objectives are to increase productivity, reduce waste and optimize available resources. A Lean tool that deserves special attention is the 5S Method, which can improve productivity, by increasing the
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Learning, knowledge, Evaluation
Ce livre présente une sélection subjective de 1001 jeux vidéo intéressants ou importants, issus de toutes les époques de l'histoire du jeu vidéo. Chaque jeu est présenté par un petit texte et accompagné d'une ou plusieurs captures d'écran. Traduction française d'un ouvrage originellement anglophone publié en 2010 sous le titre "1001 video games you must play before you die". Cette version originelle a c
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Mots-clés : encyclopédie, histoire
De Angry Birds à Mécanika : serious game et serious gaming 28 septembre 2011 Thomas Constant Deux jeux, l’un dit « sérieux », l’autre devenu « social » en entrant sur la réseau Google + ; deux jeux utilisés pour l’apprentissage de la physique. Le premier se nommeMécanika, il va sortir dans quelques jours et a
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Serious Gaming, Jeux sérieux, Détournement, Usages
Depuis l’avènement des premiers serious game expérimentaux dans les années 1980, le domaine n’a cessé de se développer et est désormais exploité par un large panel d’acteurs, des pédagogues aux publicitaires en passant par les industriels et les lobbyistes. Ce marché mondial des serious game,encore marginal au début des années 2
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