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Do students trained using serious games become better sales representatives? an experiment to study the performance of academic serious games (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract  This paper analyzes the potential of serious games for professional and pedagogical purposes and learning. To do this, the authors have questioned the efficiency of these games. They present an experiment conducted with 66 students trained in sales that compares a group of players with a group of non-players. The game’s impact on skills was studied from two angles: first from a theoretical point of view (based on the marks obtained in tests), and second from a practical poin [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Games, ICT efficiency, Experiment

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A serious game based method for business process management (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract:Nowadays, organizations have to be flexible enough to allow adjustments to new circumstances and to be able to align their processes in a short time according to the users requirements, respecting environmental constraints and technological evolution. The challenges are then to improve process efficiency and quality, to introduce a continuous process evolution and to improve the stakeholder's satisfaction. This article proposes a Serious Game-based Method for Business Process Management [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Game, Business Process, Modeling, Management, Participative process, Process improvement, BPM

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A description grid to support the design of learning role-play games (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractTo strengthen the motivation of learners, the professional training sector is focusing more and more on game-based learning. In this context, the authors have become interested in the design of Learning Role-Play Game (LRPG) scenarios. The aim of this article is to improve the designers’ confidence in the validity of the game-based learning programs developed by providing a methodology and tools to support their choices. The first stage of this work is the creation of a grid to des [...]

Mots-clés : Computer-supported design, Description grid, Game-based learning, Learning scenarios, Professional training, Role-play

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Through a Chilly Land between First-Person Shoot-Em-Up and Tourist Blockbuster (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract:  The new media have brought with them new forms of engagement with history. Jáchym Topol’s most recent novel, which plays with a grotesque war of memorial strategies in the Czech Republic and Belarus, reacts to this challenge with intermedial references, including structural imitation and a computer game. This article describes the textual means of creating an immersive experience that include literary modelling of the narrative strategies on the first-person shooter [...]

Mots-clés : Transmediality, Fictional immersion, Computer gaming, Culture of memory, Collective memory, Representation of history, Jáchym Topol, Novel

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CROSSROAD project (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Disclaimer:  The CROSSROAD project is co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. This document reflects only authors’ views. EC is not liable for any use that may be done of the information contained therein. Executive summary  This document is the final version of the Research Roadmap on Governance and Policy Modelling, which lists and describes research themes to be supported by future public funding through Science & Technological Roadmapp [...]

Mots-clés : Roadmap, Grand Challenges, Research Challenges, Model-based Collaborative Governance, Data powered collective intelligence and action, Government Service Utility

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On structure of games (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Games, MMOG-s (Massively Multiplayer On-Line Games), on-line social sites etc have become a major cultural and economic force. The main distinguishing features and attraction of these applications is their interactivity and emergent quality – participants constantly change the state of affairs with their actions. Gameplay, the resulting dynamic flow of events, is fascinating: this is like execution of an algorithm, where elementary actions are defined by game rules, but the logic, the flow [...]

Mots-clés : Games, MMOG-s (Massively Multiplayer On-Line Games), On-line social , Structure, Gameplay

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Can "Gaming 2.0" Help Design "Serious Games"? A Comparative Study (Diffusion de nos travaux)

The "Serious Games" field raises a specific need. People without professional game design skills, such as teachers, corporate trainers, therapists and advertising professionals, request tools that could allow them to create or modify such games. This article will analyze "Gaming 2.0" examples in order to identify tools that could help fulfill this need. Indeed, "Gaming 2.0" is a way for players to create videogame content without skills from the entertainment videog [...]

Mots-clés : gaming 2.0, serious games, game design, level design, player-generated content

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Serious gaming: From learning experience towards User Experience (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract:A number of existing innovation paradigms and design approaches such as Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003), User Experience (Hassenzahl & Tractinsky, 2006) and User Centred Design (Von Hippel, 2005), as well as User Centred Open Innovation Ecosystem (Pallot, 2009a), are promoting distributed collaboration among organisations and user communities. However, project stakeholders are mainly trained for improving their individual skills through learning experience (i.e. practical exercis [...]

Mots-clés : Experiential Service Platform, Serious Game, Learning Experience, User Experience, Living Lab, User Co-Creation, Collaborative Distance

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Video games for collection exploration: Games for and out of data repositories (Diffusion de nos travaux)

In this paper, we establish a link between video games and data collections. In particular, we examine video games as potential interfaces for collection exploration, i.e. as a platform for a more insightful and exploratory interaction with a repository. Furthermore, we question if a more structural relationship between the game and the collection is possible: Can we produce video games based on the structure of a repository? We explore these ideas on theoretical grounds and by means of a protot [...]

Mots-clés : Video games, Data collections, Data exploration, Human Factors, Theory, Experimentation

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Low cost video game technology to measure and improve motor skills in children (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Video games are ubiquitous in modern day life. Unfortunately, several children are overweight or even obese because they spend a lot of time watching television or playing non-physical video games, instead of perfoming physical activities. Furthermore, this lack of exercise affects their development. The fact that children are becoming overweight or obese is a health concern for many countries that are economical developed (like England) or are in development (like Mexico). In this paper we pres [...]

Mots-clés : Costs, Medical treatment, Pediatrics, Minimally invasive surgery, TV, Games, Airplanes, Virtual reality

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