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
Abstract Professional training for risky professions involves simulation training. This kind of facilities has appeared very important to give to the workers the initial knowledge, to improve the skills of experienced workers, and to make them face rare situations for which they must be potentially ready to deal with. The past years, a broad range of simulation systems including virtuality have become available on the market, and the professions concerned are wider every year. The possibili
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Simulation, Training
Ce chapitre traite de l'origine historique des Serious Games : "The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the historical origins of Serious Games to try to understand where the current wave of "Serious Games" comes from. We first review the origins of the "Serious Games" oxymoron. We will then analyse digital games designed for serious purposes before the 2000's. Such games can be traced back to the beginning of the history of video games. We will use all these ele
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Mots-clés : serious games, histoire
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
Un essai humoristique dans lequel l'auteur dissèque les "leçons de vie" qui sont contenues dans les jeux vidéo classiques des consoles 8 et 16 bits (en particulier NES, Super NES, Megadrive). Par exemple, le jeu à deux dans Contra vous fait réfléchir sur le fait d'avoir un meilleur ami, tandis que Paperboy vous enseignera les bases de la relation client. Si tous les chapitres ne se valent pas en terme de qualité, certains sont excellents
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Mots-clés : humour, nes, super nes, megadrive, leçons de vie
AbstractLes jeux vidéo sérieux offrent aujourd’hui une grande diversité de catégories et d’usages. Ils prétendent changer notre rapport au monde comme au jeu. Pour surmonter les paradoxes provenant de l’opposition entre activité ludique et activité sérieuse, il est préférable d’étudier ces nouveaux produits en termes d’utilité. La méthode de la recherche présenté
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Mots-clés : Jeu vidéo, Serious Game, Utilité
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
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Business Process, Modeling, Management, Participative process, Process improvement, BPM
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
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Mots-clés : Transmediality, Fictional immersion, Computer gaming, Culture of memory, Collective memory, Representation of history, Jáchym Topol, Novel