Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 is a disease that mainly affects children and adolescents and if not handled carefully can lead to several complications . It is therefore proposed the use of a Serious Game for Health , in order to help these children in the learning process about the disease. Références (1) : ALVAREZ, J. et al. Serious games: Training & teaching-healthcare-defence & security-information & communication. IDATE, France, 2010.
Mots-clés : Diabetes, Games, Serious Games, Health Games
Cet ouvrage au concept original propose de parcourir l'histoire du jeu vidéo en France, entre 1974 et 2013, par le biais des "news" (brèves d'actualité) parues dans les magazines spécialisés. Ce premier volume est uniquement focalisé sur l'actualité liée aux jeux vidéo sur consoles. L'auteur a sélectionné différentes actualités racontant les anecdotes les plus marquantes de l'histoire du jeu vid&
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Mots-clés : histoire, jeu video, france, console, actualité
Digital technology users are growingly involved in what has been described as convergence culture or participatory cultures. In this context, a major role is played by user-generated content. This article focuses on the participatory practices related to Little Big Planet (LBP) 1, a PlayStation platform video game that encourages users to create and share their own gaming levels. Our theoretical framework refers both to convergence culture and to a specific perspective of game studies that focus
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Mots-clés : User-generated video gaming, Participatory cultures, PlayStation Network, Little Big Planet
Games are a convenient method of preparing foreign exchange students for the challenges they are going to encounter living in a foreign country. In this paper, we describe the background, concept, and usage of a game called Study-Town created for the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD. The game prepares the foreign exchange students coming to Germany for typical German peculiarities. References (1): Djaouti, D., Alvarez, J., Jessel, J.P., Rampnoux,O. (2011): Origins of Serious Games
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Echange étudiants, Allemagne
Lancé en 1983 par la firme japonaise Nintendo, le jeu vidéo «Mario Bros», mettant en scène les aventures d'un plombier, s'est vendu à plus de 200 millions d'exemplaires à travers le monde sous de nombreuses déclinaisons. Longtemps le jeu vidéo n'a touché que le public adolescent. Depuis quelques années, il est devenu un loisir de masse. Chaque année, des milliers de jeux sont lancés pour t
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Mots-clés : Jeu vidéo, Serious Game
AbstractThis thesis explores the use of serious games from an instructor perspective. More specifically, it aims to study the roles of instructors and how they can be facilitated within an instructor-led game-based training environment. Research within the field of serious games has mostly focused on the learners' perspective, but little attention has been paid to what the instructors do and what challenges that entails. In this thesis, I argue that serious games, as artefacts used for learning
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Mots-clés : Serious games, Serious gaming, Game-based training
Abstract Sign language is the form of communication used by Deaf people, which, in most cases have been learned since childhood. The problem arises when a non-Deaf tries to contact with a Deaf. For example, when nonDeaf parents try to communicate with their Deaf child. In most cases, this situation tends to happen when the parents did not have time to properly learn sign language. This dissertation proposes the teaching of sign language through the usage of serious games. Currently, similar
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Mots-clés : Natural User Interface, Sign Language, Serious Game, Kinect Sensor, Image Processing
Résumé : Dans un contexte marqué par une rupture entre la culture numérique des jeunes et la culture universitaire, les pédagogies basées sur l'usage de Serious Games (SG) se sont largement développés. Ils sont en effet susceptibles de solliciter la motivation des étudiants et de leur permettre de développer des connaissances dans le cadre de situations d'apprentissage complexes. Plusieurs grandes écoles se sont la
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Mots-clés : Serious Games, Apprentissage, Enseignement des Systèmes d'Informations (SI)
FIGAROVOX/ENTRETIEN - Quatre parlementaires ont récemment envoyé une lettre à Axelle Lemaire en lui demandant de soutenir davantage l'industrie du jeu-vidéo en France. Pour le spécialiste Julian Alvarez, ce secteur n'est pas assez reconnu par l'Etat, malgré son énorme potentiel pour notre pays.Julian Alvarez est consultant dans les technologies de l'information et de la communication, et responsable du développement/recherche Serious game/j
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Mots-clés : Jeu vidéo, Serious gaming, Serious Game, Economie, Politique
Many of recent studies have suggested various positive outcomes of serious games. However, relatively little emphasis has been placed on the roles of user-centered factors from a psychological perspective. One of the main goals of serious games is the change of the user`s perception and behavior towards a positive direction. To achieve this goal, psychological factors should be applied to the user`s playing process in serious games. Inspired by construal-level theory(CLT), we propose a CLT appli
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, psychological factors, User's perception