The development of multiple web applications with features of video games gave way to a new trend called Gamification. However, there isn't a clear explanation that allows the connection of the elements of the game applications with non-game features, mainly in traditional highly regulated financial sector. The aim of this study is to investigate the acceptance of a business application Gamified in e-banking. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the results from an online survey of 18
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Mots-clés : Gamification, Game
ABSTRACT The recognition of facial expressions is important for the perception of emotions. Understanding emotions is essential in human communication and social interaction. Children with autism have been reported to exhibit deficits in the recognition of affective expressions. With the appropriate intervention, elimination of those deficits can be achieved. Interventions are proposed to start as early as possible. Computer-based programs have been widely used with success to teach people
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Mots-clés : Serious Games, Gesture-based interaction, Natural User Interface, Autism, Facial emotion recognition
The recognition of facial expressions is important for the perception of emotions. Understanding emotions is essential in human communication and social interaction. Children with autism have been reported to exhibit deficits in the recognition of affective expressions. Their difficulties in understanding and expressing emotions lead to inappropriate behavior derived from their inability to interact adequately with other people. Those deficits seem to be rather permanent in individuals with auti
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In this paper we present a Digital Serious Game set in a medieval alchemical laboratory, aimed at disseminating the ancient knowledge of medicine distillation contained in the famous Adam Lonicer's Kreuterbuch (1569) treatise. The application is based on interactive Virtual Environments and available on multiple visualization technologies, ranging from simple touch-based tablet up to immersive environments such as CAVEs or Oculus Rift. The game comes as the latest development level o
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Mots-clés : Libraries Archives, Virtual Environment, Immersion, Interaction, Learning, Digital Serious Games
Résumé : Le serious game d'apprentissage utilisé dans le monde professionnel se doit de lier la pratique du jeu à la pratique métier. Cet enjeu concerne les concepteurs, ainsi que les responsables de formation ou responsables des ressources humaines, tous intéressés par la transmission ou l'évaluation des compétences. Mais alors que les serious games simulant des relations interpersonnelles convoquent les notions de fictio
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Mots-clés : Mise en abyme, Métalepse, Semio-pragmatique, Jeux sérieux, Documentaire, Apprentissage
Dans cette revue de littérature sont abordés les impacts des jeux vidéo et sérieux en termes de potentiel éducatif et d'apports pour la formation et l'apprentissage. Après avoir définit les jeux vidéo et sérieux les auteurs examinent successivement les dimensions... References (1): Alvarez, J., Du jeu video au serious game : approche culturelle, pragmatique et formelle, Thèse de doctorat, Spécialit&
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Abstract Social, economic and global changes make it difficult to predict what the future might hold. Creativity is one possible response to these changes. Indeed, creative skills enable students to face the complex nature of life. As a result, creativity has become significant in education, and is regarded as an important objective to be addressed in the curriculum. Nevertheless, creativity is not always promoted in schools. Rather, there are those who claim that many educational systems hinder
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Mots-clés : Creativité, Game-Based Learning, Game design
Despite the growing interest in interactive storytelling techniques, their actual applications to traditional gameplay design remain to be investigated. However, many game designers have expressed concerns about the incorporation of such generative techniques in traditional game titles, mainly because of the lack of control they will have over dynamically generated content. This paper proposes an authoring tool allowing game designers to formalize, visualize, modify, and validate game level solu
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Mots-clés : Cultural Heritage , Game Level Design, Gameplay, Serious Game
INTRODUCTION La formation professionnelle des sapeurs-pompiers est un enjeu important en matière d’acquisition de savoirs, de techniques, de procédures opérationnelles et ce, afin d’assurer un commandement efficace dans le cadre des missions de secours, qui nous sont confiées. La simulation à l’aide de la réalité virtuelle est apparue chez les sapeurs-pompiers en 1999 à l’ECASC3 au travers du simulateur «
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Jeux Sérieux, Pompiers, Sécurité, Simulateur, Simulation, Apprentissage, Entraînement
There is not a lot of data available yet in which way Serious Games are integrated in medical education. A lot of different opinions and concepts are discussed concerning in which way Serious Games can be effectively integrated in the medical curriculum. In this article we developed criteria for the implementation of Serious Games for Health in the medical education. 29 Serious Games for Health were tested to their applicability for undergraduate medical education. Six games seem to be suitable
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Mots-clés : Medical games, Medical education, Health game, Health, Santé