LudoScience

Concevoir un scénario de jeu vidéo sérieux pour l'enseignement-apprentissage des langues ou comment dominer un oxymore (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Résumé : Cette recherche étudie l‘utilisation du jeu vidéo pour l’apprentissage des langues étrangères en classe. L’étude porte sur l’intégration de ce support issu de pratiques informelles au contexte formel de la classe de langue. A la fois ludique et à visée d’apprentissage, le ‘jeu vidéo d’apprentissage’ incarne un oxymore, point de tension entre deux pôles, [...]

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Serious Gaming, Serious Modding et Serious Diverting? Etes-vous sérieux ?! (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Dans la recherche francophone, l'expression « serious gaming » est utilisée en anglais pour désigner la pratique du détournement de jeux vidéo visant trois nouvelles finalités fonctionnelles : la diffusion de message(s), la formation et la collecte de données. Les « serious games » se distinguent ainsi du « serious gaming » : si le résultat final peut sembler similaire (combiner des jeux à des fins &eacut [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Game, Serious Modding, Serious Diverting, Serious Gaming

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Serious games: history and future (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract After the turn of the century, video games have risen up to the level of the largest mainstream entertainment mediums, now even challenging the movie industry in size. Even though the area occupied by serious games in this market has only just recently really started growing, with serious games still being only a relatively small portion of the video games market, has the idea of using games as tools for education and training been the target of continuous interest for at least the [...]

Mots-clés : Video games, Serious games, Simulations, Simulate, Educational games, Edutainment, Health games, War games

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Serious games as a malleable learning medium: The effects of narrative, gameplay, and making on students' performance and attitudes (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractResearch into educational technology has evaluated new computer-based systems as tools for improving students’ academic performance and engagement. Serious games should also be considered as an alternative pedagogical medium for attracting students with different needs and expectations. In this field study, we empirically examined different forms of serious-game use for learning on learning performance and attitudes of eighty 13-year-old students in the first grade of middle school [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Game, student engagement, Learning

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Game Learning Analytics: Learning Analytics for Serious Games (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractVideo games have become one of the largest entertainment industries, and their power to capture the attention of players worldwide soon prompted the idea of using games to improve education. However, these educational games, commonly referred to as serious games, face different challenges when brought into the classroom, ranging from pragmatic issues (e.g., a high development cost) to deeper educational issues, including a lack of understanding of how the students interact with the games [...]

Mots-clés : Serious games, Game learning analytics, Learning analytics, Game analytics, Educational standards

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Acceptance of Serious Games in Psychotherapy: An Inquiry into the Stance of Therapists and Patients (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Background: Serious games are computer or video games that contain elements that are specifically designed for the purpose of education or training. Serious games are increasingly being used within healthcare, but their introduction into and application in psychotherapeutic settings as an e-mental health treatment modality raises questions for both patients and therapists. Current research demonstrates the potential role and effectiveness of serious games within a psychotherapeutic context. [...]

Mots-clés : e-mental health, patients' and therapists' viewpoint, psychotherapy, serious games

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Summarising the 7 Dimensions of an Action-Oriented Framework for Video Games (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractThis article summarises our Ph.D. thesis – an analytical view on the player-game relationship through the lens of an action-oriented framework, centred on fundamental entities defined as actors, entities through which action is enacted in the game and of which the player and the game system are a part of. With this in mind, the grounding principles of this framework are seeded in a transition of action into experience, based on communicational systems that structure the dynamic for [...]

Mots-clés : Action, chronologie, Design, transcodage, Jeux vidéo

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GAMIFICATION IN EDUCATION: THE NEW APPROACH TO EVALUATE GAMEPLAY (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Résumé : The article is dedicated to trending topic on gamifi cation of education. Nowadays video games and game technologies are important parts of modern educational technologies. The aim of the study is to develop mechanism for determining the possibility of using video game mechanics in gamifi cation. The authors described the classifi cation of video games and game mechanics based on literature review of English and Russian authors. The new evaluation method based on the [...]

Mots-clés : Gamification, Education, Genre jeu vidéo, Classification, Mécanique de jeux, Gameplay, Méthode d'évaluation, Etat de Flow

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A Tale of Two Cities: A Multimodal Analysis of the Figurative Expressions about City in Picture Books (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Realizing the significant role that city plays in the development of human civilization, the influence it brings to people’s life in the modern society, as well as its absence in fields other than architecture, urban design, and urban planning, this research aims to study the multimodal metaphorical manifestations of civic imagery in picture books from a cognitive linguistic point of view. Relying on the Visual-Verbal Multimodal Metaphor Identification Procedure (VVMMIP) constructed by us [...]

Mots-clés : Multimodal metaphor, Metonymy, City, Picture books, Visual-Verbal Multimodal Metaphor Identification P, Magic surrealism, Multimodal Metaphorical Scenario Chain Reaction

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Introduction au numéro spécial « Évaluation dans les jeux sérieux » (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Introduction au numéro spécial « Évaluation dans les jeux sérieux » Editorial Pierre-André CARON (Université Lille 1, CIREL), Sébastien GEORGE (Université du Maine, LIUM), Julian ALVAREZ (Université Lille 1, CIREL) 1. Introduction et contexte du numéro spécialDepuis 2002, les jeux sérieux suscitent un engouement croissant par les [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Game, Jeux Sérieux, Evaluation

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