A quick update on the website to add some new publications and projects in which we were involved. Regarding publications, you'll find a couple of posters displayed at the VS-Games 2012 conference to present two ongoing research projects. The first one is titled "TBL3D: Towards Serious Applications for Telescope Maintenance and Control", and presents a Serious Games project about the giant Telescope of a french observatory (download the poster). The second poster details a q
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Keywords : projects, publications
Keywords : serious game, game design, game mechanics, learning mechanics, framework
Keywords : serious game, telescope, professionnal training, virtual world
The Serious Game concept connects video games with the opportunity to broadcast messages, provide training, or enable data collection. Many different market segments make use of such games, including: training, health, defense, communications, politics, etc. The authors present their definition of Serious Games, recount its history, identify the major market segments involved, present key games, and determine whether Serious Games represent a technological innovation or a change in video game us
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Keywords : Serious Game, Serious Gaming, Serious Play, Simulation, Video games
Keywords : serious game, literature
We just uploaded in the list of our publications a book chapter related to the classification of Serious Games. This chapter presents the classification system used on the site http://serious.gameclassification.com/ to classify more than 2600 Serious Games. It was published last year in a book titled Handbook of Research on Improving Learning and Motivation through Educational Games: Multidisciplinary Approaches, and it's now freely available on our website (draft version).
Keywords : serious games, classification
Many serious games dedicated to the health sector have been identified. Within this wide range, theauthors have explored the Serious games offering an educational dimension and targeting either individualsor health-care professionals. Based on a corpus built around this orientation, the goal is todetermine whether or not it is possible to find a use, targeted or not, involving metaphorical contextsamong different titles. In the corpus studied, no metaphor is used for serious game targeting healt
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Keywords : Serious game, Metaphor, Health, Health game
This short article introduces a few definitions about "Serious Gaming": serious games, COTS games used for education, educational mods of entertainment games...
Keywords : serious gaming, definitions
Conclusion de l'ouvrage de Yasmine Kasbi : "Les Serious Games une révolution" (pages 281 to 297) Quelles évolutions peut-on envisager dans le champ du Serious Game ? Il est toujours complexe d’anticiper les évolutions d’un objet. Aussi, nous resterons prudents en nous cantonnant modestement à extrapoler l’évolution du Serious game sur les prochains mois et années à venir en nous appuyant sur des
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Keywords : Serious game
A small contribution to a book related to the design of videogames interfaces.
Keywords : game design, interface