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Learning cultural heritage by serious games (Broacasting our studies)
a b s t r a c t Immersive technologies such as virtual environments and augmented reality have a clear potential to support the experiencing of cultural heritage by the large public, complementing the current tools and practices based on tangible goods such as museums, exhibitions, books and visual content. Serious games – videogames designed for educational objectives – appear as a new tool to learn cultural content in an engaging way. In this paper, we will provide an extensiv [...]Keywords : Cultural heritage, Serious Game
Serious games and human resources management: a mapping in the CAC 40 companies (Broacasting our studies)
For almost ten years, serious games have been becoming more and more popular in large French companies, especially toward human resource managers who use them to recruit, integrate, train, support, develop, communicate and sensitize. However, few research papers are based on the academic literature in management science. The purpose of this paper is to build a typology of serious games based on their use in human resource management. To construct this typology, an inventory of all serious games [...]Keywords : Serious game, Ressources humaines, Cartographie, Usages, Grandes entreprises
"RevQuest: The Black Chambers": Bringing together technology and gaming at a historical site (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:In the digital age, museums and historical sites must explore how to leverage technologies to engage guests. Gaming-whether technology-based or not--is an approach that some museums have been using as a means for teaching visitors. Bringing the two together to create an online-onsite-online game is an effective approach for educating, immersing, and engaging guests, especially “digital natives” for whom technology is an integral part of daily life. In June 2013, the Colonial [...]Keywords : Games, Cities and towns, XML, History, Sociology, Statistics, Engines
AREF 2013 - member of the organizing committee (Broacasting our studies)
Participation in the organizing committee of the AREF 2013 conference.Keywords : aref 2013, organizing
Call for Papers: JCAL Special Issue on 'Learning Analytics in Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments and Courses' (Blog post)
CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL) on Learning Analytics in Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments and CoursesThere has been much interest of late in ‘big data’ and the role it can play in decision making in diverse areas of business, science and entertainment. By employing a combination of modern artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics techniques, extremely large and complex data sets can be &lsquo [...]Keywords : call for papers, journal
SeGaMed 2013 : Sept 12-14 Nice, FR - Call for papers (Blog post)
SeGaMed 2013: Sept 12-14 Nice, FRCall for proposals A renewal 2013 edition ... After the success of the 2012 conference, the School of Medicine of Nice is hosting the second international SeGaMed conference dedicated to the applying of serious games for medicine and healthcare.This year, two major innovations: the embedding of SeGaMed as a conference of the first "Journées de l'Enseignement Universitaire par le Numérique en Santé" (the 'JEUNS) and the o [...]Keywords : Serious game, Health, Health game
Expanding the magic circle in pervasive casual play (Broacasting our studies)
In this document we present proposals for merging the fictional game world with the real world taking into account the profile of casual players. To merge games with reality we resorted to the creation of games that explore diverse real world elements. We focused on sound, video, physiological data, accelerometer data, weather and location. We made the choice for these real world elements because data, about those elements, can be acquired making use of functionality already available, or forese [...]Keywords : Casual games, Pervasive games, Sound, Video, Physiological data, Electrodermal activity, Accelerometer, Weather