Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious gameImpact of the Serious game: 1st approach. Organization of e UGSG contest This article aims at bringing the tangible proof of any impact causedby the Serious game object on their users. The followed idea is to organizean international contest to have on the one hand a corpus ofstudy and on the other a comparison between our approach of theSerious game object and those of the developpers. The tangible proofis well lis
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Keywords : Serious games, Creation, Evaluation, Impact, Perception
Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious game 2nd approach. Realization and diffusion of 3 Serious games This article presents the 2nd approach. This one initially aims to identifya public to play Serious games matching our approach of the object.Then, if we count such a public, the idea is to study it by questioning iton its relation with the object. To lead this study, we work out 3 Seriousgames filling our needs and study their diffusions and catch in hand
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Keywords : Serious games, Audience, Impact, Diffusion, Multiplayer
Study of the impact of electronic communications based on Serious game 3rd approach. Creation of a Play & Rate 2.0 Website dedicated to Serious games This 3rd approach aims at studying more in detail the nature of the Seriousgames’ impact on the players. To drive this study, we develop a2.0 Internet site allowing the Net surfers to play Serious games and toevaluate them. With this tool, a panel of 121 people is questioned. Atthe end, we discover there exists a variety of di
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Keywords : Serious games, Perception, Impact, Web 2.0, Evaluation
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Ce numéro de Muzax va vous faire découvrir l’univers des « Serious Games ». Pour la première fois dans Muzax, je recevais 3 invités. Julian Alvarez, Docteur en science de l'information et de la communication. Damien Djaouti, Doctorant en Art et Informatique à l’Université de Toulouse. Et Olivier Batiste, grand joueur de jeux vidéo, ancien rédacteur et co-équipier dans l’&eacut
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Keywords : Serious games
Serious games (SGs), the confluence of e-learning and videogames, have been developing very fast these past years. Indeed, SGs combine aspects of tutoring, teaching, training, communication and information, with entertainment elements derived from videogames, in order to capture people's attention for purposes that go beyond pure entertainment. However, the creation of a SG for educational purposes and professional training is a very time-consuming and expensive process. The challenge is to comb
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Keywords : Serious games, Scenario design, Authoring environment, e-learning, Pedagogical objective
A presentation of our serious game created for the urban district "Andromède", located near Toulouse. This example shows how Serious Games can be used to communicate by local public organisations.
Keywords : serious game, ecology, local organisation
This book explores the "Serious Games" universe. It starts with a definition of Serious Games, in order to identify their differences from entertainment videogames. It will then present out with a lot of current examples of Serious Games from various domains: education, healthcare, communication, defense, politics, etc. The third part will explain you the history of Serious Games, while the fourth and final part gathers many interviews with people from the Serious Games field: designer
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Keywords : serious game, definition, history, interviews, examples
Abstract:A number of existing innovation paradigms and design approaches such as Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003), User Experience (Hassenzahl & Tractinsky, 2006) and User Centred Design (Von Hippel, 2005), as well as User Centred Open Innovation Ecosystem (Pallot, 2009a), are promoting distributed collaboration among organisations and user communities. However, project stakeholders are mainly trained for improving their individual skills through learning experience (i.e. practical exercis
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Keywords : Experiential Service Platform, Serious Game, Learning Experience, User Experience, Living Lab, User Co-Creation, Collaborative Distance
This report analyses the different Serious Game markets through a systematic examination of the technologies, the uses made of the games and the different professions involved, with particular focus on the key stages of design, development and distribution. It also explores the outlook for each market segment....
Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play