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A Brief History of Serious Games (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractSerious Games are now an established field of study. In this field most would attribute the rise of Serious Games to Clark C Abt’s creation of the term in 1970, or indeed Ben Sawyer’s popularization of it in 2002. However, considering the rich history of purposing non-digital games, itself preceded by discussions of purposing play that are traceable to the work of Plato, it can be said that Serious Games is a contemporary manifestation of centuries old theories and practices. [...]

Mots-clés : Serious games, Play, Simulation-based learning, Game-based learning, Games for social change, Games for health, Playful learning

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The Experimental Method as an Evaluation Tool in Serious Games Research and Development (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractThis chapter aims to provide the reader with basic knowledge about the experiment as a general method that can be applied towards serious games research and evaluation. It explains the main terms and rules of the experimental design, as well as points out the main risks and difficulties to avoid. The chapter also explains the differences in possible conclusions between true experiments, quasi-experiments, and correlational studies. References (1): Djaouti, D., Alvarez, J., Jess [...]

Mots-clés : Experiment, Experimental design, Variables, Validity, Biases, Samples, Quasi-experiment, Correlational study

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Le serious game : applications thérapeutiques en psychiatrie (Diffusion de nos travaux)

R é s u m é  Les serious games (SG) sont des applications informatiques visant à combiner des aspects utilitaires avec des ressorts ludiques issus du jeu vidéo. Le développement récent des technologies du numérique dans le domaine de la santé mentale permet d’envisager à ces nouveaux supports, une application dans la prise en charge des pathologies psychiatriques. Nous avons réalisé en mai 2014 une recherche [...]

Mots-clés : Psychiatrie, Jeu vidéo, Psychothérapie, Serious game, Pathologie psychiatrique

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Digital Educational Games: Methodologies for Development and Software Quality (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Development of a game in the form of software for game-based learning poses significant technical challenges for educators, researchers, game designers, and software engineers. The game development consists of a set of complex processes requiring multi-faceted knowledge in multiple disciplines such as digital graphic design, education, gaming, instructional design, modeling and simulation, psychology, software engineering, visual arts, and the learning subject area. Planning and managing such a [...]

Mots-clés : Digital game development, Educational game development, Game development life cycle, Game development methodology, Game development processes, Game development workflows, Game software quality evaluation, Game-based learning

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Serious Game to Enhance and Promote Youth Entrepreneurship (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractEntrepreneurship constitutes a key driver providing jobs and wealth creation. Besides, promoting entrepreneurship can play significant role to ensure the prosperity of a society. In this respect our article aims to foster entrepreneurship education, through focusing on the effectiveness of serious games as educational tools, whose goal supporting young people to actively being entrepreneurs. In this paper, we unveil the entrepreneurial context notably at the national level, where we high [...]

Mots-clés : Entrepreneurial learning, Learning process, Serious games, Entrepreneurship education

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Designing an Agile Game for Technical Communication Classrooms (Diffusion de nos travaux)

This technical paper details the development of a board game designed to help technical communication students understand scrum-based agile project management, as well as assist practitioners in introducing scrum management to a team unfamiliar with the process. I ground the development and design of the game with a literature review of scholarship on agile project management, games in education and business, and collaboration. I present my methodology in the form of a game design document (GDD) [...]

Mots-clés : Board game, Design, Scrum, Education, Méthodologie, Game Design

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ARCHITECTURE DE GÉNÉRATION AUTOMATIQUE DE SCÉNARIOS PÉDAGOGIQUES DE JEUX SÉRIEUX ÉDUCATIFS (Diffusion de nos travaux)

RÉSUMÉ Cette thèse porte sur les jeux sérieux éducatifs (JSÉ). En tant qu’environnements informatiques pour l’apprentissage humain (EIAH), les JSÉ doivent adapter leur contenu à la progression de l’apprentissage chez le joueur-apprenant (JA) et, en tant que jeux vidéo, ils doivent chercher à maintenir son engagement dans cette expérience d’apprentissage. Dans un JSÉ, les tâches [...]

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Business Management Simulations - a detailed industry analysis as well as recommendations for the future (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract  Being exposed to serious games showed that some simulations widely vary in quality and learning outcome. In order to get to the bottom of best practices a detailed review of business management simulation literature was conducted. Additionally, an industry analysis was performed, by interviewing 17 simulation companies, testing a range of full and demo games, and conducting secondary research. The findings from both research efforts were then collated and crossreferenced against e [...]

Mots-clés : Business Management Simulation Game, Technology Enhanced Learning, Serious Gaming, Best Practice

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Requirements Engineering for Pervasive Games Based Smart Learning Systems (Diffusion de nos travaux)

The overlap of different features of pervasive games based smart learning systems (PGBSLSs) including the ludic aspect, the pervasive aspect and the educational aspect adds complexity to use requirements at design time and Runtime. Many methodologies and frameworks that make use of requirements models can be found in the literature, but very few of them use ontologies to ground the models that are used in PGBSLSs development. We propose in this paper a semantic model in the requirements engineer [...]

Mots-clés : Pervasive games, Smart Learning, Requirements Engineering, Ontology

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Virtual Reality-Based Holistic Framework: A Tool for Participatory Development of Customised Playful Therapy Sessions for Motor Rehabilitation (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract:The research in-progress presented in this paper proposes a holistic VR-based framework for participatory design of Serious Games for motor rehabilitation. The proposed framework is devised in layers that facilitate the mapping of game mechanics to playful therapeutic exercise games. The framework proposed can be disease agnostic and applies to a wider range of service users, regardless of their condition and motor functional capacity. The pilot study design for evaluating the proposed [...]

Mots-clés : Games, Diseases, Monitoring, Medical treatment, Biomedical monitoring, Stakeholders, Systems architecture

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