Abstract Serious games and its related fields have lately received a lot of interest due to their potential for training and education. Serious games can be defined as (digital) games that are used for reasons other than entertainment. Gamification can be related to serious games and can be defined as the process of game-thinking and game mechanics to engage users and solve problems. The initiator of this project was ABB. ABB delivers a process control system used to control the processes o
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Mots-clés : Gamification, Serious games, Process control system, Oil and gas separation, Simulator
Today meaning of games is much more serious than just considering them as an entertainment and free-time activity. Games have begun to be used in many different areas such as education, healthcare, military, corporate management and public policy for different purposes. Several benefits of serious games have been reported in the literature. Studies also show that with a combination of entertainment and education (edutainment) several benefits could be achieved in the rehabilitation process of th
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Health Game, Health
We propose the “Architecture for Representations, Games, Interactions, and Learning among Experts” (ARGILE) for participatory and knowledge -intensive serious games. Faced with the problem of training on professional practices in areas of advanced expertise, reference knowledge are neither stabilized nor unanimous, but rather dynamic and continuously evolving. Moreover, the practicioner does not make decisions based on pre-established recipes, but it is brought to trial and error, to
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Mots-clés : Participation architecture, e-training, Serious games, Knowledge Engineering, Coopération, Forum de discussion
In this paper, we present a new model to analyse therapeutic games. The goal of the model is to describe and analyse the relations between the three aspects of a therapeutic game: the player, the game, and the therapy. The model is intended to game designers. It is a tool to improve the communication between health experts and game designers, and to evaluate the game design coherency of therapeutic games. It also helps to analyse existing games to discover relevant features. The model is built w
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Mots-clés : Video games, Evaluation, Analysis, Model, Game design, Serious games, Therapeutic
This study examines the various market segments of Serious Gaming based on detailed case studies and a systematic presentation of the corresponding technologies, practices and know-how, while emphasising on the key stages of the design, development and dissemination phases. It also provides technology and business prospects for each market segment. Serious Gaming (SG) is at the crossroads of several disciplines: e-learning, computing, engineering,
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Study, Health, Defence, Education, Market, Evolution, Training
1. « games as popular art forms offer to allan immediate means of participation inthe full life of a society, such as no singlerole or job can offer to any man. »M. McLUHAN2. Introduction aux serious games De nouveaux outils de transmission du savoir Séminaire Invisu « Nouvelles formes d éditorialisation » Institut National dHistoire de lArt Simon Bachelier – jeudi 10 février 20113. Un loisir d adulte… Profil des joueurs par tra
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Histoire, Health game, Datagame
Depuis quelques années, des spécialistes développent des jeux vidéo "thérapeutiques" capables de traiter certaines maladies motrices et neurologiques. Pourtant, même si la perspective est prometteuse, le chemin vers la reconnaissance est encore long.
Mots-clés : jeux vidéo thérapeutiques, Santé, Health game, Serious game
Cette étude présente les différents marchés du Serious Game à partir d'une analyse systématique des technologies, des usages et des métiers, en détaillant particulièrement les étapes clés de la conception, du développement et de la diffusion. Elle présente également les perspectives pour chaque segment de marché.
Mots-clés : Serious Games, Serious Play
Video games are ubiquitous in modern day life. Unfortunately, several children are overweight or even obese because they spend a lot of time watching television or playing non-physical video games, instead of perfoming physical activities. Furthermore, this lack of exercise affects their development. The fact that children are becoming overweight or obese is a health concern for many countries that are economical developed (like England) or are in development (like Mexico). In this paper we pres
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Mots-clés : Costs, Medical treatment, Pediatrics, Minimally invasive surgery, TV, Games, Airplanes, Virtual reality
(Serious game) Jeu pour la santé.