AbstractWhile a lot of papers have argued for the educational potential of serious games, the field is still young and methods and tools are needed in order to support effective and efficient design. The SG Studies Database is an instrument devised to allow sharing structured information about SGs. This information can be used by scholars and practitioners also to perform comparative analysis and identify components and modules that could be used in different games. The SG Studies database, whic
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Mots-clés : Personal Computing, Computers and Education, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Software Engineering
Résumé : Cette recherche étudie l‘utilisation du jeu vidéo pour l’apprentissage des langues étrangères en classe. L’étude porte sur l’intégration de ce support issu de pratiques informelles au contexte formel de la classe de langue. A la fois ludique et à visée d’apprentissage, le ‘jeu vidéo d’apprentissage’ incarne un oxymore, point de tension entre deux pôles,
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AbstractInnovations being achieved with interactive devices (screens, sensors etc.) allow the development of new forms of interaction for many applications. Videogames played with these devices are completely changing how we use them and taking advantage of intuitive interfaces. Based on that, we ask “What aspects of playability are affected using different input devices for a certain gaming task and how is gaming performance affected?”. Our contribution is to present a practical eva
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Mots-clés : Emotions in HCI, Entertainment systems, Evaluation methods and techniques, User Experience, Input devices
Abstract During this project a serious game was created, which included a pedagogical agent to teach middle schoolers about art concepts. The game is used to test if the option to customise the agent would have an effect on fun, knowledge gain, and how the player rated the agent. This game consists of five mini games and a character creator. The mini games each focused on teaching a specific art concept; perspective, image cropping, composition, genre, and colour blending. The player can cu
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Mots-clés : Serious Game
Cet article propose un modèle formel de jeux sérieux utilisable et compréhensible par les enseignants du supérieur. Depuis quelques années ces derniers sont confrontés à de multiples évolutions de leur métier dues à des facteurs divers : nouvelles générations d'étudiants connectés, apparition des MOOC ou encore usage des jeux sérieux. Ces derniers ont fait l'objet de nombreux appels d'offres
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Jeux Sérieux, Modèle de conception, Education, Enseignement, Création
Au cours de ces dernières années, l’utilisation de la réalité mixte a permis une évolution importante de l’authenticité et de l’immersion dans les jeux sérieux. La multiplication des innovations et la croissance de ce marché ont permis de diminuer le coût des dispositifs techniques. Cependant, le développement d’applications basées sur ces nouveaux systèmes de captation et d’affichage
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Mots-clés : Réalité mixte, Jeux Sérieux, Serious Game, Immersion, Architecture d'environnement, Développeurs, Intégration, Implémentation
AbstractThe advent of mobile phone with a multi-megapixel camera and autouploaders has democratised photography. Taking pictures and acquiring annotations is no longer an expensive task as it used to be. Yet performing these tasks in a systematically way is still very cumbersome for most users. In this paper, we outline two game mechanics that can be exploited for the purpose of large-scale image sensing and content annotation. Our first mechanic allows for better control over when, how and wher
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Mots-clés : game mechanics, photography
Abstract Recent advancement of the technology on hand gesture tracking devices provided new opportunities for Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Although great progress has been made by leveraging devices like Leap Motion, most of the focus is on the entertainment domain. This research project focuses towards virtual rehabilitation using serious games, by improving the cognitive and motor skills of the children with special needs. Proposed hypothesis included the implementation of 3D mouse
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Mots-clés : Serious Game
Abstract After the turn of the century, video games have risen up to the level of the largest mainstream entertainment mediums, now even challenging the movie industry in size. Even though the area occupied by serious games in this market has only just recently really started growing, with serious games still being only a relatively small portion of the video games market, has the idea of using games as tools for education and training been the target of continuous interest for at least the
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Mots-clés : Video games, Serious games, Simulations, Simulate, Educational games, Edutainment, Health games, War games
Résumé(s)Les transports publics soutiennent l’indépendance et encouragent l’inclusion sociale, scolaire et professionnelle. Ils sont des moyens sûrs pour avoir accès à la ville, aux services et aux activités. Toutefois, l’usage des transports publics en service régulier nécessite des connaissances et un savoir-faire que tous les voyageurs, tels que les personnes ayant des incapacités intellectuelles, ne ma&ici
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Mots-clés : Incapacités intellectuelles, Transports publics en service régulier, Formation aux déplacements, Serious Game, Jeu sérieux