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How to reinvent health prevention through play? (Broacasting our studies)
Interview with Julian Alvarez, PhD in Information and Communication Sciences, specializing in Ludopedagogy, Serious Game & Gamification at Immersive Factory and the University of Lille. Communities and companies committed to the PNNS charter, and more broadly, structures that work in the field of prevention in health nutrition, implement health education actions with different audiences. By definition, a serious game is a mix between serious content and a fun scenario. It can be a learn [...]Keywords : Serious game, Health, Health game, Gamification, Nutrition
Instrumentalizing video games: precautions to take and pitfalls to avoid (Broacasting our studies)
The talk “Instrumentalizing video games: precautions to take and pitfalls to avoid” addressed the effects and counter-effects of using video games for utilitarian purposes, particularly in the workplace and in education. For example, playing with gamers can bring a pedagogical dimension, but poorly orchestrated use can lead to frustration and a potential rejection of the intended learning by participants. This talk is based on the book “Serious Game, "un carcan ludique&quo [...]Keywords : Instrumentalization, Video games, Ethics, Ludopedagogy, Effects, Counter-effects, Serious gaming, Serious game
Introducing pupils to robotics & computer science: when mediating materials impact the teaching action's grammar (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT : This paper presents a comparative study of cognitive mediations between pedagogical devices dedicated to introduced robotic/ computer science to last section of kindergarten learners. The ludo-pedagogical session “Blue Bot” used for the experimentations was declined in three modalities: the body, the robot and digital tablets. This study highlights how mediator instruments influence acts of teaching through the identification of professional gestures, postures an [...]Keywords : Educational robotics, Cognitive mediation, Activity analysis, Last section of kindergarten, Teacher acts, Professional gestures and postures
Ludopedagogy: When playing allows you to learn (Broacasting our studies)
Interview with Julian Alvarez, associate professor at the DeVisu laboratory and INSPE in Lille.The subject is using games as a lever for teaching. Question 1: Who are you Julian Alvarez? https://youtu.be/O9GkHctoEeM Question 2: What is your day-to-day work? https://youtu.be/N_8rDvzSOAsQuestion 3: What impact does your work have on your research? https://youtu.be/8IG0cx0HtvUQuestion 4: What advice do you have for getting started in edutainment? https://yo [...]Keywords : Ludopedagogy, Edutainement, Education, Teaching practices, Learning, Game based learning, Play, Game
Serious gaming activity in team management training : reflections on emotions and debriefing (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract. In a socio-constructivist approach, our study analyzed a serious gaming activity in a four-day management training program. The executives were mostly men in the engineering field who held management roles for more than 2 years. We observed the executives’ 16 training sessions and interviewed 44 executives of big industrial groups, who had participated in the training, one month after the final session. A psychology of work perspective underpinned our theoretical and methodologic [...]Keywords : Emotionality, Debriefing, Reflexivity, Team management, Serious gaming, Ludopedagogy
Clubs de football et e-sport : analyse croisée des influences et des repositionnements économiques et techniques (Broacasting our studies)
Introduction Depuis Septembre 2016, le Paris St Germain[1], puis l’AS Monaco[2] et enfin l’Olympique Lyonnais[3] se sont lancés respectivement dans l’e-sport en s’offrant leur équipe de pro-gamers. Le rapprochement de ces clubs professionnels français vers l'e-sport n'est pas un cas isolé et s'inscrit dans un mouvement déjà amorcé par d’autres clubs européens : Beşiktaş Jimnas [...]Keywords : Football (Soccer), Video Game, e-sport, Markets, Sport Simulation
The serious game in work integration: A comparative study between conventional method and edutainment method (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract This article focuses on a comparative study between conventional methods and serious games, and their impact on learning and motivation. Two hundred and fifty-one jobseekers including 130 enjoying an edutainment and 121 enjoying a conventional counseling, participated in the study. In addition, we conducted 157 interviews with counselors of professional insertion that accompanied these jobseekers. Our results show a significant difference between serious games and conventional [...]Keywords : Serious game, Insertion, Motivation, Learning, Unemployment
Psychological variables mediated by the serious game in the professional insertion and training (Broacasting our studies)
This article presents a state of the art on the link between serious games and psychological variables and their influence on social outcome. Thus, it puts into perspective different research on games and their evolution in the work world, analyzes their impact on job seekers’s learning and behavior, before highlighting the serious game catalytic effects in professional insertion and training. The research perspectives induced by this article are the job search’s gamification and the [...]Keywords : Serious game, Insertion, Dispositional variables, Counseling
A Multi-Agent Simulation of Serious Games to Predict Their Impact on E-Learning Processes (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract—Serious games constitute actually a recent and attractive way supposed to replace the classical boring courses. However, the choice of the adapted serious game to a specific learning environment remains a challenging task that makes teachers unwilling to adopt this concept. To fill this gap, we present, in this paper, a multi-agent-based simulator allowing to predict the impact of a serious game integration in a learning environment given several game and players characteristics. [...]Keywords : Emotion, Learning process, Multi-agent simulation, Serious games
Using UML to Model Educational Games (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:There has been a constant increase in the number of serious games. In recent years, they have become extremely important within the scientific community and their repercussions on industry have been reflected in exponential growth in terms of their economic impact. The term serious game covers an extremely wide range of video games all with very different purposes and with many different areas of application. One of the most prolific areas is the field of education and many research pap [...]Keywords : Games, Unified modeling language, Proposals, Education, Avatars, Software, Adaptation models