The aim of this chapter is to determine whether the Serious Game is a human invention. To answer this question, we propose to check whether both Serious Game and Serious Play can be found in the animal kingdom. If such a census proves negative, then we can conclude that the Serious Game could indeed correspond to a human invention. If this were not the case, then Serious Play would be better regarded as inter-species activities. This would then lead us to study whether it is possible to identify
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Keywords : Serious Game, Serious Play, Social Play, Play object, Solo Play, Animal behavior, Invention, Innovation
The aim of this chapter is to present a range of terms and concepts: “Ludopedagogy”, “Serious Game”, “Gamification”, “Ludification”, “Ludicisation”, “Serious Toy”, “Serious Gaming”, “Degamification” and “Toyification”. They are all related to “ludopedagogy”. To contextualize what we're saying, we'll use an artifact - a sponge - as a support. The aim of this approach is to show
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Keywords : Ludopedagogy, Serious game, Gamification, Serious Gaming, ,Gamification
This chapter describes the CEPAJe model, which is used to design and evaluate an edutainment sequence. In concrete terms, it presents the CEPAJe model, and illustrates with examples of the use of serious games how it can be used to prepare, upstream, an educational sequence. How it can be used to prepare an edutainment session upstream, and then to evaluate the session downstream, so that the activity can be the activity for the next time.
Keywords : Serious game, Play based learning, Evaluation, CEPAJe
In a tense job market, where almost all sectors are struggling to recruit, and candidates are spoilt for choice, companies are looking for ways to stand out from the crowd... they are vying for originality, and some are no longer hesitating to invite games onto their premises: escape games for recruitment, serious games for career development... between those who praise the approach and those who speak of infantilization, the feedback seems mixed: so, integrating games into companies: a really g
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Keywords : Company, Human Resources, Serious game
This Mind Map presents all Julian Alvarez's work since 1991 in the fields of serious games, edutainment, video games, robot pedagogy... In concrete terms, you'll find writings, applications, videos, podcasts... The idea is to offer you a different way of browsing the various resources.We welcome your feedback!
This mind map presents all Julian Alvarez's work since 1991 in the fields of serious games, edutainment, video games, robot pedagogy... In concrete terms, you'll find writings, applications, videos, podcasts... The idea is to offer you a different way of browsing the various resources. We welcome your feedback!
Keywords : Mind Map, Ressources
Between 2021 and 2022, INSPE Lille and Julian Alvarez have designed and produced a traveling exhibition entitled “Does the video game escape the question of gender?”. With a view to media education, the exhibition invites visitors to question the representations and imaginaries conveyed by video games in relation to questions of gender, identity and sexual orientation.In concrete terms, the exhibition is made up of 15 posters, based on the principle of Figure 1: a central question, i
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Keywords : Video game, Gender, Gender stereotype, Sexism
The aim of this paper is to present a lexicometric study identifying, between 1980 and 2019, the number of occurrences of the following 4 keywords: “joueuse”, “joueuses”, “joueur” and “joueurs” that can be identified in the French-language videogame press. In concrete terms, the corpus explored represents a set of 1,075 documents, the main titles of which are shown in Table 1. Statistical processing was carried out to check the validity of the data
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Keywords : Female player, Male player, Female gamer, Male player, Gender stereotype, Video games press, Representation, Video game
50 years ago, in 1972, the general public really discovered video games, with the commercial success of Atari's Pong arcade machine and the launch of the first home console: Odyssey's Magnavox. Before 1972, video games already existed, but they were not really accessible to the general public. This was known as the “prehistory of video games”.20 years ago, in 2002, the general public discovered the video game title America's Army. Developed for the U.S. Army and distributed free on t
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Keywords : Serious games, Retro serious games, Video games, Retrogaming, Video game history
ISSN-L (papier) : 1622-1494 · ISSN (électronique) : 2111-434XArticle pp.213-248 du Vol.17 n°1-2 (2021) TitleEvolution and influences of the key-words “gameplay”, “ludic” and “fun” in the writings produced by English-speaking and French-speaking journalist’s communities related to video games between 1977 and 2019 AbstractThis paper aims to study whether the community of English-speaking journalist
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