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Gamifying an Oil-Gas-Water Separation Process in a Process Control System to Improve Operators' Motivation, Skills, and Process Understanding (Broacasting our studies)
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 [...]Keywords : Gamification, Serious games, Process control system, Oil and gas separation, Simulator
Le "serious game", le jeux vidéo intelligent dont les entreprises raffolent (Broacasting our studies)
Les "serious games" seront à l'honneur les 23 et 24 mai lors de la conférence "e-virtuoses" à Valenciennes. Le premier de ces jeux vidéo à dimension utilitaire servait à l'origine d'outil de recrutement pour l'armée américaine. Le concept s'avère aujourd’hui efficace par bien des aspects pour les grandes entreprises et bientôt peut-être les PME. Interview de Julian Alvarez.Keywords : Training, Serious game, Compagy
JIES Paris 2012 days (Blog post)
JIES Paris 2012 days approach the topic of the game in sciences education. Intended for the professionals of education, these days are centered towards the reflexion on the relationship between sciences, technology, trainings and games. Ludoscience, represented by Julian Alvarez, was invited to take part to the event May the 3rd. Thank you Traces for its invitation. We will return with pleasure to exchange again with the actors who question themselves on the introdu [...]Keywords : Learning, Education, Game
Ralph Baer : Mémoires du père des jeux vidéo (Book reference)
The autobiography of Ralph Baer, the inventor of home video game consoles. Released in 1972, the Magnavox Odyssey is one of the starting points of the history of video games. First of all, it's the first video console solely dedicated to games. Moreover, one of its titles, Ping-Pong, was a direct source of inspiration for Atari to create Pong. Through a book featuring many pictures, Ralph Baer details us the process he followed to invent this first console ever. As a natural-born engineer, [...]Keywords : ralph baer, magnavox odyssey, first video game, simon, lawsuit, biography
Towards therapeutic education based on Health games? (Broacasting our studies)
JIES Paris 2012 days approach the topic of the game in sciences education. Intended for the professionals of education, these days are centered towards the reflexion on the relationship between sciences, technology, trainings and games. Ludoscience, represented by Julian Alvarez, was invited to take part to the event May the 3rd. Thank you Traces for its invitation. We will return with pleasure to exchange again with the actors who question themselves on the introduction of the [...]Keywords : Education, Learning, Game
Models for designing Learning Role-Playing Games for professional training (Broacasting our studies)
Learners' needs and demands about long-life professional training have changed, thus requiring efficient and motivating training solutions. In the present-day socio-technological context, the use of game for training appears as an interesting answer. This PhD work (conducted in partnership with the company SYMETRIX) deals with the support of pedagogical designers. First, we have conducted an exploratory and structuring study about topics related to the use of game for training. Then, we have foc [...]Keywords : Role playing game, Motivation, Professional training, Learning scenario, Serious game, Pedagogical design
A serious game for speech disorder children therapy (Broacasting our studies)
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 [...]Keywords : Serious game, Health, Health game
International Scientific Symposium « Evaluate and Measure the Impact of Serious Games » (Blog post)
On May 23rd in Valenciennes, we are organizing a scientific symposium called“Evaluate and Measure the Impact of Serious Games” during the international “evirtuoses” event. This meeting aims at asking questions on approaches,paradigms, experience feedbacks enabling the projection of theoreticalframeworks, methodologies leading to evaluate or measure the impact of SeriousGames, but also to report on collected and analyzed results. Serious Gamesgenerate indeed a [...]Keywords : Impact, Evaluation, Measure, Serious Game, Organized system, Ecosystem, Effectiveness
Serious Games : Enjeux, offre et marché - Enseignement - Formation - Santé Information & Communication - Défense (3e e.) (Broacasting our studies)
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.Keywords : Serious Game, Market, Education, Evolution, Defence, Training, Health, Study
Towards Participative and Knowledge-Intensive Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
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 [...]Keywords : Participation architecture, e-training, Serious games, Knowledge Engineering, Cooperation, Discussion forum