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Update: publications and projects (Blog post)
A quick update on the website to add some new publications and projects in which we were involved. Regarding publications, you'll find a couple of posters displayed at the VS-Games 2012 conference to present two ongoing research projects. The first one is titled "TBL3D: Towards Serious Applications for Telescope Maintenance and Control", and presents a Serious Games project about the giant Telescope of a french observatory (download the poster). The second poster details a q [...]Keywords : projects, publications
Serious Games: an Introduction / Introduction au Serious Game (Book reference)
This book explores the "Serious Games" universe. It starts with a definition of Serious Games, in order to identify their differences from entertainment videogames. It will then present out with a lot of current examples of Serious Games from various domains: education, healthcare, communication, defense, politics, etc. The third part will explain you the history of Serious Games, while the fourth and final part gathers many interviews with people from the Serious Games field: de [...]Keywords : serious game, definition, history, interviews, examples
Aesthetic experience and the interface in digital games The production of an edutainment game - Moon (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract In this research, we present one of the principal aspects of games. The interfaces or better knew by the acronym HUD’s (Heads-Up Display). We are going to show the succinct evolution in the history of games suffered by them as well as the advance in their production in order to amplify or affect positive the immersion in digital games. We emphasize forms and ways of developing what we consider an intelligent interface (Boschetti, 2001), in order to help the INDIE developers w [...]Keywords : Interface, Aesthetic experience, Edutainment game
Learning Game 2.0: support for game modding as a learning activity (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract: When we talk about video game, we observe that people who modified it are those who best knows its content. Thus we can consider game modifications as a way of knowledge appropriation. In this paper, we apply this model to learning games, positioning the research project in a Web 2.0 approach. If the content of a game can be learned by playing it, it can be more deeply understood by making this game evolving. The Web 2.0 is not defined by its technologies, but by the way of using [...]Keywords : Modding, Game development kits, Learning game 2.0, Collaborative learning
Book chapter: Classifying Serious Games with The G/P/S Model (Blog post)
We just uploaded in the list of our publications a book chapter related to the classification of Serious Games. This chapter presents the classification system used on the site http://serious.gameclassification.com/ to classify more than 2600 Serious Games. It was published last year in a book titled Handbook of Research on Improving Learning and Motivation through Educational Games: Multidisciplinary Approaches, and it's now freely available on our website (draft version).Keywords : serious games, classification
Introducing the European Serious Games Awards! (Blog post)
The European Serious Games Awards aim to celebrate the best videogames for learning created in Europe. We will rely on scientific evaluation of the submitted games in order to award prizes not only to the best Serious Games, but also to the best academic works in the field. The Awards Ceremony will take place during the VS-Games 2012 Conference in Genoa, Italy, on October 30th 2012. *Prizes* Each winner of one the 4 European Serious Games Awards will be rewarded by the following cash priz [...]Keywords : serious games, awards, europe
The European Serious Games Awards (Our projects)
The European Serious Games Awards aims to celebrate the best works on games for learning in Europe. Organized by GALA (an European Network of Excellence dedicated to research on Serious Games), these awards are quite different from other awards. Instead of relying on the sole advice of a few experts, the European Serious Games Awards are based on a scientific analysis of the games. The Awards ceremony took place during the VS-Games 2012 conference. Organized in Genoa (Italy) from 29 to 31 Octobe [...]Keywords : serious games, awards, europa, academia
Les clés de la réussite d'un Serious Game par Julian Alvarez (Broacasting our studies)
Au cours des e-virtuoses qui ont eu lieu les 23 et 24 mai à Valenciennes, un focus a été fait sur le serious game au travers d’un colloque scientifique. Chercheurs du monde entier (Australie, Etats-Unis, Grande Bretagne…) se sont regroupés sur cet événement pour s’interroger de manière scientifique sur l’évaluation et la mesure de l’impact du Serious game.Keywords : Serious game, Research, Impact, accompaniments
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
Measuring distributed affect in collaborative games (Broacasting our studies)
The ability to engage children in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields early in their scholastic years is critical to ensure the success of the next generation of scientists and engineers. Given that 97% of American teens play video games, there is a tremendous opportunity to engage students in STEM concepts within the framework of a multi-player game. Research has shown that eliciting emotional and affective responses in players can actively increase engagement, learning, an [...]Keywords : Maths, Game