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Serious Games: Issues, offer and market Education - Training - Health Care Information & Communication - Defence (3rd Edition) (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.    Serious Gaming (SG) is at the crossroads of several disciplines: e-learning, computing, engineering, virtual world d [...]

Keywords : Serious Game, Market, Evolution, Health, Defence, Education, Study, Training

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Serious Game Design - Theoretical and technical study of the creation of games aimed to serve serious purposes (Broacasting our studies)

Nowadays, videogames are an important part of popular culture. Although videogames are most famous as leisure, the wave of " Serious Games " aims to use them for a wide range of serious purposes: teaching, communication, therapy, professional training, advertising, political propaganda… This thesis focuses on the design of such " Serious Games ". More specifically, we will try to identify means able to ease the creation of Serious Games. To achieve this goal, we will f [...]

Keywords : Serious Game, Game Design, creation, game creation toolkits, modding, videogames, constructionnism , pedagogy

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Designing and Evaluating Emotional Student Models for Game-Based Learning (Broacasting our studies)

AbstractResearch in game-based learning environments aims to recognise and show emotion. This chapter describes the main approaches and challenges involved in achieving these goals. In addition, we propose an emotional student model that can reason about students’ emotions using observable behaviour and responses to questions. Our model uses Control-Value Theory (Pekrun et al., The control value theory of achievement emotions. An integrative approach to emotions in education. In: Schutz, P [...]

Keywords : Computer Science, Computers and Education

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Playing to Learn: Are you Serious? A Theoretical Discussion of the Relationship Between (Video) Games and Learning (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract  This article offers a theoretical discussion of the relationship between video games and education. Based on both a literature review of this field and a study of players of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, this article presents the difficulties in the field of education of thinking of games as a space of learning and proposes various theoretical elements to address this issue. References (1): Michaud, L., & Alvarez, J. (2008). Serious games : Adverga [...]

Keywords : Games, Education, Online games, Video games

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Serious Games et apprentissage par projets (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : serious game, education, creation

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Classifying Serious Games: The G/P/S Model (Broacasting our studies)

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce an overall classification system for Serious Games. ?The intention of this classification is to guide people through the vast field of Serious Games by providing them with a general overview. For example, it may appeal to teachers who wish to find games with strong educational potential though they may be outside the “edugames” field. This chapter will start by discussing the definition of Serious Games, and define them as having a combinat [...]

Keywords : serious games, definition, classification

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Les jeux vidéos comme objet de recherche (Book reference)

This scientific book gathers contributions from 12 researchers, coming from different fields, who are studying different sides of videogames: identification of the Game Designer knowledge, using videogames in schools, space in videogames, how to dissect a videogame to analyze it, analysis of MMORPG as social spaces...N.B.: The members of Ludoscience wrote a chapter of this book, about "Serious Games".

Keywords : scientific research, education, sociology, computer science, geography

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Games And Learning Alliance (GALA) (Our projects)

The Games And Learning Alliance (GALA) is an European Network of Excellence gathering researchers and industrials from all over Europe involved in the field of Serious Games. GALA aims to shape the scientific community and build a European Virtual Research Centre aimed at gathering, integrating, harmonizing and coordinating research on Serious Games and disseminating knowledge, best practices and tools as a reference point at an international level. The other key focuses of the project are: the [...]

Keywords : serious game, europa, research network

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Application of Serious Games in Industrial Contexts (Broacasting our studies)

This chapter describes application areas for serious games in the context of such CNOs. A classification scheme for serious games has been developed based on two different approaches: one based on a process framework, the other one based on a game genome approach. Both are applied on a number of known serious games with the objective to identify uncovered areas and gaps. These gaps represent new opportunities for the application of serious games which has not yet been realized. References ( [...]

Keywords : Serious Game, Classification, Game genome approach, Virtual Organisation life cycle, Education, Industry

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The educational contribution of serious games (Broacasting our studies)

From the education 2010 show, the students of LDVTV proposed us a special show on the "serious games", broadcast live on Curiosphere.tv. In the present from this broadcast, Julien Llanas, Chargé de mission in the Academy of Créteil, and Julian Alvarez, researcher and designer of serious games in Ludoscience, specify the specificity of the educational contribution of serious games.   Acces to the vidéo

Keywords : Serious game, Education, Pedagogy

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