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Digital Educational Games: Methodologies for Evaluating the Impact of Game Type (Broacasting our studies)
The main research question addressed in this thesis is how the choice of game type influences the success of digital educational games (DEG), where success is defined as significant knowledge gain in combination with positive player experience. Games differ in type if they differ at least by one game feature. As a first step we identified a comprehensive set of unique game features, summarised in the Game Elements-Attributes Model (GEAM), where elements are the defining components that all games [...]Keywords : digital educational games (DEG), Game Elements-Attributes Model (GEAM), Video Games, Classification
Pix'n Love HS #1 - PlayStation VS Saturn : La guerre des 32 bits (Book reference)
This book details the history of two legendary game consoles, both released in 1994. The 300 pages are divided in two parts. The first part tells with great details the history of the PlayStation, and the making of its 10 most popular games (Wipeout, Tekken, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid…). The second half is dedicated to the history of the Saturn and 10 of its best titles (Nights, Guardian Heroes, Grandia, Panzer Dragoon, Daytona USA…). Despite already abundant [...]Keywords : saturn, playstation, history, sony, sega, wipeout, virtua fighter, 32 bits
PlayStation VS Saturn : La guerre des 32 bits (Broacasting our studies)
This book details the history of two legendary game consoles, both released in 1994. The 300 pages are divided in two parts. The first part tells with great details the history of the PlayStation, and the making of its 10 most popular games (Wipeout, Tekken, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid…). The second half is dedicated to the history of the Saturn and 10 of its best titles (Nights, Guardian Heroes, Grandia, Panzer Dragoon, Daytona USA…). Despite already abun [...]Keywords : playstation, saturn, history
A Tale of Two Cities: A Multimodal Analysis of the Figurative Expressions about City in Picture Books (Broacasting our studies)
Realizing the significant role that city plays in the development of human civilization, the influence it brings to people’s life in the modern society, as well as its absence in fields other than architecture, urban design, and urban planning, this research aims to study the multimodal metaphorical manifestations of civic imagery in picture books from a cognitive linguistic point of view. Relying on the Visual-Verbal Multimodal Metaphor Identification Procedure (VVMMIP) constructed by us [...]Keywords : Multimodal metaphor, Metonymy, City, Picture books, Visual-Verbal Multimodal Metaphor Identification P, Magic surrealism, Multimodal Metaphorical Scenario Chain Reaction
Muzeum w XXI wieku. Między rzeczywistością a wirtualnym światem (Museum of the XXI century. Between virtual world and reality) (Broacasting our studies)
The turn of the 20th and 21st centuries was a time of significant social and economical transformations. The progressive technologizing of our lives and the development of the information society impacted on the intensive cultural transformations. In the face of this new economic reality and the free‑market intense competition on the field of cultural offers, many institutions had to comprehensively reorganize their activities to meet the needs and expect [...]Keywords : Culture, Technology, Media, Museum
Review of the Use of AI Techniques in Serious Games: Decision making and Machine Learning (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:The video-games market has become an established and ever-growing global industry. The health of the video and computer games industry, together with the variety of genres and technologies available, mean that videogame concepts and programmes are being applied in numerous different disciplines. One of these is the field known as serious games. The main goal of this article is to collect all the relevant articles published during the last decade and create a trend analysis about the use [...]Keywords : Games, Artificial intelligence, Decision making, Market research, Algorithm design and analysis, Decision trees, Industries
Playing in 7D An Action-Oriented Framework for Video Games (Broacasting our studies)
Grounded on a perspective in which action is a defining trait in video games, this work proposes the development of an action-oriented framework focused on the analysis of the relationships between the player and the game system centred on the existence of actors, which we define as entities responsible for the actions that affect the game – a category in which the player and the game system are included. We describe the grounding principles of this framework as focused on a transformation [...]Keywords : Action, Chronology, Responsiveness, Thinking and Actuation, Transcoding, Video Games, Design, Depth
Entertaining the similarities and distinctions between serious games and virtual heritage projects (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract This article summarizes past definitions of entertainment, serious games and virtual heritage in order to discuss whether virtual heritage has particular problems not directly addressed by conventional serious games. For virtual heritage, typical game-style entertainment poses particular ethical problems, especially around the simulation of historic violence and the possible trivialization of culturally sensitive and significant material. While virtual heritage can be considered to [...]Keywords : Entertainment, Virtual heritage, Authenticity, Violence, Interaction design
Jogos sérios para reabilitação cognitiva (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract Rehabilitation can be defined as a process devised in response to unplanned life changes imposed by diseases or traumatic accidents. Cognitive rehabilitation is a form of therapy, focused on restoring functions that remain partially intact, applied to people with some form of cognitive impairment such as memory loss. The problem of traditional approaches is the lack of motivation and lack of interest of patients to perform repetitive tasks. This is where the concept of serious game [...]Keywords : Serious games, Rehabilitation, Cognitive rehabilitation, NUI, Games