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Some news froms Ludoscience (Blog post)

As you may have noticed, these last months have been quiet for Ludoscience. Don't worry, the lab is still running, it's just that we have all been so busy with our current projects, that nobody had the time to actually update the website! As these projects near completion, in the upcoming weeks we will have new projects to share with you, including... a new book written by all the Ludoscience members!  In the meantime, here is a selection of our activities during the last months: Our b [...]

Keywords : ludoscience, news, conferences

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Game-based Approach in e-Learning (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract: In this article a summary is made of the use of standard electronic game’s methods in e-learning. It shows how game-elements and game-mechanics can be applied in e-learning environments. Different types of Serious games – Game-based learning, Gamification of learning, Organizational-dynamic games, Simulation Games and Edutainment have been discussed. The article introduces the game-based model for learning and 70:20:10 education framework. There are examples for e-Lear [...]

Keywords : E-learning, Serious games, Game-based learning, Gamification, Game-based learning model

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Designing and Evaluating Simulation Games For Professional Project Management Education (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract Simulations and serious games are often considered to be efficient for professionals training. Experiential learning makes simulation a good pedagogical tool for educating working professionals. But the success of game based delivery depends on various factors such as the right blend of simulation and traditional theoretical lessons, concept and content of the simulation, link between the simulation and professional activities etc. Paper proposes a simple model representing links o [...]

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Game Learning Analytics: Learning Analytics for Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)

AbstractVideo games have become one of the largest entertainment industries, and their power to capture the attention of players worldwide soon prompted the idea of using games to improve education. However, these educational games, commonly referred to as serious games, face different challenges when brought into the classroom, ranging from pragmatic issues (e.g., a high development cost) to deeper educational issues, including a lack of understanding of how the students interact with the games [...]

Keywords : Serious games, Game learning analytics, Learning analytics, Game analytics, Educational standards

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Positive Psychology in Game Design: A Framework for Collaboration (Broacasting our studies)

ABSTRACT With more than 1.5 billion gamers around the world as of the end of 2015, with further growth projected as mobile devices achieve greater market penetration, there has been a great deal of interest in using games for purposes beyond entertainment. However, gamification and serious games often fail to engage prospective users, generate commercial interest, or meet long­term objectives, due to mismatched expectations, failures in communication, and lack of understanding of design [...]

Keywords : Well­Being Theory, Game Design, Inter­Professional Collaboration, Psycholog

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NL & Fr Meeting around Serious Game and opportunities (Broacasting our studies)

Rencontres Business Pays Bas – Cité de la Mode et du Design (Paris)publié le 3 mars 2016 dans Evénement partenaireLe 11/03/2016A l’occasion de la visite d’Etat du Roi et de la Reine des Pays-Bas, l’Ambassade des Pays-Bas organise le 11 mars prochain une rencontre entre entreprises françaises et hollandaises à la Cité de la Mode et du Design à Paris et vous invite à y participer.Dévelop [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Economy, Business, Parternership

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Correspondances et contrastes entre jeux traditionnels et jeux numériques (Broacasting our studies)

Progressively, a kind of paradox is created through the scientific literature related to the game and play fields. The number of works dedicated only to video games conceals gradually the works dedicated to traditional games, although there are always strong links between those two kinds of games. It seems thus clear that a mutual lighting should make us wonder about the singularity or complementarities of the two areas. We propose to look at some of these existing links and contrasts between tr [...]

Keywords : video game, tabletop game, board game, Serious games, Gameplay, Play, e-sport

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Critical elements underpinning the emergence of the medical game ecosystem: gamifying traumatic brain injury rehabilitation in Finland (Broacasting our studies)

The healthcare sector is currently in the verge of a reform and thus, the medical game research provide an interesting area of research. The aim of this study is to explore the critical elements underpinning the emergence of the medical game ecosystem with three sub-objectives: (1) to seek who are the key actors involved in the medical game ecosystem and identify their needs, (2) to scrutinise what types of resources are required in medical game development and what types of relationships are ne [...]

Keywords : Medical games, Health games, Health technology, Service ecosystems approach

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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

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Analysis of serious games based on pedagogical features and proposal of civil defence training game (Broacasting our studies)

AbstractThis paper focuses on the analysis of serious games. We analysed and evaluated serious games, and particularly their training aspect, based on the classification method of Djaouti et al. (2011b). Further, we evaluated existing training games and based on the results developed a civil defence training game for Korea. The game has been designed to train professional civil defence personnel based on pedagogical features of serious games for training. This research can serve as the groundwor [...]

Keywords : Serious games, Pedagogical features, Civil defence training, Training games, Game-based training, Safety education

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