This paper describes the development currently being conducted into serious games which pursue some form of benefit in the field of health care. Although serious games are associated with software developments, developing them in the area of health care involves studying the associated multimedia technology and paying attention to aspects related to interaction with the game. Serious games for health cover matters related to education and medical treatment, rehabilitation and psychological treat
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Mots-clés : Games, Computers, Educational institutions, Mixers, Medical treatment
Research on digital game-based learning indicates that this learning method can be - under certain conditions - more efficient than other traditional teaching methods, such as textbooks, or web-based learning. Without additional support learning from games may or may not occur, this is why instructional support should be used in educational settings. The present study focuses on testing with feedback as a type of instructional support with great promise. Testing is widely used in almost all clas
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Mots-clés : Digital game-based learning, Learning from games, Testing, Feedback
Ce livre vise à mettre en avant le potentiel des jeux vidéo, dans leur ensemble, pour l'apprentissage scolaire. Les 250 pages de l'ouvrage sont divisées en 10 chapitres autonomes, qui abordent chacun une question spécifique. Par exemple, un chapitre s'appuie sur la saga Final Fantasy pour évoquer la dimension artistique du jeu vidéo, tandis qu'un autre présente une expérimentation menée en classe avec les jeux et les films Harry Pott
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Mots-clés : education, jeu video, classe, theorie
Décrochage scolaire : comment revenir dans le jeu ?Tabou en France, l’échec scolaire, est pourtant un sujet préoccupant pour beaucoup d'enseignants. Des mesures sont mises en place par le Gouvernement, mais une autre piste se dessine, celle de la gamification... Comment les jeux vidéos éducatifs peuvent-ils être utilisés pour lutter contre l'échec scolaire ? Quelques pistes d’action et de réflexion avec Yasmine Kasbi
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Décrochage, Ecole, Education, Jeu sérieux, Jeu, Echec scolaire
The recognition of facial expressions is important for the perception of emotions. Understanding emotions is essential in human communication and social interaction. Children with autism have been reported to exhibit deficits in the recognition of affective expressions. Their difficulties in understanding and expressing emotions leads to inappropriate behavior derived from their inability to interact adequately with other people. Those deficits seem to be rather permanent in individuals with aut
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Mots-clés : Autism, Facial emotion recognition, Gestures, Kinect, NUI
Participation à l'organisation du congrès AREF 2013.
Mots-clés : aref 2013, organisation
CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL) on Learning Analytics in Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments and CoursesThere has been much interest of late in ‘big data’ and the role it can play in decision making in diverse areas of business, science and entertainment. By employing a combination of modern artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics techniques, extremely large and complex data sets can be ‘mined&
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Mots-clés : appel à communication, revue
Abstract Serious games have been receiving a lot of interest in the recent years and have been increasingly used for educational, military and business purposes. One of the positive sides of serious games is the fact of being tools that allow the creation of an environment where players are immersed in a playful activity, and are much more receptive to knowledge acquisition. Through serious games players are more likely to retain information for a longer period of time. The terrain instabil
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Les 4 et 5 juin 2013 s'est tenu le salon E-virtuoses, dédié au serious game et à tous ses usages. Julian Alvarez, chercheur au Play research lab, laboratoire R&D de la CCI Grand Hainaut et enseignant à l’université Lille 1, revient sur un concept clé pour l'enseignement supérieur, le serious gaming. A l'heure où la question de l’innovation pédagogique est de plus en plus présente dans l
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Mots-clés : Serious game, Etudiant, Education, Contextualisation, Jeux, Serious gaming
ABSTRACT From the perspective of educators, games are viewed as a medium in which the younger generation both thrive and excel. Students navigate game environments with ease and regularly solve problems, engage in advanced collaborative efforts, and communicate complex concepts and strategies to one another during their private gaming sessions at home. Games invite the player to form an understanding of intricate systems and mechanics based on participation and experimentation rather than m
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Mots-clés : Education, Serious Game