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How to Analyse Therapeutic Games: The Player / Game / Therapy Model (Diffusion de nos travaux)

In this paper, we present a new model to analyse therapeutic games. The goal of the model is to describe and analyse the relations between the three aspects of a therapeutic game: the player, the game, and the therapy. The model is intended to game designers. It is a tool to improve the communication between health experts and game designers, and to evaluate the game design coherency of therapeutic games. It also helps to analyse existing games to discover relevant features. The model is built w [...]

Mots-clés : Video games, Evaluation, Analysis, Model, Game design, Serious games, Therapeutic

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Designing and Evaluating Emotional Student Models for Game-Based Learning (Diffusion de nos travaux)

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 [...]

Mots-clés : Computer Science, Computers and Education

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On the core elements of the experience of playing video games (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractThis dissertation presents a multi-method approach to study the user experience of playing video games. The motivation is to devise an objective assessment of the concept of user experience. It is proposed that user experience is better understood when it is studied as a two fold phenomenon formed by a process and an outcome. This definition allows the combination of the subjective nature of experience together with the objectivity needed to propose an objective assessment of experi [...]

Mots-clés : User experience, Jeu vidéo, Gaming experience, Expérience de jeu, Métaphore

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