Background: Serious games are computer or video games that contain elements that are specifically designed for the purpose of education or training. Serious games are increasingly being used within healthcare, but their introduction into and application in psychotherapeutic settings as an e-mental health treatment modality raises questions for both patients and therapists. Current research demonstrates the potential role and effectiveness of serious games within a psychotherapeutic context.
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Mots-clés : e-mental health, patients' and therapists' viewpoint, psychotherapy, serious games
AbstractThis article summarises our Ph.D. thesis – an analytical view on the player-game relationship through the lens of an action-oriented framework, centred on fundamental entities defined as actors, entities through which action is enacted in the game and of which the player and the game system are a part of. With this in mind, the grounding principles of this framework are seeded in a transition of action into experience, based on communicational systems that structure the dynamic for
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Mots-clés : Action, chronologie, Design, transcodage, Jeux vidéo
Résumé : The article is dedicated to trending topic on gamifi cation of education. Nowadays video games and game technologies are important parts of modern educational technologies. The aim of the study is to develop mechanism for determining the possibility of using video game mechanics in gamifi cation. The authors described the classifi cation of video games and game mechanics based on literature review of English and Russian authors. The new evaluation method based on the
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Mots-clés : Gamification, Education, Genre jeu vidéo, Classification, Mécanique de jeux, Gameplay, Méthode d'évaluation, Etat de Flow
Introduction au numéro spécial « Évaluation dans les jeux sérieux » Editorial Pierre-André CARON (Université Lille 1, CIREL), Sébastien GEORGE (Université du Maine, LIUM), Julian ALVAREZ (Université Lille 1, CIREL) 1. Introduction et contexte du numéro spécialDepuis 2002, les jeux sérieux suscitent un engouement croissant par les
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Jeux Sérieux, Evaluation
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
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Mots-clés : Action, chronologie, Jeux vidéo, transcodage, Design, Réflexion et action, Transversal, Réactivité
RésuméCette thèse propose des modèles, méthodes et outils destinés aux game designers de jeux thérapeutiques. Le problème de conception le plus fondamental des jeux thérapeutiques est le gameplay, c'est-à-dire des objectifs de jeu et des actions que le joueur doit effectuer pour atteindre ces objectifs. Dans un jeu thérapeutique, le gameplay doit à la fois produire l'effet thérapeutique et motiver le patie
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Gameplay, Health game, Santé, jeux thérapeutiques
Abstract: Serious games are part of the new emerging world of education environment that is based on sophisticated technology with elements of entertainment. They have been seen as good supplements for supporting the learning processes due to their capability to increase visualisations and challenge the student creativity. They have the potential to significantly improve training and education activities and initiatives. As a part of serious computer games, business simulation games support
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Mots-clés : Serious Games, Business Simulation Games, e-learning, Problem-Based Learning, Education
The existing common video game genres lack clarity as well as consistency and thus cannot serve as a solid reference to inform the research on digital educational games (DEG), which are increasingly used as learning tools. To address this basic issue of game classification, we have developed a web-based survey to collect data on how people play and perceive video games that they know well. The survey is grounded in our Game Elements-Attributes Model (GEAM). 321 valid responses were analysed usin
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Mots-clés : digital educational games (DEG), Jeux numériques éducatifs, Jeux éducatifs, Genre, Jeux vidéo, Apprentissage, Classification, Education
In this paper we investigate the possibility how to enable transfer of meaningful game information between different video games. We explore the benefits of ontologies as a solution to this problem, and present an initial version of Game Ontology, a first step towards achieving interoperability between games. Références (1) : D. Djaouti, J. Alvarez, J. Jessel, G. Methel, and P. Molinier. Towards a classification of video games. In Artificial and Ambient Intelligence conve
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Mots-clés : Game, Video game, Ontology
There are currently a number of models, frameworks and methodologies for serious games analysis and design that provide useful interpretations of the possibilities and limitations offered by serious games. However, these tools focus mostly on high-level aspects and requirements and do not help understand how such high-level requirements can be concretely satisfied. In this paper, we present a conceptual model, called Activity Theory-based Model of Serious Games (ATMSG), that aims to fill this ga
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Mots-clés : Serious games, Educational serious games, Serious games analysis, Serious games design, Activity theory