Abstract Learning about software modeling languages from documentation can be a difficult and confusing process, and many of the currently existing modeling language tutorials are only marginally better. At the same time, players of video games spend hours upon hours learning to play games that require mastering complex strategies and concepts, without losing motivation or interest. This success for motivating learning effort seen in many games, is in turn supporting an emerging trend of ed
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Mots-clés : Learning, Modeling, Games
Session de travail sur le serious gaming lors de la 6th Global Conference: Video Games Culture Project, du 17 au 19 Juillet 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, Royaume-Uni. SimCity en cours de géographie, Civilisation V pour une éducation à la non-violence, Read Dead Redemption pour aborder l’Histoire du far west, … Ces pratiques relèvent du « Serious gaming » : e
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Mots-clés : Serious game, Serious gaming, Appel à communication, Education, Projets étudiants, Etudes de cas, Level design, Modding
This paper treats serious games. Recently, one of the game genres called serious game has become popular, which has other purposes besides enjoyments like education, training and so on. Especially, learning games of the serious games seem very attractive for the age of video games so that the authors developed a mobile game for learning bacteriology as one of the achievements of their research project. In this paper, the authors introduce the game and show evaluated results about its learning ef
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Mots-clés : Serious games, Mobile learning, Educational contents, Bacteriology
Genre is an important feature for organizing and accessing video games. However, current descriptors of video game genres are unstandardized, undefined, and embedded with multiple information dimensions. This paper describes the development of a more complex and sophisticated scheme consisting of 12 facets and 358 foci for describing and representing video game genre information. Using facet analysis, the authors analyzed existing genre labels from scholarly, commercial, and popular sources, and
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Mots-clés : Genre, Jeu vidéo, Média Interactif, Facet analysis
Introduction The value of video games for learning is a controversial issue that has fueled numerous investigations since the first electronic games captivated generations of young people and children in the 80s (and Méndiz De Aguilera, 2004). While, initially, there were suspicions to believe that video games could be useful in education and training field currently, it is a widely shared by both researchers concept, for educators (Del Moral, 2010; Gros, 2009, Gros, 2000 Etxeberr&i
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Mots-clés : Jeux vidéo, Valeur ajoutée, Apprentissages
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
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
Abstract:Serious games are video games or computer games designed for training or educational purposes. Thanks to the interesting and useful opportunities that they provide such as interactivity, immersion, simulation they become well accepted and well spread among professional and academic fields. However, the selection of the most suitable serious games to a specific educational goal seems to be not well studied in the literature. This paper tries to meet this research gap by developing a new
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Mots-clés : Games, Training, Business, Biological system modeling, Educational institutions, Entertainment industry
The development of multiple web applications with features of video games gave way to a new trend called Gamification. However, there isn't a clear explanation that allows the connection of the elements of the game applications with non-game features, mainly in traditional highly regulated financial sector. The aim of this study is to investigate the acceptance of a business application Gamified in e-banking. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the results from an online survey of 18
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Mots-clés : Gamification, Game
In this paper, we propose an environment to support collaborative modding, as a new way to learn a subject. Modding can be defined as the activity to modify an existing game with dedicated tools. In a constructivist approach, we base our work on the assumption that modding a learning game can help learners to acquire the concepts of the subject concerned. We also think that modding in collaborative settings can help learners both to learn the subject and to learn to collaborate. We first propose
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Mots-clés : Modding game, Development kits, Learning game 2.0, Collaborative learning