At the dawn of a new digital era, people`s way of spending their leisure time and leisure activity preferences changed. Accordingly, Leisure culture is in the midst of change, such as watching movie and performance, enjoy golf etc. Due to its nature as an interactive medium, the digital game offers uniquely different approaches to the leisure activity. Leisure as state of mind is much more subjective in that it considers the individual`s perception of an activity. In that regard, we used the dig
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Digital game
Cela faisait quelques temps que nous n'avions pas mis à jour la section qui regroupe nos supports de cours, je viens donc d'y rajouter 5 nouveaux supports de cours relatifs aux jeux vidéo : Une vue d'ensemble de l'histoire du jeu vidéo (de 1952 à 2013). Un panorama des différents métiers du jeu vidéo (de l'industrie des jeux AAA aux indés en passant par les journalistes).Une nouvelle version de notre support de cours sur les t
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Mots-clés : support de cours, jeux vidéo, histoire, métiers, théorie de Game Design, structure d'un jeu
Un cours portant sur des théories utilisées en Game Design, notamment pour tenter de comprendre ce qui pousse un joueur à jouer. Présente notamment les concepts de jeux d'émergence et de progression (Jesper Juul), la notion de Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) et celle de Fun (Raph Koster). -= Support de cours =- (Format Flash - cliquez dans le coté gauche ou droit de la fenêtre pour faire défiler les slides) Tél&ea
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Mots-clés : game design, théories, fun, flow, level design
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
In this document we present proposals for merging the fictional game world with the real world taking into account the profile of casual players. To merge games with reality we resorted to the creation of games that explore diverse real world elements. We focused on sound, video, physiological data, accelerometer data, weather and location. We made the choice for these real world elements because data, about those elements, can be acquired making use of functionality already available, or forese
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Mots-clés : Casual games, Pervasive games, Sound, Video, Physiological data, Electrodermal activity, Accelerometer, Weather
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
Abstract Social, economic and global changes make it difficult to predict what the future might hold. Creativity is one possible response to these changes. Indeed, creative skills enable students to face the complex nature of life. As a result, creativity has become significant in education, and is regarded as an important objective to be addressed in the curriculum. Nevertheless, creativity is not always promoted in schools. Rather, there are those who claim that many educational systems hinder
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Mots-clés : Creativité, Game-Based Learning, Game design
In this paper we proposed a gamification methodology for Korean language education. We suggested gamification elements that increased the fun factor and induced immersion by analyzing the successful gamification cases which can be classified into three types; management, Implementation, and self-expression. Then, we analyzed Korean learning theory and methods to extract four key aspects, listening, speaking, vocabulary and culture from eight Korean learning function. Finally, by using Korean Wav
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Mots-clés : Korean wave, Korean language, Korean learning, Gamification, Game, Education, Learning
Crisis management, serious games (SG) are more and more used for training. SG permit to reduce the cost of a such training and saving time, and in general provide a fun way to learn. In this paper we propose to bring together SG and Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) in the context of the SIMFOR project, a SG for training in crisis management. We discuss the problems and needs of serious games and an overview of existing works. To enhance the learning aspect in SG, we propose the integration of
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Mots-clés : Collaborative agent-based architecture, Intelligent tutoring systems, Serious Game, Crisis management training, Multiagent integration architecture, Training cost reduction, Time savings, SIMFOR project
An introduction to the exciting world of Serious Games The month of November IUM recently played host to none other than renowned researcher and consultant Dr. Julian Alvarez who was presenting a lecture to students on Serious Games and Game Technologies. He talked to students of the course Fundamentals of communication and advertising which is overseen by Professor MN. Jauffret-Cervetti. He mesmerized the students with the technology behind Advergames, Edumarket games and
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Communication, Advergames, Gamification, Edumarket games, Conference