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Student participation in serious games design
Serious games can be defined simply as games with an educational intent. These games are regularly positioned within a curriculum as simple teaching agents and often lack meaningful participation from learners in their development. In 1992, Roger Hart proposed a model for the roles children play in …
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Serious games for improved defense contracting
… within technical domains. These so-called "serious games" are designed for purposes outside of pure entertainment and are intended to help researchers engage with qualitative data that focuses on human behavior. This thesis focuses on a research game called ColumBID which was designed for …
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Adaptive serious games for computer science education
Serious games have the potential to effectively engage students to learn, however, these games tend to struggle accommodating learners with diverse abilities and needs. Furthermore, customizing a serious game to the individual learner has historically required a great deal of effort on the part of …
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Evaluating scaffolding in serious games with children
… and fading. Research work on scaffolding in serious games – games with other purposes other than entertainment, has mainly focused on diagnosis and calibration often referred to in this field as player modelling and adaptivity respectively. There is barely any empirical study investigating …
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Emergent Futures: Exploring Energy Transition Choices Through Serious Games
… and uncertainties. Research indicates that serious games are increasingly employed to support this integrated planning challenge. This study contributes to the knowledge on this topic through an integrated literature review, case study analysis, and focus groups comprising of representative …
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A conceptual framework for serious games and its validation
… a conceptual framework for the design of serious games and uses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) for its validation. An initial study identified 12 attributes of educational serious games that can be used to support effective learning. These attributes are used in the conceptual …
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Serious games in teaching computer programming: usage and evaluation
… among other modules.<br/><br/><br/>The use of serious games or game-based learning for teaching computer programming has been used frequently to help overcome the difficulties. But there were no standards or guidelines to be followed to apply this method of teaching and most importantly the …
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Serious Games for Cyber Security - A New General Design Framework
… raising the awareness of the general population, serious games appear to be a promising solution to the task. However, only a small portion of serious games in this field are designed with this goal in mind and several studies on the pedagogical effectiveness of serious games highlight a large …
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Use of Fantasy in Serious Games to Assist Physical Rehabilitation
… how to keep the user engaged with the exercises. Serious games are being used in the recovery process related to health. Fantasy in games is also important in keeping the user engaged and motivated to play the game repeatedly. In this respect, in this research, fantasy elements are incorporated …
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Designing Mnemonics Serious Games to Promote Knowledge Retention in Memory-Intensive Courses
… the need to incorporate mnemonics-based games in memory-intensive courses to promote long-term learning.
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Enhancing Deeper Learning Using Empathy and Creativity In Role-Playing Serious Games
… by educators in harnessing the power of digital games and transferring it in education by designing Serious games. Serious Games are digital games designed to support learning, training, skill acquisition, and social and behavioural change. Serious Games integrate game design elements and …
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DESIGNING SERIOUS GAMES FOR HABILITATION AND LEARNING - FROM EAR TRAINING TO SINGING
Serious games are those designed for purposes other than pure entertainment. In scenarios where traditional applications are less attractive to users due to their lack of fun factors, serious games comes for the rescue by transforming boring and tedious tasks into enjoyable experiences. We propose …
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Η αξιοποίηση των σοβαρών παιχνιδιών (serious games) στη διδασκαλία μαθητών με δυσλεξία
Η παρούσα αρθρογραφική ανασκόπηση διερευνά την αποτελεσματικότητα των σοβαρών παιχνιδιών στη διδασκαλία μαθητών με δυσλεξία, με στόχο την αποτίμηση της παιδαγωγικής τους αξίας και της συμβολής τους στην ενίσχυση βασικών γνωστικών και μεταγνωστικών δεξιοτήτων. Για τον σκοπό αυτόν αναλύθηκαν δεκαέξι …
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A Model-Driven Framework to Support Games Development: An Application to Serious Games
… The application of this approach into games development domain presents an interesting proposition and could help to simplify production of computer games.Computer games are interactive entertainment software designed and developed to engage users to participate in goal-directed play. …
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Using serious games to prime safety students for occupational noise exposure risk assessment
… Consequently, AssessVR was redesigned as a serious game. In the second study, the gamified AssessVR was used to prime students before they engaged in the risk assessment with a non-gamified, AssessVR. An additional group of students was primed with a non-gamified AssessVR as a benchmark or …
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MODULAR FRAMEWORK FOR SERIOUS GAMES AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS
The combination of Serious Games and the Internet of Things is a recent academic domain of research. By combining the software and gaming advantages of Serious Games with the interconnected hardware and middleware driven ecosystem of the Internet of Things, it is possible to develop data-driven …
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Análisis de eventos para evaluar competencias en experiencias de aprendizaje basadas en serious games
… Las experiencias de aprendizaje basadas en serious games han tomado relevancia en los últimos años gracias al crecimiento de la industria del videojuego. Los serious games o videojuegos educativos son videojuegos con propósitos para el aprendizaje. Jugando en estos entornos, los jugadores …
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"Now Imagine You're One of Them": Using Serious Games to Induce Identification with Out-Groups
… particularly through the use of online games. <em>Spent</em> is an online, point-and-click game that places users in the role of the working poor. <em>Spent</em> was used to test the potential of serious or prosocial games to increase players’ identification with a group of people who …
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Gamification: Game-based Learning / Serious Games and 21st Century Soft Skill Development in Nursing Education
… gamification, game-based learning (GBL), and serious games in nursing education in institutions of higher education in the United States. This paper reviews the history of gamification in nursing pedagogy through three domains of research. It includes an overview of research related to the …
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An Analysis of Serious Games and Their Role in Developing Self-Regulation Skills in Young People
… many without access to help. The use of digital games as an additional modality for the treatment and management of mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions experienced by young people is not new, however, few examples of serious games for the prevention of mental health conditions were …
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