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Serious Games

Author : Ute Ritterfeld
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135848904
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Serious Games written by Ute Ritterfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the real world. "Serious games" is defined herein as any form of interactive computer-based game software for one or multiple players to be used on any platform and that has been developed to provide more than entertainment to players. With this volume, the editors address the gap in exisiting scholarship on gaming, providing an academic overview on the mechanisms and effects of serious games. Contributors investigate the psychological mechanisms that take place not only during gaming, but also in game selection, persistent play, and gaming impact. The work in this collection focuses on the desirable outcomes of digital game play. The editors distinguish between three possible effects -- learning, development, and change -- covering a broad range of serious games’ potential impact. Contributions from internationally recognized scholars focus on five objectives: Define the area of serious games Elaborate on the underlying theories that explain suggested psychological mechanisms elicited through serious game play, addressing cognitive, affective and social processes Summarize the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of serious games, Introduce innovative research methods as a response to methodological challenges imposed through interactive media Discuss the possibilities and limitations of selected applications for educational purposes. Anchored primarily in social science research, the reader will be introduced to approaches that focus on the gaming process and the users’ experiences. Additional perspectives will be provided in the concluding chapters, written from non-social science approaches by experts in academic game design and representatives of the gaming industry. The editors acknowledge the necessity for a broader interdisciplinary study of the phenomena and work to overcome the methodological divide in games research to look ahead to a more integrated and interdisciplinary study of digital games. This timely and singular volume will appeal to scholars, researchers, and graduate students working in media entertainment and game studies in the areas of education, media, communication, and psychology.

Serious Games on the Move

Author : Otto Petrovic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783211094174
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Serious Games on the Move written by Otto Petrovic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings to "Serious Games on the Move 08" will contain all results of this conference on game software applications that are designed to do more than entertain. The focus of the contents lie on research results and developments in the rapidly moving field of serious games and their potential use in education and training as well as in the presentation of several showcases. The proceedings will address the following three topics: 1. Designing serious games: This topic will include innovations in the design of serious games, in particular games for use in education and training environments. 2. Embedding serious games and virtual worlds within learning programmes: Original research papers and case studies that investigate the potential for integration of serious games and virtual worlds within programmes of education and training will be the core content of this theme. 3. Tools, technologies and platforms: Under this topic the proceedings will provide information relating to serious games technologies.

Serious Games on the Move

Author : Otto Petrovic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783211100899
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Serious Games on the Move written by Otto Petrovic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings to "Serious Games on the Move 08" will contain all results of this conference on game software applications that are designed to do more than entertain. The focus of the contents lie on research results and developments in the rapidly moving field of serious games and their potential use in education and training as well as in the presentation of several showcases. The proceedings will address the following three topics: 1. Designing serious games: This topic will include innovations in the design of serious games, in particular games for use in education and training environments. 2. Embedding serious games and virtual worlds within learning programmes: Original research papers and case studies that investigate the potential for integration of serious games and virtual worlds within programmes of education and training will be the core content of this theme. 3. Tools, technologies and platforms: Under this topic the proceedings will provide information relating to serious games technologies.

Serious Games

Author : Clark C. Abt
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819161482
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Serious Games written by Clark C. Abt and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores the ways in which games can be used to instruct and inform as well as provide pleasure. He uses innovative approaches to problem solving through individualized game techniques.

Serious Games

Author : Ralf Dörner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319406124
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Serious Games written by Ralf Dörner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides an introduction to the fundamentals of serious games, which differ considerably from computer games that are meant for pure entertainment. Undergraduate and graduate students from various disciplines who want to learn about serious games are one target group of this book. Prospective developers of serious games are another, as they can use the book for self-study in order to learn about the distinctive features of serious game design and development. And ultimately, the book also addresses prospective users of serious game technologies by providing them with a solid basis for judging the advantages and limitations of serious games in different application areas such as game-based learning, training and simulation or games for health. To cater to this heterogeneous readership and wide range of interests, every effort was made to make the book flexible to use. All readers are expected to study Chapter 1, as it provides the necessary basics and terminology that will be used in all subsequent chapters. The eleven chapters that follow cover the creation of serious games (design, authoring processes and tools, content production), the runtime context of serious games (game engines, adaptation mechanisms, game balancing, game mastering, multi-player serious games), the effects of serious games and their evaluation (player experience, assessment techniques, performance indicators), and serious games in practice (economic aspects, cost-benefit analysis, serious game distribution). To familiarize the readers with best practice in this field, the final chapter presents more than 30 selected examples of serious games illustrating their characteristics and showcasing their practical use. Lecturers can select chapters in a sequence that is most suitable for their specific course or seminar. The book includes specific suggestions for courses such as “Introduction to Serious Games”, “Entertainment Technology”, “Serious Game Design”, “Game-based Learning”, and “Applications of Serious Games”.

Serious Games Analytics

Author : Christian Sebastian Loh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319058347
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Serious Games Analytics written by Christian Sebastian Loh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together research on how gameplay data in serious games may be turned into valuable analytics or actionable intelligence for performance measurement, assessment, and improvement. Chapter authors use empirical research methodologies, including existing, experimental, and emerging conceptual frameworks, from various fields, such as: computer science software engineering educational data mining statistics information visualization. Serious games is an emerging field where the games are created using sound learning theories and instructional design principles to maximize learning and training success. But how would stakeholders know what play-learners have done in the game environment, and if the actions performance brings about learning? Could they be playing the game for fun, really learning with evidence of performance improvement, or simply gaming the system, i.e., finding loopholes to fake that they are making progress? This volume endeavors to answer these questions.

Serious Games and Edutainment Applications

Author : Minhua Ma
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319516450
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Serious Games and Edutainment Applications written by Minhua Ma and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the continued application of gaming for training and education, which has seen exponential growth over the past two decades, this book offers an insightful introduction to the current developments and applications of game technologies within educational settings, with cutting-edge academic research and industry insights, providing a greater understanding into current and future developments and advances within this field. Following on from the success of the first volume in 2011, researchers from around the world presents up-to-date research on a broad range of new and emerging topics such as serious games and emotion, games for music education and games for medical training, to gamification, bespoke serious games, and adaptation of commercial off-the shelf games for education and narrative design, giving readers a thorough understanding of the advances and current issues facing developers and designers regarding games for training and education. This second volume of Serious Games and Edutainment Applications offers further insights for researchers, designers and educators who are interested in using serious games for training and educational purposes, and gives game developers with detailed information on current topics and developments within this growing area.

Handbook of Research on Serious Games for Educational Applications

Author : Zheng, Robert
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522505148
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Serious Games for Educational Applications written by Zheng, Robert and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Games have been part of the entertainment industry for decades. Once only considered viable for personal entertainment, virtual gaming media is now being explored as a useful tool for learning and student engagement. The Handbook of Research on Serious Games for Educational Applications presents a comprehensive examination of the implementation of gaming in classroom settings and the cognitive benefits this integration presents. Highlighting theoretical, psychological, instructional design, and teaching perspectives, this book is a pivotal reference source for researchers, educators, professionals, and academics interested in the innovative opportunities of game-based learning.

Serious Game Design and Development: Technologies for Training and Learning

Author : Cannon-Bowers, Jan
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1615207406
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Serious Game Design and Development: Technologies for Training and Learning written by Cannon-Bowers, Jan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an increasing use of vido games in various disciplines within the scientific community, this book seeks to understand the nature of effective games and to provide guidance for how best to harness the power of gaming technology to successfully accomplish a more serious goal"--Provided by publisher.

Psychology, Pedagogy, and Assessment in Serious Games

Author : Connolly, Thomas M.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466647744
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Book Synopsis Psychology, Pedagogy, and Assessment in Serious Games by : Connolly, Thomas M.

Download or read book Psychology, Pedagogy, and Assessment in Serious Games written by Connolly, Thomas M. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book addresses issues the potential of games to support learning and change behaviour offering empirical evidence pertaining to the effectiveness of Serious Games in the key areas of psychology, pedagogy, and assessment"--

Entertainment Computing and Serious Games

Author : Erik van der Spek
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030346447
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Entertainment Computing and Serious Games written by Erik van der Spek and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First IFIP TC 14 Joint International Conference on Entertainment Computing and Serious Games, ICEC-JCSG 2019, held in Arequipa, Peru, in November 2019. The 26 full papers, 5 short papers, and 16 poster, demonstration, and workshop papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. They cover a large range of topics at the multidisciplinary intersection of design, art, entertainment, interaction, computing, psychology, and numerous serious application domains. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: mixed reality; virtual reality; entertainment algorithms; game design and development; interaction technologies; measurement and effects; and serious game applications.

Handbook of Research on Serious Games as Educational, Business and Research Tools

Author : Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466601507
Total Pages : 1434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Serious Games as Educational, Business and Research Tools written by Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents research on the most recent technological developments in all fields of knowledge or disciplines of computer games development, including planning, design, development, marketing, business management, users and behavior"--Provided by publisher.

Clinical Rehabilitation Experience Utilizing Serious Games

Author : Michael Lawo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658219572
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Clinical Rehabilitation Experience Utilizing Serious Games written by Michael Lawo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book emerged out of research done during the period between 2004 and 2016 on the topic of mobile and wearable computing. It did not solely focus on technical solutions and the search for a general approach but also on the question how people can live with this technology. Thus social and organizational aspects were also part of the research. The findings demonstrate the opportunities of serious games and reveal the need of clinical studies when targeting at solutions that are to become part of any kind of therapy. The result is a comprehensive presentation of research findings covering different important aspects in the domain of wearable and pervasive computing for a better life.

Interdisciplinary Models and Tools for Serious Games: Emerging Concepts and Future Directions

Author : Van Eck, Richard
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1615207201
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis Interdisciplinary Models and Tools for Serious Games: Emerging Concepts and Future Directions by : Van Eck, Richard

Download or read book Interdisciplinary Models and Tools for Serious Games: Emerging Concepts and Future Directions written by Van Eck, Richard and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book discusses the need for interdisciplinary awareness in the study of games and learning"--Provided by publisher.

Persuasive Games

Author : Ian Bogost
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262261944
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Persuasive Games written by Ian Bogost and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in terms of their computational properties. Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and influence players. Drawing on the 2,500-year history of rhetoric, the study of persuasive expression, Bogost analyzes rhetoric's unique function in software in general and videogames in particular. The field of media studies already analyzes visual rhetoric, the art of using imagery and visual representation persuasively. Bogost argues that videogames, thanks to their basic representational mode of procedurality (rule-based representations and interactions), open a new domain for persuasion; they realize a new form of rhetoric. Bogost calls this new form "procedural rhetoric," a type of rhetoric tied to the core affordances of computers: running processes and executing rule-based symbolic manipulation. He argues further that videogames have a unique persuasive power that goes beyond other forms of computational persuasion. Not only can videogames support existing social and cultural positions, but they can also disrupt and change these positions themselves, leading to potentially significant long-term social change. Bogost looks at three areas in which videogame persuasion has already taken form and shows considerable potential: politics, advertising, and learning.

Power Play

Author : Asi Burak
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250089344
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Power Play written by Asi Burak and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenal growth of gaming has inspired plenty of hand-wringing since its inception--from the press, politicians, parents, and everyone else concerned with its effect on our brains, bodies, and hearts. But what if games could be good, not only for individuals but for the world? In Power Play, Asi Burak and Laura Parker explore how video games are now pioneering innovative social change around the world. As the former executive director and now chairman of Games for Change, Asi Burak has spent the last ten years supporting and promoting the use of video games for social good, in collaboration with leading organizations like the White House, NASA, World Bank, and The United Nations. The games for change movement has introduced millions of players to meaningful experiences around everything from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the US Constitution. Power Play looks to the future of games as a global movement. Asi Burak and Laura Parker profile the luminaries behind some of the movement's most iconic games, including former Supreme Court judge Sandra Day O’Connor and Pulitzer-Prize winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. They also explore the promise of virtual reality to address social and political issues with unprecedented immersion, and see what the next generation of game makers have in store for the future.

Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies

Author : Babak Akhgar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030299260
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies written by Babak Akhgar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and practically minded introduction into serious games for law enforcement agencies. Serious games offer wide ranging benefits for law enforcement with applications from professional trainings to command-level decision making to the preparation for crises events. This book explains the conceptual foundations of virtual and augmented reality, gamification and simulation. It further offers practical guidance on the process of serious games development from user requirements elicitation to evaluation. The chapters are intended to provide principles, as well as hands-on knowledge to plan, design, test and apply serious games successfully in a law enforcement environment. A diverse set of case studies showcases the enormous variety that is possible in serious game designs and application areas and offers insights into concrete design decisions, design processes, benefits and challenges. The book is meant for law enforcement professionals interested in commissioning their own serious games as well as game designers interested in collaborative pedagogy and serious games for the law enforcement and security sector.