Concepts of sustainable urban development, “smart city” and civic engagement are becoming more and more popular among researchers and people[…]
Read moreCategory: Serious Games
Serious Games are games designed for a non-entertainment purpose like training, educational, marketing or awareness raising objectives. They create a knowledge and/or skill development environment for the player while retaining the same focused motivation context of “fun” games. Serious Games are used in numerous areas like engineering, health, education, defense, military, emergency management, and scientific exploration, among many others. Some of the topics addressed in this section are:· Serious game research
· Serious game design
· Serious games technology
· Serious games applications
· Assessment and evaluation of serious games
Dynamic Serious Games Balancing
Dynamic Game Balancing (DGB) is the process of real-time adjustment of game parameters so that the faced challenges fit the[…]
Read moreLocation-based Games
With the massification of smartphones and improvements in the location-awareness of these devices, digital games are moving out from within[…]
Read moreSerious Games for STEM Learning
STEM is an acronym used to represent the educational areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and it is typically[…]
Read moreSerious Games for Health
Serious games for health are games that have a “serious” purpose pertaining to healthcare. They are aimed at improving the[…]
Read moreProcedural Content Generation in Serious Games
The Serious Games (SG) industry produces games for niche target markets and specific audiences. Yet, the entertainment industry pushes forward[…]
Read moreSerious Games Evaluation
Evaluation is the systematic and objective assessment of an ongoing or completed activity or project and/or its resulting products. The[…]
Read moreDidactic aspects of game-based learning
Modern, efficient approaches to learning are student-centred, motivational, problem-based, directed to higher ordered educational goals, and often supported by ICT.[…]
Read moreAre Serious Games really Games?
A game is a goal-directed and competitive activity conducted within a framework of agreed rules (Lindley 2003). Or “A game[…]
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