Serious games and entertainment applications

502 Pages·2011·10.431 MB·English

by  Sear, John;Antonopoulos, Nick;Ma, Minhua

Serious Games and Edutainment Applications
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Minhua Ma Andreas Oikonomou Lakhmi C. Jain
Editors
Serious Games and
Edutainment Applications
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Editors
MinhuaMa AndreasOikonomou
TheGlasgowSchoolofArt UniversityofDerby
DigitalDesignStudio E514
TheHub SchoolofComputingandMathematics
G511EAGlasgow KedlestonRoad
UK DE221GBDerby
[email protected] UK
[email protected]
LakhmiC.Jain
UniversityofSouthAustralia
SchoolofElectricalandInformation
Engineering
AdelaideSouthAustralia
Australia
[email protected]
ISBN978-1-4471-2160-2 e-ISBN978-1-4471-2161-9
DOI10.1007/978-1-4471-2161-9
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Preface
My interest in the serious games began in 2005 with work on virtual reality
games for post-stroke rehabilitation but was rekindled in 2009 when experiment-
ing Second Life as a learning and teaching environment for computer game
design and working with Nottingham University Hospitals on computer games
intervention with mucus clearing devices for Cystic Fibrosis. Serious Games and
Edutainment Applications arose from the First International Workshop on Serious
Games Development and Applications at University of Derby in 2010. The event
has now becomes an annual conference and is supported by the Gala European
Network of Excellence in Serious Games, the TARGET project which is partially
funded by the European Community under the Seventh Framework Programme,
andanumberofpartnerssuchastheGlasgowSchoolofArt,UniversityofDerby,
INESC ID, and Technical University of Lisbon. This year, the annual conference
(SGDA2011)ishostedbytheTechnicalUniversityofLisbon(IST/UTL),andthe
conference proceedings willbe published by Springer-Verlag as part of the LNCS
series.
Serious Games and Edutainment Applications offers an insightful introduction
to the development and applications of games technologies in educational set-
tings,withcuttingedgeacademicresearchandindustryupdateswhichwillinform
readers current and future advances in the area. The book is divided into five
parts:introduction,theoriesandreviews,custom-madegamesandcasestudies,use
of Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) games in education, and social aspects and
gamification.
The book will benefit academics, researchers, graduates, and undergradu-
ates in the fields of computer games and education, educators who wish to
use games technologies in their teaching, game designers and developers, game
publishers, and entrepreneurs in the games industry. For academics deliver-
ing taught modules in any fields, this book can serve as a good collection
of related articles to facilitate a broad understanding of this subject and as
such it can become one of the handbook to help educators to select, plan,
and carry out teaching using commercial or custom-made games. Professional
game designers and developers who adapt off-the-shelf virtual environment for
teaching and learning purposes will find some interesting examples of using
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COTS games in educational settings and guidelines on choosing a suitable game
for the classroom in Part IV. The custom-made edutainment applications pre-
sented in Part III of the book may be of particular interest to those who create
new edutainment applications using video games technologies and game design
processes.
Glasgow,UK MinhuaMa
Contents
PartI Introduction
1 InnovationsinSeriousGamesforFutureLearning . . . . . . . . . 3
MinhuaMa,AndreasOikonomou,andLakhmiC.Jain
2 SeriousGames:ANewParadigmforEducation? . . . . . . . . . . 9
SaradeFreitasandFotisLiarokapis
3 OriginsofSeriousGames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
DamienDjaouti,JulianAlvarez,Jean-PierreJessel,
andOlivierRampnoux
4 SeriousLearninginSeriousGames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
KonstantinMitgutsch
PartII TheoriesandReviews
5 SocialFlowandLearninginDigitalGames:AConceptual
ModelandResearchAgenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
ChristineM.BachenandChadRaphael
6 A Formalism to Define, Assess and Evaluate Player
BehaviourinMobileDeviceBasedSeriousGames. . . . . . . . . . 85
HannoHildmannandJuleHildmann
7 SeriousGamesforHealthandSafetyTraining. . . . . . . . . . . . 107
RafaelJ.Martínez-Durá,MiguelArevalillo-Herráez,
IgnacioGarcía-Fernández,MiguelA.Gamón-Giménez,
andAngelRodríguez-Cerro
8 AugmentingInitiativeGameWorldswithMobileDigitalDevices . 125
JuleHildmannandHannoHildmann
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PartIII Custom-MadeGamesandCaseStudies
9 EnhancingLearninginDistributedVirtualWorldsthrough
Touch:ABrowser-basedArchitectureforHapticInteraction . . . 149
SylvesterArnab,PanagiotisPetridis,IanDunwell,andSaradeFreitas
10 OperationARIES!:ASeriousGameforTeachingScientificInquiry 169
KeithMillis,CarolForsyth,HeatherButler,PattyWallace,
ArthurGraesser,andDianeHalpern
11 From Global Games to Re-contextualized Games:
TheDesignProcessofTekMyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
CarolinaIslasSedano,JanPawlowski,ErkkiSutinen,
MikkoVinni,andTeemuH.Laine
12 UsingSeriousGamesforAssessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
AidanSlineyandDaveMurphy
13 Designing and Evaluating Emotional Student Models
forGame-BasedLearning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
KarlaMuñoz,PaulMcKevitt,TomLunney,JulietaNoguez,
andLuisNeri
14 Fun and Learning: Blending Design and Development
Dimensions in Serious Games through Narrative
andCharacters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
TimMarsh,LiZhiqiangNickole,EricKlopfer,ChuangXuejin,
ScotOsterweil,andJasonHaas
PartIV UseofCommercial-Off-the-Shelf(COTS)GamesinEducation
15 ChoosingaSeriousGamefortheClassroom:
AnAdoptionModelforEducators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
KaeNovakandRurikNackerud
16 Learning Narratives with Harry Potter. “Manuel de
Fallas’sTheProphetNewspaper” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
SaraCortésGómez,RutMartínezBorda,andPilarLacasa
17 Using Dungeons and Dragons to Integrate Curricula
inanElementaryClassroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
AlexandraCarter
18 ModdinginSeriousGames:TeachingStructuredQuery
Language(SQL)UsingNeverWinterNights . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
MarioSoflano
19 Expanding a VLE-Based Integration Framework
SupportingEducationinSecondLife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
PeterR.Bloomfield
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PartV SocialAspectsandGamification
20 CasualSocialGamesasSeriousGames:ThePsychology
of Gamification in Undergraduate Education
andEmployeeTraining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
RichardN.LandersandRachelC.Callan
21 ExperiencesofPromotingStudentEngagementThrough
Game-EnhancedLearning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
ThereseCharles,DavidBustard,andMichaelaBlack
22 WhatComputingStudentsCanLearnbyDevelopingTheir
OwnSeriousGames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
MattSmith
23 SocialInteractiveLearninginMultiplayerGames . . . . . . . . . 481
VanessaCamilleri,LeonardBusuttil,andMatthewMontebello
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Contributors
JulianAlvarez Ludoscience,France,[email protected]
MiguelArevalillo-Herráez UniversidaddeValencia,ComputingDepartment,
Burjassot,Spain,[email protected]
SylvesterArnab SeriousGamesInstitute,CoventryUniversity,Coventry,UK,
[email protected]
ChristineM.Bachen CommunicationDepartment,SantaClaraUniversity,Santa
Clara,CA95053-0277,USA,[email protected]
MichaelaBlack UniversityofUlster,ColeraineBT521SA,UK,
[email protected]
PeterR.Bloomfield SchoolofComputing,UniversityoftheWestofScotland,
Paisley,Scotland,UK,peter.bloomfi[email protected]
RutMartínezBorda DepartmentofPsychology,EducationandPhysical
Education,UniversityofAlcala,Madrid,Spain,[email protected]
DavidBustard UniversityofUlster,ColeraineBT521SA,UK,
[email protected]
LeonardBusuttil UniversityofMalta,Msida,Malta,
[email protected]
HeatherButler ClaremontGraduateUniversity,Claremont,CA,USA,
[email protected]
RachelC.Callan OldDominionUniversity,Norfolk,VA,USA,
[email protected]
VanessaCamilleri UniversityofMalta,Msida,Malta,
[email protected]
AlexandraCarter UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles,CA,USA,
[email protected]
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