Advancing Evaluation Practice With Serious Games

Serious Games Evaluation: Processes, Models, and Concepts

Serious games are developed with the goal of having a certain impact on players which goes beyond mere entertainment. This purposedriven design is immanent to serious games and can be stated as the key characteristic that distinguishes serious games from other digital games. Hence, verifying that a serious game has the intended effect on the players needs to be an essential part in the developm...

Advancing evaluation practice in health promotion.

Ben J. Smith, Chris Rissel, Trevor Shilton and Adrian Bauman School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Level 6, 99 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Vic. 3004, Australia. NSW Office of Preventive Health, Don Everett Building, Level 1, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia. National Heart Foundation Western Australia, 334 Rokeby Road, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia....

Creative Learning with Serious Games

In this paper, we describe the structure and content of a proposed workshop to discuss innovative methodological approaches to Serious Games for creative learning. A special emphasis is given to state-of-the-art research work and cross-discipline approaches (e.g. the mix of Storytelling and Serious Games). In addition, different case studies coming from very different European (research) projec...

Learning programming with serious games

Students who are learning to program often have difficulties understanding cognitively complex concepts. Teaching programming is mainly focused on the syntax and features of programs, rather than to a deeper understanding of programming constructs and abstract concepts. Computer game stimulates active learning and presentation of learning content in a variety of contexts that are funny and enga...

Serious Assessments in Serious Games