Bridging serious games and participatory design

Simulation Experience Design Method for Serious Games

The purpose of the present paper is to briefly introduce the Simulation Experience Design Method for design and future evaluation of user experiences in serious games whose focus is communication and collaboration. The Simulation Experience Design Method extends HCI approaches to create engaging multi-player learning experiences by focusing on how dynamic game content, roles, scenarios, and ass...

Concept of Educational Design for Serious Games

This paper focuses on the challenges related to the development of an educational design for serious games. This paper is based on the project Serious Games on a Global Market Place (2007-2010) founded by the Danish Council for Strategic Research, in which an online game-based platform for English, as foreign language in primary school, and a learning game for social science in secondary school...

Iterative didactic design of serious games

In this paper we present a novel approach for the development of serious games that integrates elements from instructional design with the iterative design methodology used in commercial game development. Our approach is motivated through a theoretical model of game based learning that borrows key concepts from Heinz Von Foerster’s epistemology of radical constructivism and James Paul Gee’s thr...

A Design Model for Effective Serious Games

Many theories have arisen about how to design serious games, but the ideas presented are often disparate, or miss important aspects arisen in others, making further advancement in the field more difficult. To solve this problem, a model is proposed in this paper to help design more effective serious games. The model integrates key characteristics of learning, gameplay, and serious game theories...

Serious Assessments in Serious Games