Serious game evaluation as a meta‐game

Serious game evaluation as a meta-game

Purpose – This paper aims to briefly outline the seamless evaluation approach and its application during an evaluation of ORIENT, a serious game aimed at young adults. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, the authors detail a unobtrusive, embedded evaluation approach that occurs within the game context, adding value and entertainment to the player experience whilst accumulating useful d...

Intelligent Agent Modeling as Serious Game

We propose a novel approach to intelligent tutoring gaming simulations designed for both educational and inquiry purposes in complex multi-actor systems such as infrastructures or markets. Rather than letting students perform guided role-play, the idea is to guide students as they construct, learn about and exchange delegate agents to test operations strategies in various simulated scenarios. W...

A serious parlor game.

LawVille: a Collaborative Serious Game

SGs are (digital) games used for purposes other than mere entertainment using leaning-by-doing paradigm. Current internet technologies increase the capabilities of Web-Based Serious Games making them collaborative e-learning instruments. This paper presents LawVille, a Web-Based Collaborative Serious Game aimed at teaching citizenship and the Italian Constitution to secondary school students.

Physiological Evaluation of Attention Getting Strategies during Serious Game Play

This study investigated Attention getting strategies and their evaluation during serious game play. We proposed, therefore, the use of physical sensors, namely heart rate, skin conductance, and electroencephalogram (EEG), as well as a theoretical model of motivation (Keller’s ARCS model) to evaluate two Attention getting strategies in a serious game environment. Results showed that some specifi...