Serious games on environmental management

Serious Games & Simulation for Risks Management

This article proposes a definition of the object “Serious Game” and an approach dedicated to classify its various occurrences.

Ongoing Projects on Serious Games

This number of the EAI Transactions on Serious Games is dedicated to a set of ongoing research and development projects in this area. The selected articles represent very well the diversity of approaches, contexts and objectives that foster and render highly dynamic this area of study. In Europe, several funding programmes like the 7 th Framework Programme, the Lifelong Learning Programme and t...

Serious Assessments in Serious Games

Serious Games

This special issue highlights some of the best of emerging research in using video games for serious purposes. Although “serious games” is a new term, such games have been around for many years in the form of training simulators for vehicle control, such as flight simulators, and other types of simulation technologies. Through game constructs, we can simulate realistic situations to provide val...

How Serious are serious games? Some lessons from Infra-games

In this paper, the authors explore the possible contribution of serious games for advanced academic and/or professional learning in particular to support the decision-making and 1