Serious Pervasive Games

Serious Games: The Impact of Pervasive Gaming on Business

Game Mechanics Supporting Pervasive Learning and Experience in Games, Serious Games, and Interactive & Social Media

This workshop focuses on defining the mechanisms required for pervasive gameplay and interaction to inform, educate, and reflect with game supported learning. The objective is for participants to share, discuss and learn about existing relevant mechanisms for pervasive learning in a socially-nurtured Serious Game (SG) context. Research in SG, as a whole, faces two main challenges: understanding...

Serious Assessments in Serious Games

Pervasive Games

Quickly emerging from the fast-paced growth of mobile communications and wireless technologies, pervasive games take gaming away from the computer screen and back to the three-dimensional world. Nowadays games are designed to be played in public spaces like hospitals and rehabilitation centers, shopping malls, conferences, museums and other nontraditional game venues. The increasing deployments...

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...