This paper reports on both theoretical and empirical evidence pertaining to why and how video games can motivate students to learn in traditional or non-traditional settings. The first section describes the background and rationale of the paper. It explains key concepts linked to motivation, engagement and flow, and illustrates how some features in video games can promote intrinsic motivation, ...

In the United States, video game playing is an immensely popular form of entertainment; the majority of adults will have had some experience with video games during their lives (Rideout et al., 2010). As the popularity of video games in entertainment has increased, so has interest in exploring the potential effects that video games may have on learning and generalizable cognitive ability. Educa...

The goal of this dissertation is to propose a high level generic architecture for the development of agents able to effectively play games with strong social components and a mix of competition and cooperation. Traditional techniques used in the context of games include a combination of heuristics and searching strategies like minimax, Branch & Bound as well as Monte-Carlo approaches; however, ...

Abstract. Traditional game is one of the sport activity which has many benefits for body health, psychic, and surrounding environment such as cultural values that must be preserved. Teaching traditional games to children very necessary at this time train their motor social emotional. The writing method starts from problem identification, literacy study, data analysis, building alternative solvi...

This essay focuses on how video games both highlight our traditional assumptions about reading and writing and suggest alternative paradigms that combine the new and the traditional: • Play. Video games reveal how pleasure and desire are inherent to the reading and writing process. This dimension of gaming helps explain why video games can produce resistance in terms of approaches to writing in...

The first year of the Metaverse Era is considered 2021 mainly because gaming company Roblox was listed on March 10, 2021. Different from traditional games, in metaverse, game players can construct their own games to let others play together.

Game·Tel is an open source software system that supports personalized learning, focusing on serious games and simulations, making these and traditional content accessible and adaptive to the student and educational context. In this paper we discuss about its design and functionalities, its modular architecture and the multi-environment approach. Index Terms – External Tool; Game·Tel; Personalis...

We define a model for linear logic based on two well-known ingredients: games and simulations. This model is interesting in the following respect: while it is obvious that the objects interpreting formulas are games and that everything is developed with the intuition of interaction in mind, the notion of morphism is very different from traditional morphisms in games semantics. In particular, we...