Serious games and edutainment applications. Volume II (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Minhua Ma, Andreas Oikonomou, editors.
• Editors: Ma, Minhua; Oikonomou, Andreas V
• Contents: Foreword -- Section I: Serious Games and Emotion -- Rising to the Challenge: An Emotion-Driven Approach Towards Adaptive Serious Games -- The Emotion Detectives Game: Supporting the Socio-Emotional Competence of Young Children -- Section II: Games for Music Education -- Designing Music Games and Mobile Apps for Early Music Learning -- Shake and create: Re-Appropriating Video Game Technologies for the Enactive Learning of Music -- Section III: Games for Medical Education and Training -- Digitisation of Anatomical Specimens and Historical Pathology Specimens for Educational Benefit -- Towards the Development of a Virtual Reality Simulator with Haptic Force Feedback for Training in Stereotactic Brain Biopsies -- Interaction and Communication in an Immersive Learning Game: The Challenges of Modelling Real-Time Collaboration in a Virtual Operating Room -- Oculus Surgery : Application of Oculus Rift and Leap Motion in Surgical Training -- Creation of e-tutorials to enhance medical student Anatomy learning experience using Articulate Storyline 2 -- Section IV: Game Based Learning in Various Subjects -- Tipping the Scales: Classroom Feasibility of the Radix Endeavor Game -- Al-Kimia: How to Create a Video Game to Help High-School Students Enjoy Chemistry -- Designing virtual worlds for learning history: the case-study of NetConnect project -- Section V: Serious Games for Children and Adolescents -- Intelligent Behaviors of Virtual Characters in Serious Games for Child Safety Education -- Using Serious Games to (re)train Cognition in Adolescents -- Promoting Healthy Adolescent Lifestyles through Serious Games: Enacting a Multidisciplinary Approach -- Digital Games in Early Childhood: Broadening Definitions of Learning, Literacy and Play -- Section VI: Serious Games for Serious Topics -- Walk a Mile in My Shoes": A Virtual World Exercise for Fostering Students' Subjective Understandings of the Experiences of People of Color -- Question-answering Virtual Humans based on Pre-recorded Testimonies for Holocaust Education -- A Driving Simulator Designed for the Care of Truckers Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Using Serious Games to Establish a Dialogue Between Designers and Citizens in Participatory Design: The Architectural Portal of People's Narratives -- Section VII: Gamification -- How to Use Game Elements to Enhance Learning: Applications of the Theory of Gamified Learning -- Why Gamification Fails in Education and How to Make it Successful: Introducing 9 Gamification Heuristics based on Self-Determination Theory -- Section VIII: Assessment of Serious Games -- Factors Associated with Player Satisfaction and Educational Value of Serious Games -- Learning Analytics as an Assessment Tool in Serious Game: A Literature Review -- Section IX: Narrative Design -- Creating Story-Based Serious Games Using a Controlled Natural Language Domain Specific Modeling Language -- Immersion and Narrative Design in Educational Games Across Cultures -- Section X: Review and Methodology -- "I Just Don't Know Where to Begin" -- Designing to Facilitate the Educational Use of Commercial, Off-the-Shelf Videogames -- The Role of the Teacher in Game-Based Learning: A Review and Outlook -- Building Context-Aware Gamified Apps by Using Ontologies as Unified Representation and Reasoning based Models.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 702 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 794.8; Computer science; Computer games; Educational games; Computer simulation; Computer graphics; Education; GAMES -- Board; Computer games; Educational games; Computers -- Computer Simulation; Computers -- Computer Graphics; Education -- Computers & Technology; Computers -- Interactive & Multimedia; Computer modelling & simulation; Graphics programming; Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL); Graphical & digital media applications; Computers -- User Interfaces; User interface design & usability; Computer Science; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Simulation and Modeling; Computer Graphics; Computers and Education; Media Design; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319516455; 3319516450
• Related ISBNs: 9783319516431; 3319516434
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 10, 2017).
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