Serious Games and Edutainment Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ma, Minhua (Editor), Oikonomou, Andreas (Editor), Jain, Lakhmi C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2011.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Education > Data processing.; Computer Science.; Computer Science, general.; Computers and Education.

The recent re-emergence of serious games as a branch of video games and as a promising frontier of education has introduced the concept of games designed for a serious purpose other than pure entertainment. To date the major applications of serious games include education and training, engineering,...

Table of Contents:

• Part I – Introduction
• Innovations in Serious Games for Future Learning
• Serious Games: A New Paradigm for Education?
• Origins of Serious Games
• Serious Learning in Serious Games
• Part II – Theories and Reviews
• Social Flow and Learning in Digital Games: A Conceptual Model and Research Agenda
• A Formalism to Define, Assess and Evaluate Player Behaviour in Mobile Device Based Serious Games
• Serious Games for Health and Safety Training
• Augmenting Initiative Game Worlds with Mobile Digital Devices
• Part III – Custom-Made Games and Case Studies
• Enhancing Learning in Distributed Virtual Worlds through Touch: A Browser-based Architecture for Haptic Interaction
• Operation ARIES!: A Serious Game for Teaching Scientific Inquiry
• From Global Games to Re-contextualized Games: The Design Process of TekMyst
• Using Serious Games for Assessment
• Designing and Evaluating Emotional Student Models for Game-Based Learning
• Fun and Learning: Blending Design and Development Dimensions in Serious Games through Narrative and Characters
• Part IV – Use of Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Games in Education
• Choosing a Serious Game for the Classroom: An Adoption Model for Educators
• Learning Narratives with Harry Potter. “Manuel de Fallas’s The Prophet Newspaper”
• Using Dungeons and Dragons to Integrate Curricula in an Elementary Classroom
• Modding in Serious Games: Teaching Structured Query Language (SQL) Using NeverWinter Nights
• Expanding a VLE-Based Integration Framework Supporting Education in Second Life
• Part V – Social Aspects and Gamification
• Casual Social Games as Serious Games: The Psychology of Gamification in Undergraduate Education and Employee Training
• Experiences of Promoting Student Engagement Through Game-Enhanced Learning
• What Computing Students Can Learn by Developing Their Own Serious Games
• Social Interactive Learning in Multiplayer Games
• Index.