DIN SPEC 91380:2018-06, Serious Games Metadata Format

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Metadata Format

scholarly journals Quality Criteria for Serious Games: Serious Part, Game Part, and Balance

10.2196/19037 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. e19037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polona Caserman ◽  
Katrin Hoffmann ◽  
Philipp Müller ◽  
Marcel Schaub ◽  
Katharina Straßburg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Fundamental Goal ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
Metadata Format

Serious games are digital games that have an additional goal beyond entertainment. Recently, many studies have explored different quality criteria for serious games, including effectiveness and attractiveness. Unfortunately, the double mission of serious games, that is, simultaneous achievement of intended effects (serious part) and entertainment (game part), is not adequately considered in these studies. This paper aims to identify essential quality criteria for serious games. The fundamental goal of our research is to identify important factors of serious games and to adapt the existing principles and requirements from game-related literature to effective and attractive serious games. In addition to the review of the relevant literature, we also include workshop results. Furthermore, we analyzed and summarized 22 state-of-the-art serious games for education and health. The selected best-practice serious games either prove their effectiveness through scientific studies or by winning game awards. For the analysis of these games, we refer to “DIN SPEC 91380 Serious Games Metadata Format.” A summarized text states quality criteria for both the serious and the game part, and especially the balance between them. We provide guidelines for high-quality serious games drawn from literature analysis and in close cooperation with domain experts.

scholarly journals Quality Criteria for Serious Games: Serious Part, Game Part, and Balance (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polona Caserman ◽  
Katrin Hoffmann ◽  
Philipp Müller ◽  
Marcel Schaub ◽  
Katharina Straßburg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Fundamental Goal ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
Metadata Format

UNSTRUCTURED Serious games are digital games that have an additional goal beyond entertainment. Recently, many studies have explored different quality criteria for serious games, including effectiveness and attractiveness. Unfortunately, the double mission of serious games, that is, simultaneous achievement of intended effects (serious part) and entertainment (game part), is not adequately considered in these studies. This paper aims to identify essential quality criteria for serious games. The fundamental goal of our research is to identify important factors of serious games and to adapt the existing principles and requirements from game-related literature to effective and attractive serious games. In addition to the review of the relevant literature, we also include workshop results. Furthermore, we analyzed and summarized 22 state-of-the-art serious games for education and health. The selected best-practice serious games either prove their effectiveness through scientific studies or by winning game awards. For the analysis of these games, we refer to “DIN SPEC 91380 Serious Games Metadata Format.” A summarized text states quality criteria for both the serious and the game part, and especially the balance between them. We provide guidelines for high-quality serious games drawn from literature analysis and in close cooperation with domain experts.

Formative Research for STEM Educational Games

2013 ◽  
Vol 221 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Sherry
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Sesame Street ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
Educational Video ◽  
Educational Media ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Educational Video Game ◽  
Games For Health

Millions in taxpayer and foundation euros and dollars have been spent building and testing educational video games, games for health, and serious games. What have been the fruits of this frenzy of activity? What educational video game has had the reach and impact of Sesame Street or Blues Clues television shows? By comparison, the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) managed to get Sesame Street off the ground within a couple of years, writing the basic scientific literature on educational media design in the process. Not only is Sesame Street well known and proven, it laid the basis for every effective educational show to follow. This article explores the differences between the CTW scientific approach to educational media production and the mostly nonscientific approach consuming so many resources in the educational games, games for health, and serious games movements. Fundamental scientific questions that remain unanswered are outlined.

Serious Games and Virtual Worlds: The Next I-O Frontier!

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aarti Shyamsunder ◽  
Michael S. Fetzer ◽  
Wendy L. Bedwell ◽  
Ben Hawkes ◽  
Charles A. Handler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Serious Games

Leveraging serious games and advanced training technologies for enhanced cognitive skill development

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandro Scielzo ◽  
Fleet Davis ◽  
Jennifer M. Riley ◽  
John Hyatt ◽  
Donald Lampton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Cognitive Skill ◽  
Advanced Training

The Aesthetic Function of New Media “Serious Games”

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
JianHua Yang ◽  
Zhao Kun ◽  
Min Yin
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
The Aesthetic

Transformationsprozesse – Qualifizierung mit Serious Games

2020 ◽  
Vol 115 (10) ◽  
pp. 691-697
Author(s):  
Jens Mathis Rieckmann ◽  
Thomas Knothe ◽  
Jan Torka
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document