scholarly journals A Method to Develop Accessible Online Serious Games for People with Disabilities: A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9584
Author(s):  
Angel Jaramillo-Alcázar ◽  
Paz Cortez-Silva ◽  
Marco Galarza-Castillo ◽  
Sergio Luján-Mora
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
The Other ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Teaching Tools

Video games that are used as teaching tools are called serious games. However, there is an important factor that is not usually considered in the design of serious games— the inclusion of people with disabilities. Inclusion can be reached only if accessibility takes on an important role for all. On the other hand, new trends have resulted in different smart devices being used in classrooms. These devices also allow for applications, such as serious games, to be used to support people’s learning process. Despite this, these applications are generally not multi-platform and do not usually consider accessibility features for people with disabilities. This paper proposes a method to develop accessible online serious games that consider people with disabilities as potential users. The method is applied in the case study of an online serious game that teaches about the architecture of a computer in a fun and entertaining way. The method also presents and describes several guidelines to improve online serious game accessibility for people with disabilities. Finally, tests are conducted with some users to gather information about the online serious game and the accessibility features included. This study has important implications for the development of learning tools that consider people with disabilities.

Serious Game Framework for Design of Medical Applications

2012 ◽  
pp. 337-351
Author(s):  
Yingxiao Xu ◽  
Jay Ramanathan ◽  
Rajiv Ramnath
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Interaction Data ◽  
Design Alternatives ◽  
Knowledge Content

Serious games have potential for achieving a variety of effectiveness goals for different stakeholders in complex domains like healthcare. The authors propose a Serious Game Framework (SGF) that provides a conceptual architecture that considers the design alternatives, support for multiple game types on the same architecture, and the ability to assess, research, and improve the learning process. The authors show with examples how with this, on one hand, the same knowledge content can be used in different serious games to achieve different learning outcomes and goals. On the other hand, the same goal can be achieved by different serious games, and user preferences might determine what games are used. The game interaction data also becomes shareable and useful for analysis and continuous improvement.

Using Gamification and Serious Games to Design a New Curriculum

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-241
Author(s):  
Kutay Tinç ◽  
Meltem Gülçin Karadayı
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
The Other ◽  
Educational Purpose ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Curriculum ◽  
Game Elements

Using game elements in class to support the participation of students in learning or designing games that can help educators teach certain subjects more efficiently has been a popular topic in recent years. The former is a matter of gamification, which refers to the application of game elements to other activities so that the activity becomes more engaging or interesting. On the other hand, the latter is about designing a serious game, which can be defined as a game with an explicit and carefully thought out educational purpose. In this study, focused on merging the use of gamification and serious games for a specific engineering course, the authors discuss how the curriculum for this course should be designed so that both sides of the spectrum are facilitated. An application of this union is given with a survey showing the reaction of students to the gamified curricula integrated with a serious game.

scholarly journals ROLE OF MOTIVATION IN LEARNING : A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF A NOVEL 3 IDIOTS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathilda Sumbayak ◽  
Indah Karina Sianturi ◽  
Avivah Adinda Putri ◽  
Dionisius Tito Aditomo ◽  
aprilia chasanah
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Ferdinand De Saussure ◽  
Semiotic Model ◽  
Key Factor

Motivation is the key factor in learning process. Both extrinsic and intrinsic types of motivation are needed for better learning. Intrinsic motivation is more essential than extrinsic motivation. It is intrinsic motivation that urges a learner to learn with devotion, enthusiasm, concentration and with remarkable outcomes. This case study has been conducted to highlight the role of both types of motivation and draws conclusion how intrinsic motivation is more helpful in the learning.The movie, ‘3 Idiots’ has been ‘semiotically’ analyzed to investigate the theme of motivation in the process of learning. The analysis has been done by using semiotic model of signification by Ferdinand de Saussure. The images in the movie have been selected for the semiotic analysis. All of the main characters are, in one way or the other motivated, or not, towards the learning process.

scholarly journals Natural Language Processing in Serious Games: A state of the art.

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Picca ◽  
Dominique Jaccard ◽  
Gérald Eberlé
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level

In the last decades, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has obtained a high level of success. Interactions between NLP and Serious Games have started and some of them already include NLP techniques. The objectives of this paper are twofold: on the one hand, providing a simple framework to enable analysis of potential uses of NLP in Serious Games and, on the other hand, applying the NLP framework to existing Serious Games and giving an overview of the use of NLP in pedagogical Serious Games. In this paper we present 11 serious games exploiting NLP techniques. We present them systematically, according to the following structure:  first, we highlight possible uses of NLP techniques in Serious Games, second, we describe the type of NLP implemented in the each specific Serious Game and, third, we provide a link to possible purposes of use for the different actors interacting in the Serious Game.

scholarly journals Strategies for Increasing Teacher Competence through Structured Mentoring in Developing Local Wisdom-Based Curriculum in Az-Zahwa Playgroup

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-174
Author(s):  
Dika Putri Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Structured Materials ◽  
Teaching Unit

The curriculum is an absolute thing that must be owned by a teaching unit. The curriculum is the core of the learning process. Az-Zahwa Playgroup Trenggalek has five teachers with high-school educational background and has never received training or workshops. This condition has an impact on the course during the learning process. The learning process runs without a plan, and the activities taken during the learning process was not appropriate to the children's age. This research aims to describe the strategies in increasing teacher competence, especially in pedagogic and professionalism based on structured-mentoring. In this research, the structured-mentoring was conducted by providing alternately structured materials and practice using prepared learning-tools appropriate to curriculum 2013. This type of research was qualitative with a case-study design. The data were collected using observations, interviews, and documentation. This research's inhibiting factor was that the teachers have a high-school educational background and have not had teaching experience, resulting in a lack of knowledge and teaching skills. On the other hand, the supporting factor was that teachers were enthusiastic and creative in developing the learning tools based on local culture. The results achieved from this structured-monitoring research were the teachers were able to make the learning-tools start from PROTA, PROMES, RPPM, RPPH according to 2013 Curriculum based on local culture and ended by generating the score by using work-result oriented techniques, checklist, portfolio, and anecdotal notes.

scholarly journals Towards a Serious Game to Help Students Learn Computer Programming

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Muratet ◽  
Patrice Torguet ◽  
Jean-Pierre Jessel ◽  
Fabienne Viallet
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Computer Programming ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Government Health ◽  
Defence Industry ◽  
Programming Skills

Video games are part of our culture like TV, movies, and books. We believe that this kind of software can be used to increase students' interest in computer science. Video games with other goals than entertainment, serious games, are present, today, in several fields such as education, government, health, defence, industry, civil security, and science. This paper presents a study around a serious game dedicated to strengthening programming skills. Real-Time Strategy, which is a popular game genre, seems to be the most suitable kind of game to support such a serious game. From programming teaching features to video game characteristics, we define a teaching organisation to experiment if a serious game can be adapted to learn programming.

scholarly journals An Approach to Accessible Serious Games for People with Dyslexia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2507
Author(s):  
Angel Jaramillo-Alcázar ◽  
Eduardo Venegas ◽  
Santiago Criollo-C ◽  
Sergio Luján-Mora
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Cognitive Disorder ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Development Method ◽  
Accessibility Guidelines ◽  
The One ◽  
Game Developers

Dyslexia is a cognitive disorder that affects the evolutionary ability to read, write, and speak in people, affecting the correct learning of a large percentage of the population worldwide. In fact, incorrect learning is caused because the educational system does not take into consideration the accessibility parameters that people with dyslexia need to maintain a sustainable educational level equal to others. Moreover, the use of mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, has been deployed in education programs, offering many benefits; however, the lack of accessibility of those devices creates new barriers to students with dyslexia that hinder their education. With the aim of reducing these barriers, this paper presents an approach to the development of accessible serious games games for children with dyslexia. As a case study, a serious game based on a previously proposed serious game development method and a new set of accessibility guidelines for people with dyslexia is presented. The main purpose of the serious video game is to improve the treatment of dyslexia, through the collection of data obtained from two puzzles designed to train certain cognitive areas that affect this disability. This article has a double contribution: on the one hand, the guidelines and the method that can help video game developers and therapists to develop accessible serious games for people with dyslexia and, on the other hand, the two specific serious games that can be used by therapists, family members and people with dyslexia themselves.

scholarly journals Factors driving and influencing the development of serious games

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Møller ◽  
Poul Kyvsgaard Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
General Level ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Us ◽  
Game Developers

There are a large variety of serious games aimed at infusing knowledge into both teams and organizations. Some games aims at supporting the team in a given project or development process, whereas others aim at widening the knowledge, skills and competences in an organization on a more general level. In the serious game literature most focus and attention is given to the design and development of digital games. However in Denmark, at least, there has been a growing industry of analogue serious games and serious game facilitation, which give evidence to the fact that not all development in the area of serious games happens in terms of the digital versions. This paper investigate these new analog serious games and learning tools in the Danish market with focus on the drivers and influencing factors during their development and the effort of making a business out of the serious games. Empirically, the paper is based on close interaction and semi-structured interviews with some of the key serious game developers in Denmark (plus one in the US), some of them with a portfolio of up to ten serious games. Besides from uncovering some of the basic motivations to design and develop serious games, the paper will show, how the game developers’ interaction with the end-users and their different business strategies, influences the way the game is developed.

scholarly journals The educational effectiveness of serious games

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-155
Author(s):  
Hassen Ben Rebah ◽  
Rachid Ben slama
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Computer Application ◽  
Competition Strategy ◽  
Educational Effectiveness ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Educational Field

A serious game is a computer application that combines a serious intention of a pedagogical, informative and a communicational type with playful springs of the video game (want to win, collaboration, competition, strategy). This two-dimensional approach has transformed the game from a simple means of entertainment to a robust-integrated tool growing in the world of training and learning. Serious games include the engagement of video games with the worlds of educational and computer simulation to integrate the user in a safe and entertaining learning environment. Many techniques have been used to ameliorate computer graphics and technology in the last few years to make this type of game more adaptive to the learning context. In this study, we are interested in presenting the pedagogical contributions of serious games as well as the different possible approaches of their integration in a learning situation and this is based on a variety of case studies and examples of experimentation. We will start with definitions of other video games that have some valuable characteristics of learning in order to contrast and relate them with serious games. Subsequently, we discuss the definition of serious game and the benefits of its use in education. We will, then, examine approaches to integrate serious games into classrooms with an emphasis on the assets and liabilities of each approach. To finish, we conclude on the trends that will follow the serious games technology in the educational field as well as some recommendations to be taken into consideration in order to better exploit these tools in a pedagogical context.

scholarly journals Assessment-driven Learning through Serious Games: Guidance and Effective Outcomes

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 3304
Author(s):  
Othman Bakkali Yedri ◽  
Lotfi El Aachak ◽  
Mohamed Bouhorma
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Assessment Design ◽  
Detailed Assessment

<p>Evaluation in serious games is an important aspect; it aims to evaluate the good transmission of pedagogical objectives, the performance of student in relation to these objectives defined in the pedagogical scenario, the content of the course and the predefined criteria. However, the effectiveness of learning is under-studied due to the complexity involved to gamify the assessment concept, particularly when it comes to intangible measures related to the progression of learning outcomes, which is among the most important aspects of evaluation in serious games. This paper reviews the literature regarding assessment due to their importance in the learning process with a detailed assessment plan applied on serious game. Then, it presents a framework used to facilitate the assessment design integrated in serious games. Finally, a significant example of how the proposed framework proved successful with corresponding results will conclude the paper.</p>

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