Simva: Simplifying the Scientific Validation of Serious Games

Abstract

Serious games validation is a highly complex and burdensome process. To ensure that games meet their intended educational goals, it is necessary to have a clear experimental design and the necessary tools to minimize the errors that may appear in the process. In this article, after describing the most common problems that we have found while validating our own games, we present Simva, a tool designed to simplify the process of validating serious games with formal questionnaires and relating them with learning analytics data, reducing time, cost, and error rates.