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Design Pattern Canvas: Towards Co-Creation of Unified Serious Game Design Patterns 设计模式画布:面向统一严肃游戏设计模式的共同创造

2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES) Pub Date : 2014-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012153

Gregor Zavcer, Simon Mayr, P. Petta

引用次数: 4

Hybrid Peer to Peer and Server Client System for Limited Users Multiplayer First Person Style Games 混合点对点和服务器客户端系统的有限用户多人第一人称风格的游戏

2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES) Pub Date : 2014-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012161

Shawn Cassar, M. Montebello, S. Zammit

引用次数: 2

Applying Activity Theory in Comparatively Evaluating Serious Games 运用活动理论对严肃游戏进行比较评价

2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES) Pub Date : 2014-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012031

T. Ng, K. Debattista, A. Chalmers

{"title":"Applying Activity Theory in Comparatively Evaluating Serious Games","authors":"T. Ng, K. Debattista, A. Chalmers","doi":"10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012031","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the interest in serious games research through the years, there remains methodological issues which threaten the strength of its evidence base. Much has been published on the topic and its possible learning effects, but little is written to explicitly describe and compare the various interactions and representations used in relation to learning effects. Reviews of the topic frequently voice concerns that the wide variability in approaches to serious games prevents researchers from making firm conclusions about the general benefits of serious games/game-based learning. A number of frameworks have been published to evaluate the educational benefits of serious games as well as to guide its design. However, they do not adequately address which game mechanics and representations will be suitable to the learning objectives and players. Activity Theory has been used in a variety of ways in games research but to our best knowledge, it does not appear to have been applied to compare and contrast the activities of game play and its representations, on learning. Here, we describe how an adaptation of Activity Theory could help to clarify which game components are most useful and why.","PeriodicalId":428014,"journal":{"name":"2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES)","volume":"402 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132439337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

A Usability Evaluation of Game-Based Approaches Assessing Risk and Delayed Gratification 基于游戏的风险和延迟满足评估方法的可用性评估

2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES) Pub Date : 2014-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012028

Stella Doukianou, Panagiotis Petridis, I. Dunwell, J. Cooper

{"title":"A Usability Evaluation of Game-Based Approaches Assessing Risk and Delayed Gratification","authors":"Stella Doukianou, Panagiotis Petridis, I. Dunwell, J. Cooper","doi":"10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012028","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the usability evaluation of two games that are built upon existing experiments, assessing risk aversion and delayed gratification. The games were created in order to elicit players' personality traits. The game scenarios were based on adapted validated experiments on cognitive psychology and behavioural economics. The purpose of these games is to enable the generation of predictive behavioural models, and thus design an adaptive and dynamic game promoting responsible energy consumption. Adapting the behaviour of energy consumers to follow environmentally friendly consumption patterns is a central challenge when seeking to address environmental concerns. To perform such adaptation, an understanding of an individual user's traits can allow for customised solutions to be delivered, increasing the likelihood of impact. To assess the usability of the games, domain experts filled in two QUIS questionnaires. The results showed a broadly positive reception of the games' usability; taking into account time, financial and other resources, though they also highlight some areas for future work. More broadly, knowledge generated has the potential to inform designs of similar games that adapt behavioural tasks to elicit an understanding of the user.","PeriodicalId":428014,"journal":{"name":"2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121094329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Situated Learning with Role-Playing Games to Improve Transfer of Learning in Tertiary Education Classrooms 运用角色扮演游戏的情境学习促进高等教育课堂的学习转移

2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES) Pub Date : 2014-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012166

L. Thong

引用次数: 2

A Sweetspot for Innovation: Developing Games with Purpose through Student-Staff Collaboration 创新的甜蜜点:通过师生合作开发有目的的游戏

2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES) Pub Date : 2014-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012027

R. Sloan, D. Galloway, I. Donald

{"title":"A Sweetspot for Innovation: Developing Games with Purpose through Student-Staff Collaboration","authors":"R. Sloan, D. Galloway, I. Donald","doi":"10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012027","url":null,"abstract":"Within industry as well as academia, developing games that have wider impact on society has been of particular interest in the last decade. The increasing use of terms such as 'games with purpose', ' games for good' and 'serious games' has been mirrored by a flurry of activity in games research. Broader applications of games beyond entertainment are now well-understood and accepted, with universities and companies excelling in creating games to serve particular needs. However, it is not explicitly clear how undergraduates of game design and development courses can be directly involved in serious game creation. With most undergraduates inspired by commercial games development, and the games industry requiring that universities teach specific technical skills in their courses, balancing the research aspirations of academics with the educational requirements of an appropriate undergraduate course can be a difficult balancing act. In this paper, the authors present three case studies of games with purpose developed through collaboration between undergraduate students and academic staff. In all cases, the educational value of the projects for the students is considered in relation to the research value for the academics, who face increasing demands to develop research outcomes despite a necessity to provide a first-rate learning experience and nurture future game developers.","PeriodicalId":428014,"journal":{"name":"2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114930003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Semantic Content Generation Framework for Game Worlds 游戏世界的语义内容生成框架

2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES) Pub Date : 2014-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012165

M. Bennett

{"title":"Semantic Content Generation Framework for Game Worlds","authors":"M. Bennett","doi":"10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012165","url":null,"abstract":"As virtual worlds in games become larger and more detailed, the need for rich, interactive content to realistically populate these worlds becomes greater. Content is expensive and slow to create manually and does not scale once created. Procedural content generation offers an attractive alternative for providing this content. There are several methods for generating different types of content including terrain and some types of organisms. However, these methods are hard to control and can give inconsistent results. A method of providing a high level, semantic context to such procedural methods may offer a potential solution. Such an approach may also allow manually created content to be placed appropriately and in a scalable manner in the world. Finally, semantic knowledge may be used to annotate content to allow greater interactivity and improved AI. This paper suggests such a method. Making use of semantic networks for storing knowledge about the potential content of the virtual world and using stateful graph traversal algorithms to convert the semantic knowledge into concrete instances, this method supports the procedural generation of rich complex content for virtual worlds.","PeriodicalId":428014,"journal":{"name":"2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121534944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Gamification of Project Management within a Corporate Environment: An Exploratory Study 企业环境下项目管理游戏化:一项探索性研究

2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES) Pub Date : 2014-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012158

Ryan Sammut, D. Seychell, Neville Attard

引用次数: 7

Online-Gym: Multiuser Virtual Gymnasium Using RINIONS and Multiple Kinect Devices 在线健身房:使用RINIONS和多个Kinect设备的多用户虚拟健身房

2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES) Pub Date : 2014-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012164

F. Cassola, H. Paredes, Benjamim Fonseca, P. Martins, Sílvia Ala, Francisco Cardoso, Fausto de Carvalho, Leonel Morgado

引用次数: 5

GPU-Based Selective Sparse Sampling for Interactive High-Fidelity Rendering 基于gpu的选择性稀疏采样交互式高保真渲染

2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES) Pub Date : 2014-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012159

S. Galea, K. Debattista, Sandro Spina

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引用次数: 5