Devottam Gaurav, Yash Kaushik, S. Supraja, Manav Yadav, M. Gupta, Manmohan Chaturvedi
{"title":"Empirical Study of Adaptive Serious Games in Enhancing Learning Outcome","authors":"Devottam Gaurav, Yash Kaushik, S. Supraja, Manav Yadav, M. Gupta, Manmohan Chaturvedi","doi":"10.17083/ijsg.v9i2.486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17083/ijsg.v9i2.486","url":null,"abstract":"Use of serious games to teach concepts of various important topics including Cybersecurity is growing. With enhanced learning outcome and user experience, the player is likely to gain from engaging in game play. We report an empirical comparison of two cybersecurity games namely ; Use of Firewalls for network protection and concepts of Structured Query Language (SQL) injections to get unauthorised access to online databases. We have designed these games in two versions. The version without using adaptive features provide a baseline to compare efficacy of the machine learning based adaptive game while comparing the learning outcomes and user experience (UX). The efficacy of the Machine Learning (ML) agent in providing the adaptability to the game play is based on classification of player to two categories viz. Beginner and Expert using historical player data on three relevant attributes. The game dynamics is changed based on the player classification to ensure that game challenge is optimally suited to player type and the player continues to experience playful flow in different stages of the game. The analysis of the results in terms of objective evaluation of learning outcomes and subjective feedback from players for UX tend to show a marginal improvement by introduction of adaptive behaviour in both games.","PeriodicalId":44800,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Serious Games","volume":"9 1","pages":"27-42"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68120486","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}
{"title":"Editorial. Vol. 8, Issue 3","authors":"A. De Gloria","doi":"10.17083/ijsg.v8i3.468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17083/ijsg.v8i3.468","url":null,"abstract":"This issue includes four papers selected among the best presented at the Games and Learning Alliance Conference (GaLA Conf), that in 2020 was held in the Laval virtual world, organized by the University of Le Mans. Beside the special issue, this number of the International Journal of Serious Games also features two regular papers, that I briefly introduce in the following.","PeriodicalId":44800,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Serious Games","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68120546","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}
Paola Julie Aguilar Cruz, Henry Alberto Álvarez Guayara
{"title":"A Serious Game to learn English: The case of Bethe1Challenge","authors":"Paola Julie Aguilar Cruz, Henry Alberto Álvarez Guayara","doi":"10.17083/ijsg.v8i4.448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17083/ijsg.v8i4.448","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44800,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Serious Games","volume":"8 1","pages":"65-80"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68120637","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}
{"title":"Design methodology of analytical games for knowledge acquisition","authors":"F. Rosa, A. D. Gloria","doi":"10.17083/ijsg.v8i4.456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17083/ijsg.v8i4.456","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44800,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Serious Games","volume":"8 1","pages":"3-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68120217","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}
Antonios Liapis,Georgios N. Yannakakis,Manuel Gentile,Manuel Ninaus
{"title":"Introduction to the GaLA Conf 2019 Special Issue","authors":"Antonios Liapis,Georgios N. Yannakakis,Manuel Gentile,Manuel Ninaus","doi":"10.17083/ijsg.v7i3.390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17083/ijsg.v7i3.390","url":null,"abstract":"It is a great pleasure for us to introduce this issue of the IJSG, which is dedicated to the Games and Learning Alliance Conference (GaLA Conf) that was held in Athens, November 27-29, 2019. Almost 70 participants converged in this beautiful, historic city in order to share knowledge and experiences related to serious games and gamification, their techniques and their application.
A number of the best conference papers were selected, and the authors were invited to extend their paper with at least one-third new content, and to submit their paper to IJSG for a regular peer-review process. This issue contains three of the resulting articles, which gives an overview of the rich field of serious games.","PeriodicalId":44800,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Serious Games","volume":"26 1","pages":"59-60"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516074","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}
{"title":"Editorial, Vol. 7, No. 2","authors":"A. De Gloria","doi":"10.17083/ijsg.v7i2.371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17083/ijsg.v7i2.371","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial of the International Journal of Serious Games, Vol. 7, No. 2","PeriodicalId":44800,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Serious Games","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77942050","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}
Lahcen Oubahssi, Claudine Toffolon, G. Loup, Eric Sanchez
{"title":"From Design to Management of JENs (in the JEN.Lab Project)","authors":"Lahcen Oubahssi, Claudine Toffolon, G. Loup, Eric Sanchez","doi":"10.17083/ijsg.v7i1.336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17083/ijsg.v7i1.336","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44800,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Serious Games","volume":"7 1","pages":"23-46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68120321","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}