A Brief History of Serious Games

Wilkinson, P. N.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46152-6_2

Cited by 109 publications

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“…In this project, we sought therefore to adopt an artivist approach in the production of a 'serious game'. The practice of using games for purposes other than entertainment can take us as far back as ancient Greece (Wilkinson, 2016), but from the 18th century, there are clear attempts to use games for a range of political and pedagogic purposes (Mayer and Bekebrede, 2006). The origins of the modern concept lie in the work of Clark A Abt who sought to improve education through the use of games that 'have an explicit and carefully thought-out educational purpose and are not intended to be played primarily for amusement ' (1970: 9).…”

Section: The 'Artivist' Potential Of Serious Gamesmentioning

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Playing the game? A criminological account of the making and sharing ofProbationary: The Game of Life on Licence

2020

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This article reflects on the production and dissemination of Probationary: The Game of Life on Licence. Probationary is an artwork in the form of a board game that takes its players on a journey as they navigate the complexities of the probation process. This article explores the interdisciplinary collaborations that underpinned both the making and the sharing of the game and examines the benefits and challenges of working with stakeholders in this way. We suggest that creative methodologies can provide new ways of engaging with research subjects and new means of disseminating academic research with a view to informing change.

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Playing the game? A criminological account of the making and sharing ofProbationary: The Game of Life on Licence

2020

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“…Clark Abt's seminal work in [12] and [13] is widely thought to be the originating document behind the term Serious Games [14], as quoted below:…”

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Designing Serious Games for Cyber Ranges: A Socio-technical Approach

Kianpour

Kowalski

Zoto

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW)

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Appropriate training is an effective solution to tackle the evolving threat landscape and conflicts in the cyber domain and to fulfill security requirements. Serious games demonstrate pedagogic effectiveness in this field, however, they need to comply with national, organizational, and individual strategies and characteristics. These games provide the players, individually or in groups, with an opportunity to develop their adversarial and system thinking skills to set up effective defenses. To this end, in this paper, we propose a framework for designing serious games that raise security awareness. The proposed framework considers the complex nature of the cyber domain, the knowledge and motivation of participants, and the experiential learning using cyber ranges. The framework is based on existing frameworks, and integrates their advantages to form a comprehensive framework. Future research should refine the framework and design serious games to evaluate its effectiveness in producing desired end results.

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“…In the past two decades, a number of other definitions have emerged. As [8] highlights, these definitions frequently are reductive Figure 1. The original caption was, "The relations between serious games and similar educational concepts" (from [2]).…”

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Games in Learning: Shedding Light on a Problematic Taxonomy

Beatman¹,

Duff²

2019

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Game-Based Learning

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The use of games as tools for learning has been a paradigm of great interest for over fifty years. Several terms have emerged to describe disciplines that study and apply this paradigm. Many of these terms may be synonymous or have overlapping uses or have multiple definitions within different disciplines. The literature was surveyed for the definitions terms relating to this paradigm. Their working definitions and relationships are discussed. Through both a survey of the literature and a novel variant of sorting activity, the Item Definition Semantic Sort (IDSS). It is shown that individual item definitions do not semantically cluster together by corresponding term. This indicates both a lack of consensus on terms' definitions, and of clarity between terms. The umbrella term Games in Learning (GiL) is coined to integrate the disciplines and products within this design paradigm. Games in Learning is defined, "Research and work involving the use of games, in whole or in part, as tools to improve motivation, engagement, and/or understanding in learning". The rationale for the term is elaborated, and the major functional divisions found within.

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A Brief History of Serious Games

Cited by 109 publications

References 52 publications

Playing the game? A criminological account of the making and sharing ofProbationary: The Game of Life on Licence

Playing the game? A criminological account of the making and sharing ofProbationary: The Game of Life on Licence

Designing Serious Games for Cyber Ranges: A Socio-technical Approach

Games in Learning: Shedding Light on a Problematic Taxonomy

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