Multi-player Educational Video Game over Cloud to Stimulate Logical Reasoning of Children

Villacís, César; Fuertes, Walter; Bustamante, Andres; Almachi, Daniel; Procel, Carlos; Fuertes, Susana; Toulkeridis, Theofilos

doi:10.1109/ds-rt.2014.24

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“…Unity offers modules capable of publishing applications to many platforms, as well as webbased applications using the Unity plugins [32][33] [34]. As we illustrated in Fig.…”

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Playful and interactive environment-based augmented reality to stimulate learning of children

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2016 18th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)

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our study is about how to create educational software using Augmented Reality combined with Bloom's Taxonomy, whose main purpose is to stimulate spatial reasoning improving the learning process of children. To reach this main objective, we have applied an incremental Object-Oriented Hypermedia Design Method, with the purpose to produce a mobile application for a learning basis on Smart-Client architecture. Furthermore, we incorporated operations necessary for cognitive development and effective learning in the logic of the application. Therefore, we applied modern 3D technology approaches such as Unity 3D Game Engine and Vuforia. Additionally, we designed and implemented a Computerized Classification Test based on the Bloom's taxonomy in order to determine the learning results. The validation of our proposed solution has been engaged by testing them in two representative public schools. The results demonstrate that this educational software for learning stimulates the cognitive development and improves the comprehension of children, with an effective quantitative assessment based on a constructivist paradigm.

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“…Unity offers modules capable of publishing applications to many platforms, as well as webbased applications using the Unity plugins [32][33] [34]. As we illustrated in Fig.…”

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Playful and interactive environment-based augmented reality to stimulate learning of children

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2016 18th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)

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“…Moreover, very few applications allow the exportation of data to track gaming results for measuring children´s behavioral use and game playability. The possibility of measuring the academic sense of the use of videogames as serious games has the potential to provide useful information to demonstrate how educational digital games can stimulate the cognitive development of children [5]. On the other hand, academic experts in Learning Analytics (LA) explain the existence of applications that allow building dashboards from data or traces left by a user on the network [6].…”

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Statistical Representations of a Dashboard to Monitor Educational Videogames in Natural Language

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This paper explains how Natural Language (NL) processing by computers, through smart programs as a way of Machine Learning (ML), can represent large sets of quantitative data as written statements. The study recognized the need to improve the implemented web platform using a dashboard in which we collected a set of extensive data to measure assessment factors of using children’s educational games. In this case, applying NL is a strategy to give assessments, build, and display more precise written statements to enhance the understanding of children’s gaming behavior.We propose the development of a new tool to assess the use of written explanations rather than a statistical representation of feedback information for the comprehension of parents and teachers with a lack of primary level knowledge in statistics. Applying fuzzy logic theory, we present verbatim explanations of children’s behavior playing educational videogames as NL interpretation instead of statistical representations. An educational series of digital game applications for mobile devices, identified as MIDI (Spanish acronym of “Interactive Didactic Multimedia for Children”) linked to a dashboard in the cloud, is evaluated using the dashboard metrics. MIDI games tested in local primary schools helps to evaluate the results of using the proposed tool. The guiding results allow analyzing the degrees of playability and usability factors obtained from the data produced when children play a MIDI game. The results obtained are presented in a comprehensive guiding evaluation report applying NL for parents and teachers. These guiding evaluations are useful to enhance children’s learning understanding related to the school curricula applied to ludic digital games.

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“…The overlap between large distributed simulations and real‐time applications has been always present, and it is increasing fast recently because of the circumstances raised from the current new trends, such as Cloud computing , intelligent transportation systems , green computing , and virtual environments . As the overlap increases, new challenges appear, mostly for enabling applications, like serious gaming , virtual and augmented reality, and collaborative virtual environments , to execute seamlessly on distributed resources .…”

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“…As the overlap increases, new challenges appear, mostly for enabling applications, like serious gaming [10], virtual and augmented reality, and collaborative virtual environments [11], to execute seamlessly on distributed resources [12][13][14].This special issue intends to collect the state-of-the-art research works that include a set of concepts on high performance computing; design, modeling, and validation of distributed real-time systems; and multi-agent control and simulation systems. This issue also presents as objective to enable access to future trends and directions in the scope of simulations and real-time systems, covering cloud-based simulations, simulation in GPUs, and implementation of distributed virtual environment applications.…”

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New advances in large‐scale distributed simulation and real‐time applications

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The overlap between large distributed simulations and real-time applications [1][2][3] has been always present, and it is increasing fast recently because of the circumstances raised from the current new trends, such as Cloud computing [4,5], intelligent transportation systems [1,6], green computing [7,8], and virtual environments [2,9]. As the overlap increases, new challenges appear, mostly for enabling applications, like serious gaming [10], virtual and augmented reality, and collaborative virtual environments [11], to execute seamlessly on distributed resources [12][13][14].This special issue intends to collect the state-of-the-art research works that include a set of concepts on high performance computing; design, modeling, and validation of distributed real-time systems; and multi-agent control and simulation systems. This issue also presents as objective to enable access to future trends and directions in the scope of simulations and real-time systems, covering cloud-based simulations, simulation in GPUs, and implementation of distributed virtual environment applications.Nine articles have been chosen from a strict selective process; all of these articles have been thoroughly reviewed by highly qualified anonymous referees. The articles cover a variety of important and challenging topics in the areas of large-scale distributed simulations and real-time systems.Matthew Forshaw, et. al.[15] present a new scalable simulator of High-Throughput Computing systems (HTC-Sim) incorporating real workloads and distinguishing itself by accepting to model multi-use clusters and interactive users. Their model is specially built to work with HTCSim and allow different HTC system policies to be incorporated in the simulation system. Being a large-scale simulation software, HTC-Sim provides the ability to model multi-use clusters and the presence of interactive users; thus, it enables fault tolerance and evaluation of server's energy consumption in HTC using different resource allocation policies.Arthur Valadares, Eugenia Gabrielova, and Cristina Lopes [16] introduce a conceptual framework for facilitating the design and testing of distributed real-time systems and applications. In their work, they define six properties and concerns while designing a Distributed Real Time (DRT) system. These properties are showcased in real-life, popular examples from different applicable domains in the field of distributed virtual environments. The re-evaluation of the concerns raised in this work shows the importance of some aspect in enhancing user quality of experience in such environments.Xiaosong Li, Wentong Cai, and Stephen John Turner [17] propose two major techniques in improving execution performance of Agent-based simulations on GPUs. Their innovative techniques consist of making use of an AgentPool and a location-based shared memory management. The AgentPool is introduced to support efficient agent creation and deletion and to enhance the CUDA native memory allocation for agent-based simulations. The memory management employs ...

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Multi-player Educational Video Game over Cloud to Stimulate Logical Reasoning of Children

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

Playful and interactive environment-based augmented reality to stimulate learning of children

Playful and interactive environment-based augmented reality to stimulate learning of children

Statistical Representations of a Dashboard to Monitor Educational Videogames in Natural Language

New advances in large‐scale distributed simulation and real‐time applications

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