Serious games continuum: Between games for purpose and experiential environments for purpose

Marsh, Tim

doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2010.12.004

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“…Video games that have other than entertainment-related purposes for a player are commonly referred as serious games [1]. Such purposes could be developing skills, conveying meaning, delivering a message, teaching a lesson, providing experience and emotions, or changing behavior and attitudes [2].…”

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Impact of Serious Games on Health and Well-being of Elderly: A Systematic Review

Nguyen¹,

Ishmatova²,

Tapanainen³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

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Impact of Serious Games on Health and Well-being of Elderly: A Systematic Review

Nguyen¹,

Ishmatova²,

Tapanainen³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

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“…But not all games are competitions; there are games where players cooperate to achieve a common goal and there are no individual objectives. Games may be played just for fun but there are games, called serious games, which have a clear and intentional educational purpose and they are not intended primarily for entertainment [9].…”

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Social Mpower: An Educational Game for Energy Efficiency

Bourazeri

Pitt

Arnab

2016

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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Abstract. A number of serious games have been developed for energy systems that act as an educational tool and help energy consumers to better understand concepts such as resource allocation, electricity prices and grid sustainability. In such gamified environments, players use technology to solve environmental problems including greener environment, optimised energy and water infrastructure, sustainable resources and reduced energy use. Social Mpower game is a representation of an autonomous energy community for local power generation and distribution in which the participants have to avoid a collective blackout by individually reducing their energy consumption by synchronising and coordinating their actions. Our experimental hypothesis is that collective awareness can be enhanced by appropriate features of the game interface, and therefore to increase the opportunities and prospects for successful collective action (e.g to avoid a blackout).

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“…Many well-surveyed publications in the emerging serious games literature highlight the often conflicting interpretations of serious games in an attempt to pin-down what the term actually encapsulates [16]. It challenges our understanding of characteristics such as, challenge, play and fun, which are fully associated with video games.…”

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“…Characteristics such as being thought-provoking, informative, awareness-raising or stimulating are as important, if not more so, than being fun or entertaining. In this sense, we adopted Marsh's definition [16], which considers serious games along a continuum that can be framed between games with a specific purpose at one end, and environments for experiencing, with little or no gaming features at the other end.…”

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Development of a mechanical maintenance training simulator in OpenSimulator for F-16 aircraft engines

Pinheiro

Fernandes

Maia

et al. 2014

Entertainment Computing

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This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Development of a mechanical maintenance training simulator inOpenSimulator for F-16 aircraft engines AbstractMechanical maintenance of F-16 engines is carried out as a team effort involving 3 to 4 skilled engine technicians, but the details of its procedures and requisites change constantly, to improve safety, optimize resources, and respond to knowledge learned from field outcomes. This provides a challenge for development of training simulators, since simulated actions risk becoming obsolete rapidly and require costly reimplementation. This paper presents the development of a 3D mechanical maintenance training simulator for this context, using a low-cost simulation platform and a software architecture that separates simulation control from simulation visualization, in view of enabling more agile adaptation of simulators. This specific simulator aims to enable technician training to be enhanced with cooperation and context prior to the training phase with actual physical engines. We provide data in support of the feasibility of this approach, describing the requirements that were identified with the Portuguese Air Force, the overall software architecture of the system, the current stage of the prototype, and the outcomes of the first field tests with users.

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Serious games continuum: Between games for purpose and experiential environments for purpose

Cited by 160 publications

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Impact of Serious Games on Health and Well-being of Elderly: A Systematic Review

Impact of Serious Games on Health and Well-being of Elderly: A Systematic Review

Social Mpower: An Educational Game for Energy Efficiency

Development of a mechanical maintenance training simulator in OpenSimulator for F-16 aircraft engines

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