Understanding Learners’ Behaviors in Serious Games

Muratet, Mathieu; Yessad, Amel; Carron, Thibault

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47440-3_22

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“…Proposed frameworks:  Some frameworks have been proposed to simplify tasks in serious game design, including: two game analytics frameworks for people with intellectual disabilities (García-Tejedor, Cano, and Fernández-Manjón 2016; Nguyen, Gardner, and Sheridan 2018), a game-based assessment model (Halverson and Owen 2014), a framework to integrate design of event-stream features for analysis (Owen and Baker 2018), a framework to support tracking and analysis of learners in-game activities (Hauge et al 2014), a framework to help designers model experts' solving process almost automatically (Muratet, Yessad, and Carron 2016), an interoperable adaptivity framework (Streicher and Roller 2017), a framework for internet-scale experiments to inform and be informed by classroom and lab experiments (Stamper et al 2012), an open-source SGs framework for sustainability (Y. Xu et al 2014) and a framework for a mobile game application for adults with cystic fibrosis (Vagg et al 2018).…”

Section: Importance Of Serious Games Characteristicsmentioning

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Applications of data science to game learning analytics data: A systematic literature review

Alonso‐Fernández

Calvo-Morata

Freire

et al. 2019

Computers & Education

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Data science techniques, nowadays widespread across all fields, can also be applied to the wealth of information derived from student interactions with serious games. Use of data science techniques can greatly improve the evaluation of games, and allow both teachers and institutions to make evidence-based decisions. This can increase both teacher and institutional confidence regarding the use of serious games in formal education, greatly raising their attractiveness. This paper presents a systematic literature review on how authors have applied data science techniques on game analytics data and learning analytics data from serious games to determine: (1) the purposes for which data science has been applied to game learning analytics data, (2) which algorithms or analysis techniques are commonly used, (3) which stakeholders have been chosen to benefit from this information and (4) which results and conclusions have been drawn from these applications. Based on the categories established after the mapping and the findings of the review, we discuss the limitations of the studies analyzed and propose recommendations for future research in this field.

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Section: Importance Of Serious Games Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Applications of data science to game learning analytics data: A systematic literature review

Alonso‐Fernández

Calvo-Morata

Freire

et al. 2019

Computers & Education

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“…This functionality generates in-game hints to help players depending on their difficulties. The monitoring module integrated into the game is compatible with ECS architecture [20] and enables to monitor players' activities either at the level of entities (local monitoring) or at the level of families (set of entitiesglobal monitoring).…”

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Accessibility and Serious Games: What About Entity-Component-System Software Architecture?

Muratet

Garbarini

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Video games are an integral part of popular culture. The video game industry faces challenges with the increase in players' numbers and application areas including serious games. The increase in the number of players includes disabled players. Therefore, serious games have to consider these audiences who may be affected by one or more temporary or ongoing disabilities. Universally accessible games (UA-Games) aim to create interfaces that can be accessed and manipulated by the largest number of players. Currently few serious games include accessibility features, while accessibility should be considered at the beginning of the serious game design. Then how can we help designers and developers to include accessible features in an existing serious game? To this end, game engines must be efficient but also scalable and modular. This paper studies the interest of the Entity-Component-System (ECS) software architecture to integrate accessibility features in an existing serious game. As a case study, we will take a serious game developed with ECS yet not accessible: E-LearningScape. We will present the accessible features that we have integrated into the serious game and discuss the pros and cons of this approach. This feedback shows us that ECS provides very useful design flexibility to integrate unanticipated interaction features into serious games.

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“…We proposed a solution in [10] for the first workflow (the feedback loop) and detailed the algorithm that exploits Petri nets properties to analyze the learners' actions, to characterize them with pedagogical labels, and to calculate a label-based score. These pedagogical labels provide users, and particularly teachers, with information about the learner's behavior such as, correct actions, erroneous actions, actions taking place too late or too early in the learner's solving process.…”

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“…Is the player stuck and can no longer progress in the game (no transition is reachable from the current game state)? See [10] for more details.…”

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How to assist designers to model learning games with Petri nets?

Muratet¹,

Yessad

Carron³

2022

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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In previous research, we presented a methodological framework that provides players with adaptive feedback. The core of this framework relies on modeling the learning game with a Petri net. However, this modeling is a challenging task. Indeed, Petri nets are well adapted to model dynamic and complex systems but require a mastery of the underlying mathematical formalism to build them manually. In particular, when the learning game is characterized by a large freedom of action. In this paper, we present an authoring tool and its domain-specific language to assist designers to model learning games with Petri nets. We carried out a case study where our contribution was implemented. Results show that our contribution helps designers to build the Petri net in combination with classical Petri net editors which are still useful to visualize, to check and to validate the Petri nets built.

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Understanding Learners’ Behaviors in Serious Games

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Applications of data science to game learning analytics data: A systematic literature review

Applications of data science to game learning analytics data: A systematic literature review

Accessibility and Serious Games: What About Entity-Component-System Software Architecture?

How to assist designers to model learning games with Petri nets?

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