Interdisciplinary Advancements in Gaming, Simulations and Virtual Environments: Emerging Trends

Interdisciplinary Advancements in Gaming, Simulations and Virtual Environments: Emerging Trends

Richard E. Ferdig, Sara de Freitas

Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 390

ISBN13: 9781466600294|ISBN10: 1466600292|EISBN13: 9781466600300

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0029-4

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Gaming has long been a means for humans to share knowledge, learn new concepts, and escape the constraints of reality.

Interdisciplinary Advancements in Gaming, Simulations and Virtual Environments: Emerging Trends investigates the role of games and computer-mediated simulations in a variety of environments, including education, government, and business. Exploring psychological, social, and cultural implications of games and simulations, as well as policies related to their design and development, this reference aims to support the work of researchers in this growing field, as well as bridge the gap between theory and practice in the application of electronic games to everyday situations.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Toward a Theory of Game-Media Literacy: Playing and Building as Reading and Writing (pages 1-17)

Idit Harel Caperton

This paper discusses varied ideas on games, learning, and digital literacy for 21st-century education as theorized and practiced by the author and James Paul Gee, and their colleagues. With attention to games as means for learning...

Chapter 2

Narratizing Disciplines and Disciplinizing Narratives: Games as 21st Century Curriculum (pages 18-31)

Sasha A. Barab, Melissa Gresalfi, Tyler Dodge, Adam Ingram-Goble

Education is about revealing possibility and exciting passions, empowering learners with the disciplinary expertise to meaningfully act on problematic contexts in which applying disciplinary knowledge is important. Toward this end...

Chapter 3

Exploring Cognitive Load in Immersive Educational Games: The SAVE Science Project (pages 32-40)

Brian C. Nelson, Diane Jass Ketelhut, Catherine Schifter

SAVE Science is a research project focused on creating an innovative model for assessment of learning in STEM. In SAVE Science, we are implementing game-like modules for evaluating science content and inquiry in grades 7-8, using an...

Chapter 4

Multi-Modal Investigations of Relationship Play in Virtual Worlds (pages 41-50)

Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah Fields, Kristin A. Searle

Millions of youth have joined virtual worlds to hang out with each other. However, capturing their interactions is no easy feat given the complexity of virtual worlds, their 24/7 availability, and distributed access from different...

Chapter 5

A Next Gen Interface for Embodied Learning: SMALLab and the Geological Layer Cake (pages 51-60)

David Birchfield, Mina Johnson-Glenberg

Emerging research from the learning sciences and human-computer interaction supports the premise that learning is effective when it is embodied, collaborative, and multimodal. In response, we have developed a mixed-reality...

Chapter 6

Wee Wii: Preschoolers and Motion-Based Game Play (pages 61-77)

J. Alison Bryant, Anna Akerman, Jordana Drell

In this paper, the authors specifically focus on the opportunities and challenges presented by the Nintendo Wii to preschoolers in context to three key objectives in order to facilitate game development: First, to understand the...

Chapter 7

Decoupling Aspects in Board Game Modeling (pages 78-96)

Fulvio Frapolli, Amos Brocco, Apostolos Malatras, Béat Hirsbrunner

Existing research on computer enhanced board games is mainly focused on user interaction issues and look-and-feel, however, this overlooks the flexibility of traditional board games when it comes to game rule handling. In this...

Chapter 8

Effects of Playing a History-Simulation Game: Romance of Three Kingdoms (pages 97-119)

Shiang-Kwei Wang

Studies on game-based learning usually investigate at least one of three subjects: the effects of gaming on learning performance, the effects of gaming on cognitive skills and attitudes, and learners’ game-design experiences. Whether...

Chapter 9

The Design of Virtual Space: Lessons from Videogame Travel (pages 120-141)

Steve Guynup

Videogames are the starting point for the general understanding of virtual space. (Grove & Williams, 1998). Academics use videogames to describe virtual space (Murray, 1997; Nitsche, 2009). Others argue that there is no...

Chapter 10

Effects of Built-in Audio versus Unrelated Background Music on Performance in an Adventure Role-Playing Game (pages 142-164)

Siu-Lan Tan, John Baxa, Matthew P. Spackman

This article presents an empirical study of the role of video game audio on performance. Twenty participants played The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii console for a 45-minute session on five consecutive days. Employing...

Chapter 11

Measuring Student Perceptions: Designing an Evidenced Centered Activity Model for a Serious Educational Game Development Software (pages 165-182)

Leonard A. Annetta, Shawn Holmes, Meng-Tzu Cheng

As educational games become more pervasive, the evolution of game design software is inevitable. This study looked at student perceptions of teacher created Serious Educational Games as part of a project striving to create a game...

Chapter 12

Computer-Generated Three-Dimensional Training Environments: The Simulation, User, and Problem-Based Learning (SUPL) Approach (pages 183-201)

Michael Garrett, Mark McMahon

Problem-based learning is an instructional strategy that emphasises the accumulation and development of knowledge via an active and experiential based approach to solving problems. This pedagogical framework can be instantiated using...

Chapter 13

Friendship, Closeness and Disclosure in Second Life (pages 202-215)

Don Heider, Adrienne L. Massanari

3-D virtual realms offer places for people to go interact, play games, and even do business. As these realms themselves become more sophisticated, the number of participants grows and the level and type of social interactions change....

Chapter 14

Computer Gaming Scenarios for Product Development Teams (pages 216-233)

Andrew J. Wodehouse, William J. Ion

In this paper, computer gaming approaches are introduced as a viable means to structure the interaction of a product development team during concept generation. During concept generation, teams gather large amounts of information...

Chapter 15

Adaptive Interactive Narrative Model to Teach Ethics (pages 234-248)

Rania Hodhod, Daniel Kudenko, Paul Cairns

Promoting ethical, responsible, and caring young people is a perennial aim of education. Efforts have been made to find ways of teaching other than traditional ones like games and role play. Narrative-based computer games are...

Chapter 16

Bio-Affective Computer Interface for Game Interaction (pages 249-265)

Jorge Arroyo-Palacios, Daniela M. Romano

Affective bio-feedback can be an important instrument to enhance the game experience. Several studies have provided evidence of the usefulness of physiological signals for affective gaming; however, due to the limited knowledge about...

Chapter 17

Evaluating User Experience of Actual and Imagined Movement in BCI Gaming (pages 266-280)

Bram van de Laar, Boris Reuderink, Danny Plass-Oude Bos, Dirk Heylen

Most research on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) focuses on developing ways of expression for disabled people who are not able to communicate through other means. Recently it has been shown that BCI can also be used in games to give...

Chapter 18

Towards Games for Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling (pages 281-299)

Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Bart Schotten, Peter Lucas

Many model-based methods in AI require formal representation of knowledge as input. For the acquisition of highly structured, domain-specific knowledge, machine learning techniques still fall short, and knowledge elicitation and...

Chapter 19

Automated Event Recognition for Football Commentary Generation (pages 300-315)

Maliang Zheng, Daniel Kudenko

The enjoyment of many games can be enhanced by in-game commentaries. In this paper, the authors focus on the automatic generation of commentaries for football games, using Championship Manager as a case study. The basis of this...

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