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Serious Game Design and Development: Technologies for Training and Learning

Serious Game Design and Development: Technologies for Training and Learning

Jan Cannon-Bowers, Clint Bowers

Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 382

ISBN13: 9781615207398|ISBN10: 1615207392|EISBN13: 9781615207404|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616922665

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-739-8

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The increasing use of games in learning has drawn the attention of numerous disciplines within the scientific community now seeking to understand the nature of its effectiveness and guidance for how to best harness its innovative technology power.

Serious Game Design and Development: Technologies for Training and Learning examines high-tech delivery of pedagogical content in a simulated environment that engenders a deeper learning in an entertaining manner. Containing research from international experts, this leading publication within the field bridges the gap between development and science.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Does Game Technology Matter?

Preface

Chapters

Design Principles for Serious Games

Chapter 1

Mini-Games with Major Impacts (pages 1-12)

Peter A Smith, Alicia Sanchez

The concept of mini-games has long been associated with small uninspired games found in conventional Computer Based Training (CBT). They have traditionally been made up of simple quizzes or matching games that have done little to...

Chapter 2

Serious Storytelling: Narrative Considerations for Serious Games Researchers and Developers (pages 13-30)

Rudy McDaniel, Stephen M. Fiore, Denise Nicholson

In this chapter, the authors explore the nature and function of storytelling in serious games. Drawing from the field of narratology, they explore research related to narrative expression and relate those ideas to serious game design...

Chapter 3

An Adventure in Usability: Discovering Usability Where It Was Not Expected (pages 31-46)

Holly Blasko-Drabik, Tim Smoker, Carrie E. Murphy

Usability testing can be used as an effective tool throughout the design and development of a serious game. User responses to the usability measures can help designers meet the challenges of creating a game that is educational...

Chapter 4

Development of Game-Based Training Systems: Lessons Learned in an Inter-Disciplinary Field in the Making (pages 47-80)

Modern computer gaming technology offers a rich potential as a platform for the creation of compelling immersive training systems, and there have been a number of game-based training systems developed in recent years. However, the...

Chapter 5

DAU CardSim: Paper Prototyping an Acquisitions Card Game (pages 81-101)

David Metcalf, Sara Raasch, Clarissa Graffeo

This chapter discusses DAU CardSim, a multiplayer card game for teaching defense acquisition strategies, and addresses the challenges in moving from a paper prototype of the game to a digital version. This post-mortem will break down...

Chapter 6

Kinesthetic Communication for Learning in Immersive Worlds (pages 102-116)

Christopher Ault, Ann Warner-Ault, Ursula Wolz, Teresa Marrin Nakra

Despite the maturation of the video games medium, most self-identified learning games take the traditional but flawed approach of transmitting fact-based content to the user, frequently through the superimposition of “drill and...

Applications of Serious Games

Chapter 7

How Games and Simulations Can Help Meet America's Challenges in Science Mathematics and Technology Education (pages 117-133)

Henry Kelly

The quality of the U.S. workforce is critical for a competitive economy in today’s fast-paced, tightly connected global economy. Given current trends the quality of the U.S. workforce, measured in educational attainment and knowledge...

Chapter 8

Games for Peace: Empirical Investigations with PeaceMaker (pages 134-149)

Cleotilde Gonzalez, Lisa Czlonka

This chapter presents an investigation on decision-making in a dynamic and complex situation, the solution of international conflict, and the achievement of peace. The authors use an award winning video game to collect behavioral...

Chapter 9

Play's the Thing. A Wager on Healthy Aging (pages 150-177)

Mihai Nadin

This study highlights the findings of researchers who, since the early 1980s, recognized the potential of engaging seniors in game interactions as an alternative to passive activities. Against this background, the perspective of...

Chapter 10

Re-Purposing a Recreational Video Game as a Serious Game for Second Language Acquisition (pages 178-195)

Yolanda A. Rankin, Marcus W. Shute

Serious games designed for educational purposes promote acquisition of knowledge and skills that are valued in the both the virtual realm and the real world. However, the million dollar question is how do we design serious games that...

Games in Healthcare

Chapter 11

Application of behavioral theory in computer game design for health behavior change (pages 196-232)

Ross Shegog

Serious games are gaining profile as a novel strategy to impact health behavior change in the service of national health objectives. Research has indicated that many evidence-based programs are effective because they are grounded in...

Chapter 12

Avatars and Diagnosis: Delivering Medical Curricula in Virtual Space (pages 233-245)

Claudia L. McDonald

Medical education faces a host of obstacles in coming decades requiring that it rethink the way it delivers medical curricula, especially with regard to critical thinking and differential diagnostics. Traditional didactic curricula...

Chapter 13

Using Serious Games for Mental Health Education (pages 246-259)

Anya Andrews, Rachel Joyce, Clint Bowers

A significant number of research and experimentation efforts are currently underway to identify the effective ways of leveraging advanced gaming technologies towards the development of innovative training and education solutions for...

Chapter 14

Pervasive Health Games (pages 260-269)

Martin Knöll

Prevention and therapy of emerging lifestyle diseases are strongly linked to daily behavior, physical activity, and knowledge of healthy life. The potentials of serious game applications in a health context for user’s motivation...

Chapter 15

Influencing Physical Activity and Healthy Behaviors in College Students: Lessons from an Alternate Reality Game (pages 270-289)

Jeanne D. Johnston, Lee Sheldon, Anne P. Massey

Physical inactivity is largely preventable through education, individual, and/or community-based interventions. Yet, in the college-age population, traditional interventions (e.g., lecture-based academic courses) may not fully meet...

The Way Ahead

Chapter 16

Establishing a Science of Game Based Learning (pages 290-304)

Alicia Sanchez, Janis Cannon-Bowers, Clint Bowers

Using video games to train and educate is a notion that is gaining traction among gamers, parents, and serious educators alike. Unfortunately, to date there have been few rigorous studies to determine whether games can be effective...

Chapter 17

The Way Ahead for Serious Games (pages 305-310)

Jan Cannon-Bowers

Despite the fact that people have been playing games since before recorded history, the field of Serious Games—as a scientifically valid and viable area of investigation and application—is really in its infancy. In fact, the rise in...

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