A Measure of Student Engagement for Serious Games and IoT

Henry, John; Tang, Stephen; Hannenghan, Martin; Carter, Chris

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65849-0_28

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“…The idea behind the term is games that incorporate the benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT) with the applications of serious games. Existing research in the field investigates measuring student engagement through the IoT and serious games [30]. Developing data algorithms forms a key component for the integration of IoT with games.…”

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Augmenting Virtual Spaces: Affective Feedback in Computer Games

Cunningham

Henry

Weinel³

2020

Springer Series on Cultural Computing

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Computer games can be considered a form of art insomuch as they are critiqued, revered and collected for their aesthetics in addition to their ludic qualities. Perhaps most significantly, computer games incite a plethora of emotional responses in their players as a deliberate and defining mechanism. However, unlike other forms of traditional media and art, another key feature of games is their intrinsic interactivity, reliance upon technology and non-linearity. These traits make them particularly noteworthy if one wishes to consider how art forms might respond and adapt to their audience's emotions. The field of affective computing has been developing for several decades and many of its applications have been in the analysis and modelling of emotional responses to forms of media, such as music and film. In gaming, recent developments have led to an increasing number of consumer-grade biofeedback devices which are available on the market, some of which are explicitly sold as 'gaming controllers', giving rise to greater opportunity for affective feedback to be incorporated. In this chapter, a review is provided of the affective gaming field. Specifically, it is proposed that these developments give rise to interesting opportunities whereby virtual environments can be augmented with player affective and contextual information. An overview is provided of affective computing fundamentals and their manifestation in developments relating specifically to games. The chapter considers the impact this biometric information has upon games players, in terms of their experience of the game and the social connections between competitors. A number of associated practical and technological challenges are highlighted along with areas for future research and development activities. It is hoped that by exploring these developments in gaming that the longer established forms of art and media might be inspired to further embrace the possibilities offered by utilising affective feedback.

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Section: The Internet Of Things and Gamesmentioning

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Augmenting Virtual Spaces: Affective Feedback in Computer Games

Cunningham

Henry

Weinel³

2020

Springer Series on Cultural Computing

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“…Our previous publication [28], suggested a data algorithm for measuring student engagement and defined the game points to be allocated. We have adjusted the data algorithm to reduce the strain on lecturers and students alike.…”

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“…• HQS: The highest measure from the questionnaires. More information on questionnaire scoring can be found in our previous publication [28]. Therefore, the highest possible engagement score is the best attendance score added to the best punctuality score for week, which the sum of is added to the highest possible measure of the questionnaire scores.…”

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“…To examine the effectiveness of our framework, we developed a multi-system game that merges IoT with Serious Games. The serious game quantifies behavioural student engagement and utilises questionnaires to measure cognitive and emotional engagement as practised in psychological research [28]. Research has been conducted into the measuring engagement of games through a questionnaire by J. Brockmyer et.al.…”

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“…In this paper we have presented a framework for the developing SSGs. Based on this framework we have developed a game that utilises IoT [29], data algorithms [28] and game engine technology to measure student engagement, by quantifying behavioural engagement and embedding cognitive and emotional engagement as game points through gameembedded questionnaires. At the time of writing, experiments are being conducted with university students from Liverpool John Moores University to determine the effectiveness of measuring student engagement through an SSG.…”

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A framework for the integration of serious games and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Henry

Tang

Hanneghan

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2018 IEEE 6th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)

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Serious Games and the Internet of Things are research topics of high interest. The integration of these two domains has the potential for innovative new applications. This paper presents a framework for the combination of Serious Games and the Internet of Things. In addition, we present the system architecture for a Smart Serious Game (SSG) developed for measuring student engagement, and define the difference between an event driven game and an SSG. This paper also includes the updated data algorithms for representing student engagement as game points, based on further consideration on our previous publication.

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A Measure of Student Engagement for Serious Games and IoT

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Augmenting Virtual Spaces: Affective Feedback in Computer Games

Augmenting Virtual Spaces: Affective Feedback in Computer Games

A framework for the integration of serious games and the Internet of Things (IoT)

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