A Review on Mobile Game Learning Applications Trends

Abstract

Technology has become the most priority in everyday life for everybody. It has been used for variety of uses such as for military, manufacturing, medical and education. Nowadays, young generation or youth has been exposed drastically with the latest technology and most of them are very high-tech students. Besides that, mobile technology has been grown rapidly and from this experiencing of mobile technology, the prices for mobile devices has been dropped or reduced which make the most people become capable to own a mobile device. As we known, the mobile device has provided various function and application. One of them is a games application that allows the user to have a learning experience. The game application has been used for learning purposes in education which included in various types of games and different learning content. This paper aim to systematically review in this topic of mobile game application for learning. A total of 42 papers were identified and 10 papers were included for this review. The review will be focusing on the acceptance of the mobile game application for learning. The reviewed papers have been selected using different search engines and the papers have been filtered to meet the objective of this paper. Most of the reviewed paper show positive effect on the usage of the game application for learning and improve their learning process. Mobile game application which has been used for learning is not a new field as the paper reviewed from this study is from 2012 until 2019. It will keep continue as mobile technology has become necessity in everyday life.

Short-Term Touch-Screen Video Game Playing Improves the Inhibition Ability

“…Playing touchscreen video games may maintain or improve EF ability and potentially contribute to other cognitive functions. In recent years, there has also been a growing body of research on the use of games to assess and train cognitive abilities in a variety of ways [38][39][40][41][42]. Specialized and standardized therapeutic applications of video gaming may help people with EF deficits to maintain cognitive functions [43].…”