Authoring of Adaptive Serious Games

Hendrix, Maurice; Knutov, Evgeny; Auneau, Laurent; Protopsaltis, Aristidis; Arnab, Sylvester; Dunwell, Ian; Petridis, Panagiotis; Freitas, Sara de

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33263-0_58

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“…As the previous section indicates, while research on adaptive game difficulty exists, ubiquitous models or frameworks demonstrating how a game developer can practically incorporate adaptive game difficulty are lacking. Based on our experience in game development and evaluation [12], [46]- [54], as well as teaching game development, we propose the following pragmatic six step plan for implementing adaptive difficulty:…”

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Implementing Adaptive Game Difficulty Balancing in Serious Games

Hendrix

Bellamy-Wood

McKay³

et al. 2019

IEEE Trans. Games

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Implementing Adaptive Game Difficulty Balancing in Serious Games

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IEEE Trans. Games

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“…The different scenarios with the same learning goal provide alternative ways for players to learn in different ways. The design of alternative scenarios in the educational context can be achieved at the designing stage by adjusting the variables or conditions in the game scenario (Hendrix et al, 2013).…”

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Personalised Learning through Context-Based Adaptation in the Serious Games with Gating Mechanism

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When the traditional "one size fits all" approach is used in designing educational games, the game context is usually arranged in a fixed sequence. However, the designated content may not effectively support the diversity of players. The player's ability and characteristics should be considered and supported with an appropriate learning context embedded in the game to facilitate personalised experiences. Adapting game scenarios to a player's characteristics can boost motivation and ultimately improve learning outcomes. This research applies a context-aware design approach and the Learner-Centered Design approach to establish a personalised adaptation framework for designing educational serious games and enhancing personalised knowledge delivery. The proposed framework decouples the game logic implementation and adaptation mechanism. It dynamically adapts the designed game objects and activities to personal learning objectives, learning levels and learning progress to achieve a non-linear learning sequence. Through synchronous real-time xAPI message exchange mechanisms, system components and learning content adaptation are enabled. The adaptation aims to fit personal learning objectives and provide a non-linear learning sequence in a game environment. The framework provides students with personalised learning experiences. A game named GhostCoder is implemented and used to evaluate the framework. Based on the externalised adaptive mechanism, the game content is adapted to the player's performance by adjusting the difficulty of the learning content within the game. Testing of the game in the lab environment has been performed. At the next stage, an evaluation will be conducted with the target groups of students.

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“…A more comprehensive description is needed for our experiences sharing tool. Therefore we have defined a comprehensive serious games metadata schema (Hendrix et al, 2012). This schema is based on a comprehensive four dimensional framework for evaluating serious games proposed in (S. De Freitas & Oliver, 2005) and existing Serious Games classifications.…”

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“…The experience of building the tool, as well as the observations on how a teacher or parent might search for a serious game, has made it necessary to update the metadata schema. In figures 2 and 3, we present our updated metadata schema, highlighting the fields that have changed compared to (Hendrix et al, 2012) in bold. The proposed rating tool is based on this metadata schema as shown in Figure 2.…”

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“…These standards however lack both key technical aspects, such as the target platform, as well as key descriptive aspects of games, such as the intended age group or game genre and are thus not sufficient to describe educational games. In order to remedy this situation, we have previously introduced a metadata schema for describing serious games (Hendrix et al, 2012), for integration with the IEEE LOM (Committee, 2001) standard. As games often combine multiple learning objectives they can be used in various situations with diverse purposes, for example with different groups of learners or even to teach different topics.…”

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A Rating Tool for Sharing Experiences with Serious Games

Hendrix

Backlund

Vampula³

2014

International Journal of Game-Based Learning

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The potential of Computer Games for non-entertainment purposes, such as education, is well established. A wide variety of games have been developed for the educational market, covering subjects such as mathematics and languages. However, while a growing industry developing educational games exist, the practical uptake in schools is not as high as one would expect, based on current evidence of their effectiveness. The EduGameLab project investigates causes and solutions to the relatively low level of uptake in European schools. This paper describes a rating tool for sharing experiences about educational games among educators and parents, developed in the EduGameLab project. The ambition is that sharing knowledge about how games can be used in practice will stimulate practical use and acceptance. The development of this tool is based on a metadata schema for formally describing serious games and experiences with these games.

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Authoring of Adaptive Serious Games

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Implementing Adaptive Game Difficulty Balancing in Serious Games

Implementing Adaptive Game Difficulty Balancing in Serious Games

Personalised Learning through Context-Based Adaptation in the Serious Games with Gating Mechanism

A Rating Tool for Sharing Experiences with Serious Games

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