E-Learning Takes the Stage: From La Dama Boba to a Serious Game

Iglesias, Borja M.; Fernández-Vara, Clara; Fernández‐Manjón, Baltasar

doi:10.1109/rita.2013.2285023

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“…Regarding this first goal, the authors have previous experience creating serious games based on the performing arts [32]- [34]. The videogame "The Courtesy of Spain" was explicitly designed for the present study, in collaboration with the Spanish National Classical Theatre Company (CNTC) and based on the play of the same name by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega (see Figure 1).…”

Section: Game Designmentioning

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Comparison of a Tablet Versus Computer-Based Classical Theatre Game Among 8–13 Year Children

2021

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In the last ten years, many studies have shown the advantages of videogames as tools for learning, engagement, raising awareness, or increasing interest in different fields. Schools are often the main focus of those studies. However, schools have either PCs or tablets in their classrooms, but rarely have both. That represents a severe limitation to videogame researchers since they can only deploy their video games in schools with the adequate platform for their video games. Researchers are therefore restricted in the number of schools in which they can conduct their experiments. In this paper, we study a videogame's effectiveness in increasing interest towards classical theatre, depending on the platform deployed (computer or mobile device). To that aim, we used "The Courtesy of Spain," a point-and-click videogame created explicitly for this study, based on the play of the same name by Golden Age playwright Lope de Vega. To measure the abovementioned effectiveness, we implemented a quasi-experimental design with a comparison and an experimental group. The experiment involved 542 students between 8 and 13 years old from several middle schools in Madrid's Community (Spain). The study indicates that the videogame developed is equally effective on both devices (Sig <0.05). Our results will allow serious game developers to design one-fits-all games without jeopardizing their efficiency, which broadens the target schools where their games can be tested.

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Section: Game Designmentioning

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Comparison of a Tablet Versus Computer-Based Classical Theatre Game Among 8–13 Year Children

2021

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“…Games have become an integral part of human life, not only for entertainment but also to help understand and learn serious jobs, such as education, strategic planning, and physical training. Serious games refer to the category of games in which the focus is tilted more towards strategies and learning rather than mere entertainment [ 1 ]. Serious games have proven to be remarkably productive not only as a learning tool in many domains, such as engineering, healthcare, physics, and history [ 2 , 3 , 4 ], but also in playfully achieving a particular job.…”

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Architecting Intelligent Smart Serious Games for Healthcare Applications: A Technical Perspective

Ahmad

Mehmood

Khan

et al. 2022

Sensors

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The immune system of human beings plays a pivotal role in guarding against different types of diseases. During the COVID-19 pandemic, people with weak immune systems were more likely to die. Regular physical activities and healthy food intake can significantly improve the immune system; however, people with a sedentary lifestyle and a busy job schedule find it challenging and tedious to maintain regularity. Different approaches have been used over the years to engage people in various physical activities and improve their mental and physical health. The concept of employing serious games (games whose primary purpose is not fun or entertainment, but a serious goal) to effectuate better results has become one of the popular choices among healthcare professionals and research communities. Internet of things (IoT) has enabled digital transformation with smart cities, smart infrastructure, and the fourth industrial revolution. There have been some relevant studies on the encouragement of serious games in healthcare in the past few years. However, few research studies encourage IoT-enabled serious games played with IoT devices (sensors and actuators) by making the game experience more ubiquitous and pervasive. Consequently, the adaptation of the IoT in serious games for healthcare applications is a massive gap despite its growing need in an era significantly affected by COVID-19. This paper discusses the possibilities of integrating serious games with IoT and discusses the standard architecture, core technologies, and possible challenges. Finally, we present a prototype architecture and its various components and a qualitative analysis with recent studies.

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“…The success of games for entertainment purposes, especially among younger generations, has made them of interest for researchers in different fields such as mathematics, physics, engineering, medicine, economics, history or literature [1]- [2]- [3]- [4]. In the field of education, their engaging and goaloriented nature encourages students to outdo themselves while learning key concepts derived from educational plans.…”

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Systematizing game learning analytics for serious games

Alonso‐Fernández

Calvo

Freire

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

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-Applying games in education provides multiple benefits clearly visible in entertainment games: their engaging, goal-oriented nature encourages students to improve while they play. Educational games, also known as Serious Games (SGs) are video games designed with a main purpose other than pure entertainment; their main purpose may be to teach, to change an attitude or behavior, or to create awareness of a certain issue. As educators and game developers, the validity and effectiveness of these games towards their defined educational purposes needs to be both measurable and measured. Fortunately, the highly interactive nature of games makes the application of Learning Analytics (LA) perfect to capture students' interaction data with the purpose of better understanding or improving the learning process. However, there is a lack of widely adopted standards to communicate information between games and their tracking modules. Game Learning Analytics (GLA) combines the educational goals of LA with technologies that are commonplace in Game Analytics (GA), and also suffers from a lack of standards adoption that would facilitate its use across different SGs. In this paper, we describe two key steps towards the systematization of GLA: 1), the use of a newly-proposed standard tracking model to exchange information between the SG and the analytics platform, allowing reusable tracker components to be developed for each game engine or development platform; and 2), the use of standardized analysis and visualization assets to provide general but useful information for any SG that sends its data in the aforementioned format. These analysis and visualizations can be further customized and adapted for particular games when needed. We examine the use of this complete standard model in the GLA system currently under development for use in two EU H2020 SG projects.

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E-Learning Takes the Stage: From La Dama Boba to a Serious Game

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Comparison of a Tablet Versus Computer-Based Classical Theatre Game Among 8–13 Year Children

Comparison of a Tablet Versus Computer-Based Classical Theatre Game Among 8–13 Year Children

Architecting Intelligent Smart Serious Games for Healthcare Applications: A Technical Perspective

Systematizing game learning analytics for serious games

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