Reasons and Responses: A Multimodal Serious Games Evaluation Framework

Shoukry, Laila; Göbel, Stefan

doi:10.1109/tetc.2017.2737953

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“…Some recent trends suggest the use of metrics based on the analysis of educational facets and playability attributes integrated with usability and quality of use ( Figure 2), based on integrated metrics or multicriteria [83,84].…”

Section: Mixed Methods Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Outstanding Videogames on Water: A Quality Assessment Review Based on Evidence of Narrative, Gameplay and Educational Criteria

Ouariachi

Pérez

Olvera‐Lobo

et al. 2018

Water

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Videogames have become educational, communicative and social tools among the young, favouring the acquisition of skills, abilities and values, encompassing an endless number of themes, and helping them to experience and to face, in the first person, a great diversity of environmental situations and ecology problems. Thus, the present article aims: (a) to evaluate a sample of 20 educational videogames about water, making use of some empirical criteria of quality; and (b) to design, validate and apply an integrated quality indicator of educational videogames on water, based on the aspects of narrative, gameplay and education, which allows us to obtain a ranking. The findings reflect a ranking of games allowing us to suggest that the nature of the game (simulation, adventures, platforms or questions) does not determine the quality of the game, although generally simulations and adventure games are placed in a range of medium- or high-quality, as well as those games that pursue objectives related to the design and management of a territory in a sustainable way. The paper provides teachers with quality criteria based on narrative and gameplay that complement and enrich the pedagogical dimension.

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Section: Mixed Methods Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Outstanding Videogames on Water: A Quality Assessment Review Based on Evidence of Narrative, Gameplay and Educational Criteria

Ouariachi

Pérez

Olvera‐Lobo

et al. 2018

Water

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“…The ultimate goal is to allow researchers to better understand relationships among data and provide them with additional information from natural settings. For instance, finding out if a pause in gameplay activity is due to experiencing frustration, reflecting on playing strategy or learning content or getting distracted by the environment can be important for evaluation (Other examples of such ambiguities can be found in the applications of Reasons and Responses Model described in [3]).…”

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“…Thus the amount of time they spend using such a game, preferring it to other activities, will depend on the positive experience they have during interaction. The Reasons and Responses Model [3] describes the different aspects of a Serious Game which are to be evaluated and classifies the following four dimensions: Learning, Gaming, Using and Context. Under each of these dimensions, different requirements need to be met to increase the quality of a Serious Game.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Realizing a Mobile Multimodal Platform for Serious Games Analytics

Shoukry

Göbel

2019

IJSG

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This paper presents the design and development of "StoryPlay Multimodal", a mobile multimodal analytics platform for the evaluation of Serious Games. It is intended to serve researchers, teachers and educational game developers as a means to assess their Serious Game Design. This is done by capturing, pre-processing, synchronizing and visualizing multimodal serious games analytics and mobile sensor data from playtesting sessions. By linking log data with multimodal data, it is possible to uncover relations between design elements, gameplay interactions, context parameters and affective and cognitive states. This is crucial for gaining full insight into the session, even if not present with the player at the same location. After discussing design requirements, the architecture of the software, the different modules, additional features, implementation challenges and solutions are presented. The testing settings, participants and results are also discussed to demonstrate how the evaluation procedure can be applied to deliver valuable outcomes for Serious Games Research.

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“…Mobile technology such as e-readers, laptops, smartphones, smartwatches and other wearables is increasingly commonplace (Johnson and Grainge 2015;Škařupová, Ólafsson, and Blinka 2016;Powell 2017;Shoukry and Gobel 2017;. Consequently, applications such as mobile video telephony, mobile television, mobile Internet, navigation and mobile games are growing in use (Bernhaupt and Pirker 2014;Hess, Knoche, and Wulf 2014;Lim et al 2015;Shaheen, Cohen, and Martin 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…. Third, mobile games serve a similar experience (Thompson, Nordin, and Cairns 2012;Shoukry and Gobel 2017). The mobile gaming platform is commonly used to immerse oneself away from the surroundings; for example, in China, South Korea, and Japan, mobile gaming is immensely popular, especially in the context of mass transit commuting (Liu and Li 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Enhancing the quality of service of mobile video technology by increasing multimodal synergy

Sluis

Broek

Drunen

et al. 2018

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Bandwidth is still a limiting factor for the Quality of Service (QoS) of mobile communication applications. In particular, for Voice over IP the QoS is not yet as good as for common, wellengineered, public-switched telephone networks. Multisensory communication has been identified as a possibility to moderate this limitation. One of the strengths of mobile video technology lies in its combination of visual and auditory modalities. However, one of the most salient features of mobile video applications is its small screen size. To test the potential of multimodal synergy for mobile devices, we assessed to what extent small screens affect multimodal synergy. This potential was assessed in an experiment with 54 participants, who conducted a standardised video-listening test for three talking-heads videos with a signal-tonoise ratio of-9 dB. The videos were presented on three different screen sizes, whilst keeping the video and auditory signals equal. Compared to a ground truth based on 359 participants, intelligibility was found to be significantly higher when using a large screen than when using a small screen. This indicates that mobile video technology has the potential for a significant multimodal synergy to which screen size is a substantial constraint. To optimally benefit from their multimodal potential, we offer suggestions on how to increase the effective screen size for small screen (e.g. mobile) devices and applications through elaborating the most relevant (visual) features. We conclude that knowledge about human sensory processing can alleviate the identified constraint and maximise the potential QoS of mobile video technology.

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Reasons and Responses: A Multimodal Serious Games Evaluation Framework

Cited by 12 publications

References 51 publications

Outstanding Videogames on Water: A Quality Assessment Review Based on Evidence of Narrative, Gameplay and Educational Criteria

Outstanding Videogames on Water: A Quality Assessment Review Based on Evidence of Narrative, Gameplay and Educational Criteria

Realizing a Mobile Multimodal Platform for Serious Games Analytics

Enhancing the quality of service of mobile video technology by increasing multimodal synergy

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