Serious Games, Interaction, and Simulation: 5th International Conference, Sgames 2015, Novedrate, Italy, September 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Paper

ISBN-13: 9783319290591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 139 str.

Antonio Coelho; Carlos Vaz De Carvalho; Paula Escudeiro

Opis

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Serious Games, Interaction, and Simulation, held in Novedrate, Italy, in September 2015.
The 16 revised full papers together with 2 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. They focus on the design, development, use, and application of games for purposes other than entertainment. As such they cover areas like cognition, psychology, technology-enhanced education, evaluation and assessment, multimedia and information technology, and feature new scientific approaches and results from experiments and real-life applications.

Spis treści

Applying a Serious Game Quality Model.- Dynamic Serious Games Balancing.- Relation Between Game Genres and Competences for In-game Certification.- Serious Games for the Cognitive Stimulation of Adults: a proposal of a pilot project.- VirtualSign in Serious Games.- The Design and Study of a Serious Game for Attention Training of the Older Adults.- Sensitizing: Helping Children Design Serious Games for a Surrogate Population.- Chess Playing and Mathematics: an Exploratory Study in the South African Context.- A Virtual City Environment for Engineering Problem Based Learning.- Knowledge Improvement of Dental Students in Thailand and UK through an Online Serious Game in Dental Public Health.- A Gamified Community for Fostering Learning Engagement towards Preventing Early School Leaving.- Serious computer games design for active learning in teacher education.- Enabling Control of 3D Visuals, Scenarios and Non-Linear Gameplay in Serious Game Development through Model-Driven Authoring.- Serious Games For Large-Scale Image Sensing.- Game Social Tech Booster.- BIM to IoT: The Persistence Problem.