A Serious Parlor Game

A serious parlor game.

Serious game evaluation as a meta-game

Purpose – This paper aims to briefly outline the seamless evaluation approach and its application during an evaluation of ORIENT, a serious game aimed at young adults. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, the authors detail a unobtrusive, embedded evaluation approach that occurs within the game context, adding value and entertainment to the player experience whilst accumulating useful d...

LawVille: a Collaborative Serious Game

SGs are (digital) games used for purposes other than mere entertainment using leaning-by-doing paradigm. Current internet technologies increase the capabilities of Web-Based Serious Games making them collaborative e-learning instruments. This paper presents LawVille, a Web-Based Collaborative Serious Game aimed at teaching citizenship and the Italian Constitution to secondary school students.

Serious Use of a Serious Game for Language Learning

The Tactical Language and Culture Training System (TLCTS) helps learners acquire basic communicative skills in foreign languages and cultures. Learners acquire communication skills through a combination of interactive lessons and serious games. Artificial intelligence plays multiple roles in this learning environment: to process the learner’s speech, to interpret and evaluate learner actions, t...

Second Life: game, simulator, or serious game?

Ten years after being launched in 2003, it is still a matter of discussion if Second Life (SL) is a virtual world, a computer game, a shopping site or a talker (communication software based on a MUD). This article reports on an exploratory case study conducted to analyze the Second Life (SL) environment and determine into which of training simulators, games, simulation games, or serious games c...