Editorial: Technical Creatives - Teaching Computer Games

Using games in Oncology Teaching

Introduction:Educational methods can be classified into two groups: active methods and passive ones. Applying games is an active approach in teaching. The present study aimed at investigating the effect of games on teaching oncology. Methods: Twenty three medical students participated in the study. They took two class sessions of oncology. In the first session the basic principles and concepts...

Teaching Mathematics to Children with Mental Retardation using Computer Games

This experimental study investigated whether computer games help in teaching Mathematics to children with mental retardation and whether computer games help equally both boys and girls. The quasi-experimental two-group pre & post test design was used for the study. The results obtained through ANCOVA were in favor of Computer games for both boys and girls. However, boys seemed to benefit more f...

Computer-supported games and role plays in teaching water management

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Teaching with Games Using commercial off-the-shelf computer games in formal education

Guest Editorial: Emotion in Games

1 EMOTION IN GAMES COMPUTER games can challenge affective interaction at large for a number of reasons: they arguably define the richest and most dynamic form of human computer interaction; they may elicit complex patterns of emotion at multiple and diverse facets of player immersion; they are content-intensive environments offering rich and variant contextual building blocks for player experie...