FoodCalorie: A Mobile Game to Learn Daily Calorie Intake Standard

Playing to learn game design skills in a game context

This interactive session presents early research findings resulting from a game simulation currently called Gamestar Mechanic through which 70 middle and high school-age players learn to design video games. Gamestar Mechanic is an RPG (Role-Playing Game) style online game through which players “take on” the behaviors characteristic of professional game designers (e.g., designing games, accounti...

Designing a mobile video game to help young deaf children learn Auslan

Hearing-impaired children of hearing parents face challenges in learning sign languages, due in part to a lack of language immersion. These difficulties are compounded by the lack of learning resources available to these children. Technological resources, in particular, have the potential to aid Deaf children learning sign languages. The increasing ubiquity of mobile devices such as smart phone...

Calorie Intake and Industrial Output.

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Relive: a serious game to learn how to save lives.

A recent review has provided evidence in support of new nd alternative methods for CPR training.1 Among these, are he “serious games”, which are applications developed using omputer game technologies more often associated with enterainment, but characterized by a serious purpose. Indeed, during he last decade, many serious games have been developed and sed successfully in the field of health, i...

A Location-Based Serious Game to Learn About the Culture