Gamification, serious games and action video games in optometry practice

Gamification and serious games for personalized health.

Computer games are no longer just a trivial activity played by children in arcades. Social networking and casual gaming have broadened the market for, and acceptance of, games. This has coincided with a realization of their power to engage and motivate players. Good computer games are excellent examples of modern educational theory [1]. The military, health providers, governments, and educators...

Gamification, Serious Games, Ludic Simulation, and other Contentious Categories

This paper provides a conceptual framework for gamification, ludic simulations, and serious games. Central to this framework is the spectrum of design that differentiates work and play. Work and play help define software in purpose as games, productivity software, and entertainment. These categories are informed through cognitive feature analysis of narrative and game play structure. Both can b...

Mixed Reality Serious Games and Gamification for smart education

The appeal of Mixed Reality (MR) digital games arouses interest among researchers and education specialists who since their recent proliferation, they have been trying to introduce their motivating potential in learning contexts. Our main research question in this work focuses on whether MR digital games can, via novel Presence (feeling of ‘being and doing there’ in a virtual or augmented world...

Serious Assessments in Serious Games

Serious Games

This special issue highlights some of the best of emerging research in using video games for serious purposes. Although “serious games” is a new term, such games have been around for many years in the form of training simulators for vehicle control, such as flight simulators, and other types of simulation technologies. Through game constructs, we can simulate realistic situations to provide val...