Serious Games in Software Engineering Processes, a Methodical Planning

Games and Serious Games in Urban Planning: Study Cases

In this article we focus on online games and serious games in urban planning. At the beginning we provide some definitions of games and serious games and discuss the potential of serious games. We overview the urban planning games available online and give some examples of the game stories and concepts. The main goal of the article is to explore the potential of serious games in public particip...

Serious Games Evaluation: Processes, Models, and Concepts

Serious games are developed with the goal of having a certain impact on players which goes beyond mere entertainment. This purposedriven design is immanent to serious games and can be stated as the key characteristic that distinguishes serious games from other digital games. Hence, verifying that a serious game has the intended effect on the players needs to be an essential part in the developm...

Serious Assessments in Serious Games

Integration of Serious Games in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Iranian Children

Nowadays computers are increasingly being incorporated into school curriculums and serious games are occupying the educational games markets. This article addressed the integration of serious games as tools for learning and teaching English in Iranian schools to zero-beginner students. An experiment was concluded using Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to investigate the effectiveness ...

Establishing the Software Engineering Processes

Software project performance and product quality are often widely determined by the design of the software processes and by the degree at which the defined processes are actually established throughout the project or organization. This whitepaper describes the benefits of processes, gives and overview of software engineering life cycle processes, and explains how processes can be established ef...