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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...

How Serious are serious games? Some lessons from Infra-games

In this paper, the authors explore the possible contribution of serious games for advanced academic and/or professional learning in particular to support the decision-making and 1

Serious Games: The Importance of Play in Network Centric Organizations

The psychology of play recognises that there are benefits of incorporating play and games at work. In this paper we report the results of an investigation into the use of gaming to develop the cooperative human aspects of team behaviour in organisations that want to increase their social network-centric capability. We show how online team gaming sessions can enhance people's awareness and maste...

Integrating serious content into serious games

This paper addresses the integration of training content into serious games. Many possibilities exist for how to approach this process, but there are also many opportunities and consequences afforded by these various approaches. Prior literature in the field gives us some sense about how to approach them, but much of this literature is based on theory in instructional systems or game design sep...