Serious Sensor Placement—Optimal Sensor Placement as a Serious Game

Serious game evaluation as a meta-game

Purpose – This paper aims to briefly outline the seamless evaluation approach and its application during an evaluation of ORIENT, a serious game aimed at young adults. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, the authors detail a unobtrusive, embedded evaluation approach that occurs within the game context, adding value and entertainment to the player experience whilst accumulating useful d...

A serious parlor game.

Intelligent Agent Modeling as Serious Game

We propose a novel approach to intelligent tutoring gaming simulations designed for both educational and inquiry purposes in complex multi-actor systems such as infrastructures or markets. Rather than letting students perform guided role-play, the idea is to guide students as they construct, learn about and exchange delegate agents to test operations strategies in various simulated scenarios. W...

Serious Use of a Serious Game for Language Learning

The Tactical Language and Culture Training System (TLCTS) helps learners acquire basic communicative skills in foreign languages and cultures. Learners acquire communication skills through a combination of interactive lessons and serious games. Artificial intelligence plays multiple roles in this learning environment: to process the learner’s speech, to interpret and evaluate learner actions, t...

LawVille: a Collaborative Serious Game

SGs are (digital) games used for purposes other than mere entertainment using leaning-by-doing paradigm. Current internet technologies increase the capabilities of Web-Based Serious Games making them collaborative e-learning instruments. This paper presents LawVille, a Web-Based Collaborative Serious Game aimed at teaching citizenship and the Italian Constitution to secondary school students.