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HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Emergent Design: Serendipity in Digital Educational Games
Using computer games for educational purposes is a fascinating idea that is getting increasingly popular amongst educators, researchers, and developers. From a technical as well as...
Michael D. Kickmeier-Rust, Dietrich Albert
FDG
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Emphasizing soft skills and team development in an educational digital game design course
Engineering education has evolved from providing students solely with technical skills to providing them with courses that provide students with the non-technical “soft skillsâ€...
Quincy Brown, Frank J. Lee, Suzanne Alejandre
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Immersive Digital Games: The Interfaces for Next-Generation E-Learning?
The intrinsic motivation to play, and therefore to learn, that might be provided by digital educational games teases researchers and developers. However, existing educational games...
Michael D. Kickmeier-Rust, Neil Peirce, Owen Conla...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Engagement: gaming throughout the curriculum
This paper considers how gaming has been infused into the computing curriculum of institutions in the United States. To increase motivation of students and improve retention, many...
Briana B. Morrison, Jon A. Preston
FPLAY
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Intelligent adaptation of digital game-based learning
Games for learning cannot take the same design approach as games when targeting audiences. While players of entertainment games have the luxury of choosing games that suit them, s...
Brian Magerko, Carrie Heeter, Joe Fitzgerald, Ben ...