• Title/Summary/Keyword: Serious games for education

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Analysis of Serious Game Elements of the Contents for Smart Device Based First-Aid Education (스마트 기기 기반 응급 처치 교육 콘텐츠의 기능성 게임 요소 분석 연구)

  • Suh, Dong-hee
    • Cartoon and Animation Studies
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    • s.47
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    • pp.273-294
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    • 2017
  • Korea has suffered numerous casualties due to a lot of accidents caused by safety insufficiency in recent years. Therefore, safety education is more important than ever before, and 'how to educate with what contents' is an important subject. Especially, experience education is effective rather than theoretical education because of the nature of safety education. However, it is not easy to design and develop these safety education programs. There is not much opportunity to access first-aid training, which is a part of safety education, unless it is compulsory to learn through public institutions. As a result, program utilization on safety education in Korea is still insufficient to what it should be. With that taken into account, this study proposed an effective serious game with fun and immersion for medical first-aid education. To do this, we analyzed five medical games through 20 cases of first-aid applications and elicited five factors that enhance the usability of serious games. With an analysis of five medical games, we selected one game to borrow the game rules, and applied the elicited five elements in the forms of level-up structure, iterative learning, compensation outcomes, competition system, and information transfer. The proposed medical education functional games should have 1) a character that plays a role of a patient, 2) a narrative flow that shows the situation, 3) the user should judge the situation and induce first aid. 4) compensation, levels, and simple repetition should be designed, and 5) information should be shared with the others in the given community. The results of this study is believed to contribute to enhance the medical emergency education in Korea.

A Study on Learning Effect of Serious Game for Memory Improvement (기억력 향상 기능성 게임의 학습 효과에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Hwa-Min;Hong, Min
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 2011
  • Serious games are designed for special purposes of education, training, treatment as well as game-like fun and entertainment. Recently, domestic and foreign market of serious game are growing rapidly. By dissemination of smartphone, the global market for serious game will be expanded for various purposes and users. In this paper, we design and implement serious game 'QUICK REMEMBER 20' for memory improvement using smartphone. We analyze game users based on socio-demographic characteristics and evaluate the learning effectiveness of this game with statistic method.

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A Serious Game Development for Historical Education Using OGRE Engine (OGRE 엔진을 이용한 역사 교육용 기능성 게임 개발)

  • Lee, Myoun-Jae;Kim, Kyoung-Nam
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.385-392
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    • 2010
  • At present, educational serious games which are designed for educational purpose including funny element have been developed in korea. This paper proposes a history educational game and describes how to make history educational game using OGRE engine. The OGRE engine is public, and widely used in many universities. Methods of the proposed game's development include development environment, desired plan, game scenario, game interface, method to cooperate with physics engine and so on. The proposed game is played in performing a mission that is based on historical event of our country in itself. And discrimination of the proposed game is to set a quest with actual historical events, in order to learn history beyond the simple fun in the existing history educational games. This paper should be helpful to discrimination of history educational serious game and developers to create history educational serious game with OGRE engine.

Mathematics education game based on augmented reality (증강현실을 기반으로 한 수학교육 게임)

  • Lee, Hye-Sun;Lee, Jong-Weon
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02a
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    • pp.817-822
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    • 2008
  • The computer game industry has been developed gradually because of development of graphics and communication industry, Games have an important role to peoples in various ages in their leisure life. Game has been changed into various forms with its development. With this movement, it is not only for simple amusement, but starts trying to use them for educational object. It is called Serious Game that intends to particular object and effect. Serious game has the important meaning to get some new useful things through its enjoyment which is the essence of games. Many people in various field have tried many categories of contents. Especially, education stands out among the other fields. Fields related with education have been studied extensively. This paper would suggest mathematics education game based on Augmented Reality. It is a board game for infants and young students. Augmented Reality is used to extend user's experience and multiplicity of the game. We also offer users a tool that helps them to create their own board for their active game participation.

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A Study on Pedagogy Researches in Serious Game Design (기능성 게임 설계에서의 교육학적 연구에 대한 고찰)

  • Ha, Soo-Cheol
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.1259-1265
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    • 2017
  • While there is consensus on the educational potential of serious games, there is still a lack of methodology and tools to support analysis and evaluation as well as design. This paper intends to explore the new methodology or design direction by analyzing pedagogy-related research required for serious games. To do this, we analyzed 4DF(Four Dimensional Framework), GOM(Game Object Model), LM(Learning Mechanics)-GM(Game Mechanics) and a framework for teacher. One of the biggest issues faced by educational games is the inadequate integration of education and game principles. This is due to a variety of factors, including the fact that game designers and educational professionals do not share a common vocabulary or work domain perspective.

Tablet PC based Convergence Educational Serious Game for Children (태블릿 PC 기반의 융합형 아동 교육용 기능성 게임)

  • Ko, Jeong-Won;Lee, Ji-Won;Kim, Mi-Hye;Jung, Hye-Kyung;Park, Sung-Jun
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.59-68
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    • 2014
  • As the prevalence of mobile platforms, expanding digital content production and also increasing interest about the serious game. However, existing educational serious games are short of application of educational function and lower effectiveness that not linked with off-line education. In this paper, we developed an educational serious game 'Rice-Mimi Adventure' for children based Tablet PC. The Games are designed five steps by four elements that storytelling, playing, music and cooking. Specially, players interaction between characters should be increase their own concentration and interest. For the effectiveness verification that linked education of on/off-line, experiment to 126 students of 3,4th grade in Choenan. A result shows positive data that on/off-line linked education using Tablet PC and effectiveness of game contents applied design factors. For this work, we should find effective class and teaching method using digital contents in off-line education for children.

Effect of Serious Games on Disability Player Performance by Ability Levels (장애 아동 플레이어 능력의 차이에 따른 기능성 게임 효과의 차이)

  • Kwon, Jungmin
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.149-156
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    • 2015
  • In this research, the effect of serious game on the task performance of adolescents with intellectual disabilities was investigated. A total of 31 students participated in a pre-post-with-control-group-design study. Results indicate that among the high-, moderate-, and low- ability students, the moderate-ability students gained the most from the game, in both speed and accuracy. From the results we can understand that game-based training has the most effect on the moderate level students. Also, the findings of this study show that serious games can be effective training tools for this population.

A Development of Motion Detection Based Serious Game "ChoDeungGangHo" for Physical Training

  • Lee, Bum-Ro
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2015
  • In this paper we propose a method to analyze user's motion as a game command, and implement a sports serious game applied the motion analysis method as a command interpreter. Recently, various contents platforms appear in industrial market, the computer game contents plays an important role in these emerging platforms as a killer contents. The computer game has enough values as an independent major cultural product, moreover it has the potential to be applied in various other fields such as education, healthcare, training, and so on. It could motivate users to do something continuously, and it could also support an immersive environment in a certain special game contents such as VR game. The Serious game 'ChoDeungGangHo', implemented in this paper, is the sensory healthcare serious game based on 3D run game and fitness game. It is designed for user to train the various exercise element by just playing the game, and it also supports the user management system and the linkage of social media. We proposes the sensory serious game 'ChoDeungGangHo' as a model of commercial serious game.

A Study on Game Content Development Methodology for Mathematics Learning to Raise Mathematical Intuition: for Elementary Geometry Learning (수학적 직관을 키우는 게임 콘텐츠 개발 방법 연구 : 초등 기하 영역을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Yoseob;Woo, Tack;Joo, Heeyoung
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.95-110
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    • 2013
  • Current up-to-date courses of study put emphasis on raising creative students. However, the cramming methods of teaching mathematics in the school seems far from the creativity and the number of students who feels mathematics difficult is increasing. To overcome this situation, the government proposed 'the mathematics education using storytelling', which leads to lots of developments of mathematics using serious game in many areas. However most of the current serious games couldn't do away with the deductive framework of mathematics, which makes it impossible to achieve the purpose of raising creative students. This is because existing mathematics serious games have not deeply contemplated many aspects such as the purpose and theories of teaching and teaching mathematics. Therefore, in order to overcome the limitations of cramming methods in existing mathematics educations, this research proposes the new method of developing serious game contents for elementary geometry that is useful to improve mathematical intuition, based on RME, the theory of teaching/learning mathematics.

Prospects of Characteristics Factors on Serious Game through Application Case Study Analysis (응용분야 사례 분석을 통한 기능성 게임의 특성요인 전망)

  • Choi, Woo-Seok
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.8
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    • pp.409-416
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    • 2017
  • The game market has not only grown in size of the 10 trillion won but also the form and function of game use. Serious game combines the educational purpose and the fun of the game and develops it so that contents such as national defense. In this study, we analyze the cases of five application areas for the activation of serious games, and develop factors that the serious game should have, we want to see what the characteristics are and how important it is. The results of analysis show that it was analyzed that most serious games of application field were developed as 'experiential games' such as education, learning, experience, and simulation. This means that it is very effective to develop a serious game in consideration of the characteristics that a potential user should prefer a sensible game as well as a clear goal of a serious game in game development.