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G4H 2008: Serious Games For Effective Healthcare Team Coordination from ch
2008-04-24 11:18:00
Via: Games for Health 2008 - Early Content Preview and Duke University (Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center) - 3DiTeam s: Gaming Environment for Training Healthcare Team Coordination Skills Games for Health Session - 3DiTeams: Team Training for HealthcareEffective team coordination is critical for the safe delivery of care and a three-dimensional Serious Game environment provides an engaging and cost effective alternative to other interactive training solutions.The session details the development, research evaluation, and rollout for 3DiTeams Healthcare Team Coordination Scenario Environment. This training environment was developed in conjunction with Duke's Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center, Durham, NC and Virtual Heroes Inc, also in Durham.The project was funded by TATRC (Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center) and AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality). The content is based on AHRQ and the Department of Defense's evidence-based healthcare...

Serious Games Taking Higher Education Outside Of The Classroom from chemist
2008-04-24 11:12:00
Via: Flux and OpenCulture - Universities Go Mobile As Serious Games continue to emerge as a useful model for learning at all levels, including higher education, they are showing their versatility in a variety of settings.What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone? Connected is one possible vision. Envisioning the 21st-Century CampusAs a university, ACU (Abilene Christian University) has invested much energy considering emerging trends in education. They've done this because their ongoing goal to help prepare students to be critical thinkers, knowledgeable professionals, and responsible citizens calls for continual reevaluation of almost everything that happens in and out of the classroom - even a reevaluation of what constitutes the classroom itself. In the spring of 2007, a group of educators, technologists, and administrators at ACU crystallized these ongoing discussions, producing a case for a new emphasis on mobile learn...
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Establishing The General Approach For Educational Games from chemistry note
2008-04-24 11:07:00
Via: Elektra Project - Enhanced Learning Experience and Knowledge TransferELEKTRA is a specific targeted research funded by the European Commission that aims at revolutionizing technology-enhanced learning, by developing a state-of-the-art adventure game to make learning as exciting as leading-edge computer games.The Elektra project is coordinated at the Laboratory for Mixed Realities in Cologne, Germany, but includes various contributing teams, representing nine interdisciplinary partners from six European countries merging their expertise in cognitive and educational science, computer science, and neurocience with Serious Games . They decided that an adventure game would be optimal for an integrated environment of education, play and gaming. The player should barely notice that he or she is actually learning. ELEKTRA's Interdisciplinary WorkAn important aim of the Elektra project is to establish a general approach for educational games that is then suitable for all subjects (Frenc...
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Serious Games Predict Crowd Behavior In Dense Urban Settings from chemistry
2008-04-24 11:04:00
Via: Discover Magazine - The Sim That Saves People from Each Otherand Arizona State University - Geographer designs computer model to predict crowd behaviorScientists who want to see how a crowd behaves in an emergency can now shout “Fire!” on a city street and watch everyone panic and run thanks to a newly developed computer simulation. The 3-D model starts with patterns of human behavior and movement and uses them to simulate the behavior of a crowd in mob situations and pedestrian habits under certain building configurations, resulting in a virtual crowd video."Crowd s are vital to the lifeblood of our cities,” said the model’s creator, Paul Torrens of Arizona State University. But, he adds, it is impractical “to establish live experiments with hundreds or thousands of people along busy streetscapes, to reproduce mob behavior during riots for the purposes of academic experimentation, or, to expect to replicate the life and death behavior under emergency situations in a f...
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Blending Gaming With Historical Regional Themes from chemistry notes
2008-04-24 11:02:00
There are almost 200 million consumers in the Middle Eastern region today, and more than 33 million of them are online, according to Internet World Stats. As one of the first lessons in Entrepreneurship is to find an underserved market and serve it, that's just what BreakAway Games and Quirkat have done! BreakAway and Quirkat Release Tariq’s Treasure, First Tri-lingual Mobile Title in the Middle EastBreakAway, a leading developer of entertainment games and game-based technology products and Quirkat, a leading Middle East interactive entertainment services company, announced on Monday the release of Tariq’s Treasure, a fun-filled, puzzle/strategy title on mobile handsets. Tariq’s Treasure is the first mobile title released in the Middle East to offer gamers the choice to play in either Arabic, French or English language versions.Tariq’s Treasure is a follow up product to Arabian Lords, the world’s first bilingual PC strategy game released last year, exclusively in the Midd...
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Serious Games Building a Compelling Brain Fitness Experience
2008-04-24 10:57:00
Via: Fit Brain s - Play A Fit Brains Game!Following my prior post Fit Brains: Serious Games Bring Brain Fitness to Mainstream, Fit Brains has announced the launch of of a new brain fitness platform.Fit Brains offers a suite of Brain Fitness Tools that work on all five key brain areas. In addition, you will find brain metric tools to help support your progress through feedback, recommendations and charts. This gives you the flexibility to follow recommendations or choose your own preferences. According to Michael Cole - Founder and CEO of Vivity Labs, Inc., who has become a leading expert in the brain fitness market in the last five years, when he first started building the brain fitness business - Fit Brains mission is to build a compelling brain fitness experience that motivates individuals to incorporate brain work-outs into their daily lives. Fit Brains Beta LaunchThe collection of brain fitness games, which constitutes the beta offer, provide a varied workout across the major cog...
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iPhone SDK: Potential For Serious Games Large Scale Distribution from chemi
2008-04-24 09:39:00
SEGA's First iPhone SDK Title - Super Monkey Ball . "This is not a cellphone game. This is a full console game."iPhone As A Potentially Huge Distribution MarketApple has announced that there have already been 100,000 downloads of the iPhone software developer kit (SDK) in the four days since release. The SDK’s arrival has sparked huge interest globally from third-party developers, including Team 17 and Microsoft's Silverlight team, with many viewing the iPhone (and the iPod touch) as a potentially huge distribution market for their wares. “Developer reaction to the iPhone SDK has been incredible with more than 100,000 downloads in the first four days,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Also, over one million people have watched the launch video on Apple.com, further demonstrating the incredible interest developers have in creating applications for the iPhone.” What the SDK arrival means for the average iPhone user is t...
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Serious Games Dealing With Real-World Ethics & Finance from chemistry n
2008-04-24 09:36:00
Via: Deloitte & Touche USA LLP - Virtual Team Challenge for High Schools (VTCHS)Helps Student Learn About Careers in Accounting and ConsultingDELOITTE & TOUCHE USA HAS partnered with BrandGames to bring business education up to speed, with The Virtual Team Challenge for High Schools (VTCHS) Event--an online simulator that lets teens learn business best practices and deal with real-world ethical and financial situations. On average, students will spend 45 - 90 minutes in the "virtual world". Teachers may allocate time to play during class hours or assign the challenge for homework. More than 5,500 students from about 100 high schools nationwide are participating in the program, which runs through March 24. Students team up in groups of four to create a mock events planning company, with the goal of hosting a festival to raise money for the United Way. The team that raises the most virtual cash gets to make a real-life donation to the charity, as well as snag a grant for their...
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Plato & Serious Games Changing The Definition Of Homework from chemistr
2008-04-24 09:23:00
Via: PSP World - Homework Goes Handheld with PLATO Achieve Now PLATO Learning launches first-ever educational content for PSP (PlayStationPortable) handheld entertainment system.Homework Meets Gaming with PLATO Achieve Now on PSPFor kids in the digital age, it's a familiar refrain, "no video games until you finish your homework." But what happens when homework is a video game? PLATO Learning, Inc., a leading provider of K-adult computer-based and e-learning solutions, is forever changing the definition of "homework." The company announced last week it is first to market in North America with educational gaming software for Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s PSP(R) (PlayStation(R)Portable)--selling its popular PLATO Achieve Now program on one of the hottest-selling handheld entertainment systems beginning this April.PLATO Achieve Now delivers research-based educational content as a series of fun, interactive games, which are proven to help elementary and middle school students meet...
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Serious Games Taking Cyber University One Step Further from chemistry notes
2008-04-24 09:21:00
Via: FLUX - Cyber University On A Mobile Phone?In April last year, Japan’s first so-called Cyber University opened its virtual doors.The university is private and headquartered in Fukuoka on the southern island of Kyuushu. It is run by a nonlisted stock company called Japan Cyber Education Institute which is mainly controlled by Japanese Internet telecom giant SoftBank.As of now, approximately 1,900 students are enrolled who can graduate with a Bachelor degree in IT and business or world heritage. All correspondence-type courses can be accessed via the Internet.While this is a cool idea especially for homemakers, ambitious people with stressing day jobs and retirees, it’s not really new. There are many universities offering academic material online and Japan’s Cyber University is not even the first fully online academic institution in the world.Courses Via The Mobile Phone.In November last year however, the Cyber University took its concept one step further by expanding it to ...
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MMOGs: Serious Games Creating A Model For Collabo rative Learning Worldwide
2008-04-24 09:18:00
Richard Carey’s has just posted a great article - Extreme Growth, which highlights some of the hard numbers behind the subscription growth of current MMOGs from the MMOG Chart updated website.Leveraging on his posting, I would like to further explore the possibilities of Massively Multiplayer Online Game space for the proliferation of advanced learning communities.As Joel Foreman, an associate professor of English at George Mason University, states “this is not a theoretical model for the distant future of education: millions of people are engaging voluntarily at this advanced level right now in MMOG virtual. They are collectively learning their way into an unpredictable cyberspace future. At the same time they are creating a model of a high performance collaborative learning system that could eventually replace the bricks and mortar of the nineteenth century model that Americans currently pay $500 plus billion per year to maintain".Anecdotal evidence comes from US space agency ...
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Serious Games Celebrating Languages & Cultures in 3D from chemistry n
2008-04-24 09:15:00
SLanguages 2008 is a 24 hour multilingual conference to celebrate and investigate the use of 3D virtual worlds for language education. The conference will be held within Second Life allowing the participants to exchange ideas and share experiences simultaneously around the world. The online conference is free to attend and includes talks, workshops, discussions and posters on language education using virtual worlds such as Second Life. The events will cover methodologies, teaching tools and experiences.Throughout 2007 Second Life has become an important tool for language learning with many universities using the 3D world for language tuition, including Michigan State University and the University of Southampton . “Interest in using Second Life for education has increased exponentially over the last year” says Second Life educational consultant Gavin Dudeney, author of The Internet and the Language Classroom, Longman 2007.Images from the SLanguages 2007 conferenceThe event is an ...
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Serious Games Solving "Tower of Babel" For Intelligence Agencies from chemi
2008-04-24 09:12:00
The Future of Collaboration: Virtual Worlds Integrated With Unified CommunicationsIBM and Forterra Systems are working to solve an age-old problem that challenges U.S. security and costs taxpayers millions. Forterra plans to develop a futuristic unified communications solution code-named "Babel Bridge" that could allow US intelligence agencies to use a common graphical collaboration system to instantly communicate within a virtual world. To meet this challenge, IBM and Forterra have entered into a teaming agreement under which Forterra will integrate its On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE™) 3D platform with the IBM Lotus® Sametime® software and the IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC2™) platform. The new system would give online collaborators instant insight through the display and discussion of multiple data forms in parallel including documents, graphic displays, and human expertise via anytime, anywhere connectivity through the Internet or a mobile ...
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Establishing A Serious Process For Game Distribution Deals from chemistry n
2008-04-24 09:10:00
Via: Game du Jour and Insolita StudiosGame du Jour is the first “One Deal a Day” website for indie and casual PC games. Every day of the week, GameDuJour.com sells one popular downloadable game at a steep discount. But the clock is ticking and each deal expires at the end of the day. Visitors to GameDuJour.com can download today’s game, try it and buy it at a big discount until midnight Central Time. Then it’s a whole new game — the clock is reset and another game is available at a bargain price.To foster relationships between gamers and spur communication, Game du Jour offers a community area in which anyone can join in the fun of discussing the current game and sharing tips and tricks.Game du Jour, a Silicon Valley start-up founded in 2006, is a marketing and distribution partner to game developers, giving those companies the opportunity for a rush of sales and heightened brand exposure during their products’ 24-hour lifecycle at GameDuJour.com.Philippe Piernot, Ph.D i...
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A Serious Game To Get A Sense Of The Brain Work That Is Going On from chem
2008-04-24 09:07:00
Via: Slate - An Ingenious Video Game That Looks Like It Was Designed By A Third-GraderCrayon Physics Deluxe , from Kloonigames, is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.Crayon Physics Deluxe lets you draw objects on the screen by clicking and dragging your mouse, or by drawing with the stylus of a tablet PC, as in the below video. The objects you scrawl become part of the game world. The goal is to create objects that propel a crudely drawn ball toward a crudely drawn star. There is no single correct way to scoot that ball around; the fun is in exploring the options. Within seconds of hitting start, you're furiously scribbling blocks and ramps and wedges and seesaws, whatever it takes to reach the goal. Some players may get sidetracked creating hilariously inefficient Rube Goldberg devices. Others wi...
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Serious Games Taking The Pulse Of Augmented Reality from chemistry notes
2008-04-24 09:05:00
Via: Games Alfresco - Top 10 Augmented Reality Demos That Will Revolutionize Serious GamesOri Inbar is the founder of Pookatak Games - a video game company; formerly senior vice president at SAP, and eternally passionate about interactive entertainment, he also shares my passion for Augmented Reality Games.In his Blog, Games Alfresco, he introduces his countdown of the top 10 best AR demos poised to revolutionize video games - the pursuit of the ultimate augmented reality game. You can find them all at http://www.gamesalfresco.com/2008/03/top- 10-augmented-reality-demos-that.html.Ther e is one company in particular I would like to further explore, which is probably the most commercially successful company that specializes in augmented reality -- Total Immersion.Since 2003, Total Immersion has been funded by two leading global venture capital firms: Partech International and I Source Gestion. A recent round of financing, mid 2006, brought in a new investing partner, Elaia Partners, spe...
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Serious Games School Project to be Extended Across Scotland from chemistry
2008-04-24 09:02:00
Via: Learning & Teaching Scotland A GROUNDBREAKING study looking at the impact of a brain training computer game on learning is to be extended across Scotland.Learning and Teaching Scotland, the body responsible for the development of the curriculum and for exploring the use of ICT in education, is to widen its research project looking at the effect of Nintendo's More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima on pupils' maths ability.More than 900 pupils and 32 schools across the country will be involved in the project, which will begin in April 2008.A small-scale study carried out with P5-P6 pupils in Dundee's St Columba's Primary School by LTS last year found a daily dose of the computer game helped improve pupils' attainment in maths and their concentration and behaviour levels. The pupils were given a maths test at the beginning and then they used More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima on the Nintendo DS for 20 minutes at the start of each day for 10 weeks. It featured challenge...
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Edutopia Poll: Are Serious Games Effective Teaching Tools? from chemistry n
2008-04-24 09:01:00
Via: Edutopia by Sara BernardTo the excitement of many youngsters, computer and video games have entered the educational playing field. Research increasingly supports the cognitive benefits of such games -- not to mention the fact that most kids today are already playing them and loving them -- and now educators and game designers are finding new and exciting ways to embed curricular content into complex yet fascinating play environments.On the other hand, critics charge that the games' educational benefits have not been clearly established. Furthermore, competitiveness and the use of hierarchical scoring systems can compromise engagement for some students, and video gaming at school reinforces the digitized and sedentary lifestyle many young people already experience at home. Would you, or do you, use digital games in the classroom?Edutopia is interested in your opinion @ http://www.edutopia.org/are-computer-and- video-games-effective-teaching-toolsAre computer and video games effe...
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Serious Gaming With COTS: What Children Learn! from chemistry notes
2008-04-24 08:58:00
Via: Learn ing and Teaching Scotland (LTS) - Games-Based LearningOne of the main problems associated with the perception of games as learning tools is that observers generally do not look past the surface content of the game, the graphics, the animations and the sounds.As a result people fail to see or become aware of the rich learning environments and experiences that game play can offer.In order to try and identify what learning takes place when children play games Marc Prensky developed his What kids learn that's positive from playing video games. Consolarium, the LTS's Scottish Centre for Games and Learning, interprets his model so that relevance to teaching and learning can be made more explicit and accessible to teachers.One of the ways the Consolarium is using games in teaching and learning is to ‘retro-fit’ commercial off the shelf (COTS) games to help create motivating contexts that will engage learners. Be it using a narrative driven interactive story such as Hotel Du...
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Apply Serious Games Is Now Part Of 3D Web Convention from chemistry notes
2008-04-24 08:54:00
Via: 3D Web Convention Official Site - 4+ Events 2 Days 1 Place Leading The 3D Web DebateFollowing my prior post Apply Group: Serious Games Events Being Assembled For 2008, the 3D Web Convention Schedule is now available, and brings together 4 conferences all addressing the next-gen Web, to be held in in London 9-10th July.A packed 2-day convention incorporating Serious Games, Virtual Worlds, brands, social networking + extra legal clinic sessions - all addressed from effective development through to monetization.Convention Schedule9th July3D Web Academic & Research Summit Monetize Web 2.0 & Social Networks Conference Expo & Live Demos 10th JulyApply Serious Games Conference Apply Virtual Worlds & MMOs Conference Expo & Live Demos Serious Games Legal Clinic Sessions 3D Web Academic & Research Summit shows the opportunities that are near-term whilst exploring ways to address the acknowledged skills deficit for the ever-increasing demands from games and related...
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free download game Magic Shop
2008-04-22 09:45:00
PC Game | Puzzle | 16 MbLong ago, an elf created and sold artifacts in a cozy little shop. Although new to magic, you have decided to re-open the shop and return it to its former glory! Customers will enter your store and order artifacts. You must create the items by clicking on groups of matching elements to keep your customers happy. Complete bonus rounds and the most powerful wizards will come to your shop to help you. As addictive as it is beautiful, Magic Shop will charm you from the moment you begin!Download
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2008-04-22 09:41:00
West Germany, 1988. To avoid certain collapse, the Soviet army boldly advances into Europe. NATO responds only to be met on a second front -- a diversionary attack on the American homeland. You are a field commander, leading the era's most powerful military machines in the campaign to retake America's cities and suburbs.World in Conflict is under development by the leading creative and technical minds at Massive Entertainment, creators of the innovative and award-winning Ground Control series.Features* Superpowered Warfare Unleash the arsenals of the great military superpowers in the gripping single-player story created by best-selling author and Cold Warauthority, Larry Bond.* MassTech Engine The latest version of Massive's proprietary engine allows for a full 360 range of camera control, allowing you to get right down into the midst of battle.* Demolish Everything Destroy every object in the game - crush cars, destroy buildings, burn forests!* Drop-in Multiplayer Join on-going ...
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2008-04-22 09:37:00
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2008-04-21 17:11:00
The reality TV show of neighborly nastiness and community commotion moves on to the next round. The neighbor from hell wants to enjoy an undeserved holiday ? reason enough for Woody and the camera team to sneak along onto the cruise liner to make the nasty neighbour's holiday a living hell. This time, the neighbor's mum has joined him, and she is taking good care of her baby. Get the neighbor from hell into his mum's and fellow travellers' bad books, play tricks on him and give free reign to your vengeance.Download
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2008-04-21 17:11:00
Cindy?s Sundaes is a new game by ViquaGame s, the makers of Thomas and the Magical Words. Cindys Sundaes puts you in charge of a sundae shop, and plays like a puzzle game instead of a diner game. Make your own sundaes and watch them appear on the screen, solve the puzzles, and most of all have fun!Download
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2008-04-21 17:10:00
Jane, an owner of a small hotel, suddenly finds her halls overcrowded by the customers. Don't miss this great opportunity to enhance the business, gaining mayor's favour and turning the small two-star inn into the great world-wide known hotel. Aside from the rooms, the customers demand various services and extra luxuries - a comfortable chair, a cup of coffee, TV-set, laundry, warm food and other things from the good side of life. Not all of them are patient, so do your best not to disappoint them - each disappointed customer will cost you a huge part of day earning.Download
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2008-04-21 17:10:00
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2008-04-21 17:08:00
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2008-04-21 17:08:00
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2008-04-21 17:07:00
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