Editors:
- Includes international collaborations and current perspectives on serious game research
- Offers practical knowledge on how to conduct serious games research
- Critically examines various methods of serious game analytics data collection
Part of the book series: Advances in Game-Based Learning (AGBL)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Foundations of Serious Games Analytics
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Measurement of Data in Serious Games Analytics
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Visualizations of Data for Serious Games Analytics
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Serious Games Analytics for Medical Learning
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Serious Games Analytics for Learning and Education
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Virtual Environment Lab (V-Lab), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA
Christian Sebastian Loh
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Department of Counseling, Quantitative Methods, and Special Education, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA
Yanyan Sheng
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University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Dirk Ifenthaler
About the editors
Christian Sebastian Loh’s research interests focus on the performance measurement/assessment/ improvement with and the analytics for serious games and virtual environments. He was the 2008/09 President for the Division of Multimedia Production of the AECT (Association for Educational Communications and Technology), and recipient of the 2009 Defense University Research Instrument Program grant awarded by the Army Research Office (ARO). He has designed and developed serious games for research, Information Trails for telemetric performance measurement, Performance Tracing Report Assistant (PeTRA) for performance improvement via gameplay data visualization. He is currently serving on the editorial board of Technology, Knowledge and Learning (TKL), and as associate editor for International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS), and International Journal of Game-Based Learning (IJGBL).
Dr. Yanyan Sheng’s research interests focus on modeling dichotomous responses in educational and psychological measurement using advanced modern statistics, and specifically on developing and applying complex yet efficient Bayesian hierarchical item response models. She developed complex Bayesian multidimensional models with various latent dimensional structures and has written and published MATLAB programs for these models. She is also interested in applying the biased coin up-and-down design to adaptive testing.
Dr. Ifenthaler’s research interests focus on learning analytics, cognitive structures, complex problem solving, learning analytics, game-based and mobile learning, as well as computer-based assessment. He developed computer-based methodologies for the assessment and analysis of graphical and natural language representations (SMD Technology, HIMATT, AKOVIA, TASA) as well as games for teacher education (DIVOSA, SeSIM). Dr. Ifenthaler’s research outcomes spans numerous co-authored books, book chapters, journal articles andinternational conference papers. He was a 2012 Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, the University of Oklahoma, USA and Interim Department Chair and Professor at the University of Mannheim, Germany. He is the 2013/2014 President for the AECT (Association for Educational Communications and Technology) Division Design and Development, 2013/2014 Chair for the AERA Special Interest Group Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning and Program Chair for the international conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age. Dr. Ifenthaler received the 2012 Outstanding Journal Article Award by AECT, 2009 Outstanding Reviewer Award for Educational Technology Research and Development and the 2006 Outstanding Dissertation Award by University of Freiburg, Germany. He is the Editor-In-Chief of Technology, Knowledge and Learning.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Serious Games Analytics
Book Subtitle: Methodologies for Performance Measurement, Assessment, and Improvement
Editors: Christian Sebastian Loh, Yanyan Sheng, Dirk Ifenthaler
Series Title: Advances in Game-Based Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05834-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05833-7Published: 01 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38219-7Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05834-4Published: 13 June 2015
Series ISSN: 2567-8086
Series E-ISSN: 2567-8485
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 477
Number of Illustrations: 85 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour