Games for Training, Education, Health and Sports
4th International Conference on Serious Games, GameDays 2014, Darmstadt, Germany, April 1-5, 2014. Proceedings
Editors: Göbel, Stefan, Wiemeyer, Josef (Eds.)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Serious Games for Training, Education, Health and Sports, Game Days 2014, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in April 2014. The 13 full papers presented together with 3 short papers, 2 keynotes, and 3 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The topics of the papers are settled in the fields of (game-based) training, teaching and learning, authoring tools, mobile gaming, health and rehabilitation, and citizen science. The papers address a broad scope of issues, including mechanisms and effects of (Serious) Games, adaptation and personalisation, local, mobile, and internet learning and education applications, game, reuse and evaluation, game settings, types of learners, problem solving etc.
- Table of contents (21 chapters)
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How Computer Games Can Improve Your Health and Fitness
Pages 1-7
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Game-Based IT Solutions for Active and Healthy Aging
Pages 8-11
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Cat King’s Metamorphosis
Pages 12-22
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Narrative Serious Game Mechanics (NSGM) – Insights into the Narrative-Pedagogical Mechanism
Pages 23-34
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Video Game Personalization via Social Media Participation
Pages 35-46
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Games for Training, Education, Health and Sports
- Book Subtitle
- 4th International Conference on Serious Games, GameDays 2014, Darmstadt, Germany, April 1-5, 2014. Proceedings
- Editors
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- Stefan Göbel
- Josef Wiemeyer
- Series Title
- Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
- Series Volume
- 8395
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-05972-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-05972-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-05971-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 200
- Number of Illustrations
- 70 b/w illustrations
- Topics