Games and Learning Alliance

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Beyond Serious Games: The Next Generation of Cultural Artifacts

   • Federico Fasce

   Pages 1-4

3. Investigating the Deployment of Serious Games in Secondary Education: A Pilot Study Inspired by Design-Based Research

   • Jeffrey Earp, Chiara Eva Catalano, Michela Mortara

   Pages 5-15

4. To Facilitate or Not? Understanding the Role of the Teacher in Using a Serious Game

   • Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Theodore Lim, James Ritchie, Matthias Kalverkamp, Francesco Bellotti, Claudia Ribeiro

   Pages 16-30

5. Identifying Pedagogical Uses of Serious Games for Learning English as a Second Language

   • Azeneth Patiño, Margarida Romero

   Pages 31-43

6. Intouch: Mobile Game-Based Learning for Non Routine Skills

   • Alfredo Imbellone, Brunella Botte, Carlo Maria Medaglia

   Pages 44-53

7. Multiplayer Serious Games and User Experience: A Comparison Between Paper-Based and Digital Gaming Experience

   • Luca Argenton, Marisa Muzio, Esther J. Shek, Fabrizia Mantovani

   Pages 54-62

8. Designing a Serious Game as a Diagnostic Tool

   • Pongpanote Gongsook, Janneke Peijnenborgh, Erik van der Spek, Jun Hu, Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta et al.

   Pages 63-72

9. Gamification in a Smart City Context. An Analysis and a Proposal for Its Application in Co-design Processes

   • Antonio Opromolla, Andrea Ingrosso, Valentina Volpi, Carlo Maria Medaglia, Mauro Palatucci, Mariarosaria Pazzola

   Pages 73-82

10. A Conceptual Model Towards the Scaffolding of Learning Experience

    • Sylvester Arnab, Pablo Moreno Ger, Theodore Lim, Petros Lameras, Maurice Hendrix, Kristian Kiili et al.

    Pages 83-96

11. The Journey: A Service-Based Adaptive Serious Game on Probability

    • Maira B. Carvalho, Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Francesco Curatelli, Alessandro De Gloria, Giorgia Gazzarata et al.

    Pages 97-106

12. Improved Multimodal Emotion Recognition for Better Game-Based Learning

    • Kiavash Bahreini, Rob Nadolski, Wim Westera

    Pages 107-120

13. Serious Games Opportunities for the Primary Education Curriculum in Quebec

    • Margarida Romero, Sylvie Barma

    Pages 121-131

14. Free Your Brain a Working Memory Training Game

    • Gonçalo Pereira, Manuel Ninaus, Rui Prada, Guilherme Wood, Christa Neuper, Ana Paiva

    Pages 132-141

15. Game Design and Development for Learning Physics Using the Flow Framework

    • Danu Pranantha, Erik van der Spek, Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Alessandro DeGloria, Matthias Rauterberg

    Pages 142-151

16. Mind Book – A Social Network Trainer for Children with Depression

    • Andreas Schrammel, Helmut Hlavacs, Manuel Sprung, Isabelle Müller, M. Mersits, C. Eicher et al.

    Pages 152-162

17. Using Avatars for Course Management and Immersion

    • Martin Sillaots

    Pages 163-173

18. Serious Game Mechanics, Workshop on the Ludo-Pedagogical Mechanism

    • T. Lim, S. Louchart, N. Suttie, J. Baalsrud Hauge, J. Earp, M. Ott et al.

    Pages 174-183

19. Back Matter

    Pages 185-185

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2014, held in Bucharest, Romania, in July 2014. The 15 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers presented cover a variety of aspects and knowledge fields. They are grouped into four sessions: pedagogy, technology, design, and applications.

• Adaptive serious games
• Character
• Game design
• Human-computer interaction
• Social network
• Affective computing
• Avatar
• Children
• Diagnostic tool
• Experimental pilot
• Game elements
• Game-based learning
• Multimodal emotion recognition
• Ontology
• Real-time emotion recognition
• Self-presentation
• Serious games
• Service oriented architecture
• Virtual reality
• Webcam

• Electronic Engineering, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

  Alessandro De Gloria

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