Apresentação feita na 1ª CIAAF (Conferencia Ibero-Americana de Aprendizagem Futura) que se realizou nos dias 1 e 2 de Outubro de Universidade Portucalense.

1. Serious games
reality or utopia?
Universidade Portucalense - Porto
October2015
Fernando Cassola

2. • We are researching
• Some research projects
• Some history
• Main types of serious
games
• Conclusions

3. we are researching ...

4. Some research projects…
• Online-Gym project
• Online-Gym is an exploratory
project prototyping an online 3D
platform based on virtual worlds
that allows users to interact with
the system through the use of a
motion capture device such as
Microsoft Kinect

5. Some research projects…
• InMerse project
• The goal of the InMERSE is to help
understand the potential of using natural
interaction, augmented reality and virtual
reality techniques and devices in
immersive entertainment and
professional scenarios.

6. Some research projects…
• Massive project
• Multimodal Acknowledgeable
multiSenSory Immersive Virtual
Environment
• DEMO: Virtual BTT
• immersive 3D
• Audio spacialized
• Impact vest
• Vibration on the bike
• Forest scent
• Wind speed-dependent

7. Some research projects…
• ARTourMap
• Augmented reality map’s

8. Some research projects…
• F-16 Engine Maintenance
Simulador
• Development of a
mechanical maintenance
training simulator in
OpenSimulator for F-16
aircraft engines

9. Some history

10. Old games
• Dice, 3000 AC
• Senet, 3000 AC
• Liubo, 1500 AC
• Mancala, 1400 AC

11. Old Games (conclusions)
• Games have always had a serious purpose
• Fortune Telling
• Religious Divination for Weather, Politics, Disease
• Accounting for crops, animals, and trade
• Battle Planning
• Gambling
• Game mechanisms began to emerge 5000 years ago
• Random number generator, playing board, rules, strategies
• “Serious” is from the perspective of the society
• Fortune Telling and Divination in 3000BC are equivalent to the use of mathematics and
science in 2000AD to understand a complex universe and to make intelligent decisions
Smith, Roger (2009)

12. Serious games [1938]
• Huizinga (1938), the work Homo Ludens, recognize
the game as something innate to man and even
animals, considering it an absolutely primary
category of life, just prior to culture, and this
evolved into the game.
source: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens

13. Serious games [1970]
• “We are concerned with serious games in the
sense that these games have an explicit and
carefully thought-out educational purpose and
are not intended to be played primarily for
amusement.”
Abt, C. (1970). Serious Games. New York: The Viking Press.

14. Serious games [2005]
• Game: “a physical or mental contest, played according to specific rules, with the
goal of amusing or rewarding the participant.”
• Video Game: “a mental contest, played with a computer according to certain rules
for amusement, recreation, or winning a stake.”
• Serious Game: “a mental contest, played with a computer in accordance with
specific rules that uses entertainment to further government or corporate training,
education, health, public policy, and strategic communication objectives.”
Zyda, M. (September 2005). “From visual simulation to virtual reality to games”. IEEE
Computer.

15. Main types
• Advergames
• Education and Learning
• Simulators
• Persuasive Games
• Organizational-dynamic games
• Games for Health

16. Advergames

17. Education and Learning

18. Simulators

19. Persuasive Games

20. Organizational-dynamic games

21. Games for health

22. Mainstream “serious games”

23. Conclusions
• Serious games are not only for education and training
• Serious game can be fun, or sad, or anything like that. The
point is that if not "engaging" (surrounding) is not a good
game.
• All games are serious, it depends on how we use it.

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