1. Enhancing Scientific publications with serious games
Esther van der Drift & Koen Ekelschot
Enhancing Scientific publications with serious games
Esther

2. Problem statement
How can we enhance scientific publications in the field of social sciences through the use of serious games?
Core points
Scientific publications
Social sciences
Serious games
Esther

3. Motivation Traditional article
Enriched publications / Rich Internet Publications / The article of the future
Serious games?
Esther

4. Motivation
Serious games for educational purposes much more common these days
No research on using serious games for scientific communication
Serious games can be much more engaging and fun than multimedia applications.
Esther

5. Motivation Why social sciences?
Understandable for non-experts (less jargon than say, biology)
Diverse (e.g. cultural anthropology, educational sciences, psychology and sociology)
Experiments, communication concepts & theories
Koen

6. Current state of research
Defining serious games
“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."
Types of serious games:
Knowledge-based: Code Red: Triage
Skill-based: Re-mission
Koen

7. Work hypothesis What kind of research is done in social sciences?
Are there elements that can be mapped to serious games?
Visualizing/performing the experiment
???
A few examples of how one could develop a game based on scientific research
Koen

8. Hobbits and orcs problem
Esther
Jug problem

9. Research method Literature review Serious games
Different types
Effects on learning/understanding
Game elements / indicators
Conceptual, procedural, attitudinal
Research in social sciences
Cognitive theories
Performing experiments
Esther

10. Literature
Games:
Rollings, A. & Adams, E. (2003). On Game Design. Indianapolis: New Riders
Stapleton, A. (2004) Serious Games: Serious Opportunities. Paper presented at the Australian Game Developers’ Conference, Academic Summit, Melbourne, VIC.
Van der Spek, E.D., Wouters, P., & van Oostendorp, H. (2009). Code Red: Triage. Or, COgnition-Based DEsign Rules Enhancing Decisionmaking TRaining in a Game Environment. In Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, 2009(pp ). Coventry: IEEE.
Zyda, M. (2005). From Visual Simulation to Virtual Reality to Games. Computer, 38(9),
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11. Literature Social science:
Anderson, J.R., (2000). Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications. New York: Worth Publishers.
Huang, M.H., & Chang, Y.W. (2008). Characteristics of research output in social sciences and humanities: From a research evaluation perspective. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(11),
Loftus, E. F. (1996). Eyewitness testimony. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Loftus, E. F., & Pickerall, J. (1995). The formation of false memories. Psychiatric Annals, 25,
López, J., & Cáceres, M. (2010). Virtual games in social science education. Computers & Education, 55(3),
Koen

12. Planning 20-12: Types of research finished
30-12: Generalizing examples of games
10-01: Demo finished
15-01: Conclusions finished
17-01: Paper finished
24-01: Last refinements
Koen