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Model This: Borut Pfeifer on serious games
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Thursday, 8 April 2010. Borut Pfeifer on serious games. Borut Pfeifer wrote in his blog. About the misconceptions caused by the name serious games. He quotes a great sentence by Suzanne Seggerman:. You can’t find Bob Dylan in the serious music section of iTunes. On the second part, Ian Bogost wrote a whole book. In order to explain that argument (although he uses a more appropriate name). 13 April 2010 at 06:00. After several discussions on the topic, Id clarify the following:. Based in Irvine, Californi...
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Model This: Review of Definitions of Highly-Interactive Virtual Environments for Learning
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Friday, 9 September 2011. Review of Definitions of Highly-Interactive Virtual Environments for Learning. Here I discuss distinctions between games, simulations and other platforms. Although research on business simulations and games has a long history and a number of authors have put forward definitions, in literature still very often these are used interchangeably and without consideration of exact terminology. A review of defining efforts has been done e.g. by Sauve and colleagues (2007). Among others,...
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Model This: The Duality of Game Studies
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Wednesday, 2 May 2012. The Duality of Game Studies. Being interactive media, games provide the opportunity to look at them in two distinct ways. One is the approach typical for literary studies (analysing the particular product as this is done also in film studies). The other is an approach taken in product usability - analysing the lived experience or mental models that game players create when playing games. The literary approach is the one taken by the Game Studies online journal. Based in Irvine, Cal...
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Model This: It's Just Birds
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Friday, 11 March 2011. Today I've been sent an article about the cognitive complexity of the user experience. Of Angry Birds. I do appreciate the author's arguments, but to me the success of the game is rather due to outstanding marketing, than to any remarkably good user experience or game design. Charles Mauro's explanation of how the game manages cognitive load. And the connection he makes to the theory of flow. Was 20 years ago and Worms. And World of Goo. As for what the author calls "mistery", I'd ...
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Model This: Is Mathematical Modelling Inherently Destructive?
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Wednesday, 7 September 2016. Is Mathematical Modelling Inherently Destructive? I stumbled upon an article summarising Cathy O’Neil's book " Weapons of Math Destruction. I myself have had a long journey with Mathematics. I was in one of those Eastern European classes that generate " geniuses. And you read about them in the press. In my class I've had (if I remember correctly) two world medalists in what they call Mathematical Olympiad. Well, this is not because it didn't feel fun to me. The reason is ...
