Serious Games Development and Applications: Second International Conference, SGDA 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 19-20, 2011, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6944)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications, SGDA 2011, held in Lisbon, Portugal in September 2011. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for publication. Among the topics addressed are virtual reality, computer assisted learning, computer graphics, tutoring systems, e-learning, e-culture, and guiding systems. Front Matter....Pages - Gaze-Dependent Depth-of-Field Effect Rendering in Virtual Environments....Pages 1-12 Personalized Storytelling for Educational Computer Games....Pages 13-22 Impact of the Feeling of Knowledge Explicitness in the Learners’ Participation and Performance in a Collaborative Game Based Learning Activity....Pages 23-35 Virtual Location-Based Indoor Guide....Pages 36-48 What Can Bits Teach about Leadership: A Study of the Application of Variation Theory in Serious Games....Pages 49-60 Serious Game for Introductory Programming....Pages 61-71 Game Design Evaluation Study for Student Integration....Pages 72-82 Towards a Serious Game for Portuguese Learning....Pages 83-94 Serious Games: Are They Part of the Solution in the Domain of Cognitive Rehabilitation?....Pages 95-105 A Cloud Observational Learning System of Art Education via E-Learning in Taiwan....Pages 106-116 The Use of Integrative Framework to Support the Development of Competences....Pages 117-128 A SUNNY DAY: Ann and Ron’s World an iPad Application for Children with Autism....Pages 129-138 Ordsall Hall in Manchester: A Creative Game for Heritage Studies....Pages 139-145 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications, SGDA 2014, held in Berlin, Germany, in October 2014. The 14 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The focus of the papers was on the following: games for health, games for medical training, serious games for children, music and sound effects, games for other purposes, and game design and theories. This text constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications, SGDA 2011, held in Lisbon, Portugal in September 2011. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for publication