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Serious Games: Between Training and Entertainment

Authors:
Andres Navarro
Juan Vicente Pradilla
Patricia Madriñán
Sebastian Londoño

Keywords: games, serious games, e-learnning, trainning software

Abstract:
The game industry has suffered an impressive explosion of popularity, becoming the largest entertainment industry in the world. Games have become a sophisticated extension of the reality and an interesting way for complementing human mind utopias. Training software allows the trainee to immerse in quasi-real controlled situations that could be measured by trainers. In this work we discuss the duality existing between the training based on a serious game and a simple game, based on state of the art technologies. Then we show a training system for telecommunications technicians based on a combination between serious games and “traditional” e-learning platform

Pages: 72 to 75

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: February 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4367

ISBN: 978-1-61208-120-5

Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011