This document discusses the potential of games and simulations for learning and skills development. It notes that gaming technologies can transform learning systems and that building games represents a qualitative shift in how we approach production, learning, and research. It advocates experimenting with learning systems that blend physical, virtual, and machine realities and leveraging existing educational gaming environments.
27. Case 4: Disaster Configurator
for the Rotterdam Port Authority
Case study: Emergency Response
Training, Pjotr van Schothorst
VSTEP BV, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands
The medium of gaming represents a
qualitative shift in learning systems.
28.
29. Games are an extension of the physical environment.
30. Games are an extension of the human nervous system.
34. A robust program of research and
experimentation is needed to enhance
development of educational games by
stimulating transfer of the art and
technologies of video games to
education and learning systems.
High development costs in an uncertain
market for educational innovations
make developing complex high-production
learning games too risky for video
game and educational materials
industries.
Educational institutions need to transform
organizational systems and
instructional practices to take greater
advantage of new technology, including
educational games.
Outcome data from large-scale
evaluations of educational games are
needed to demonstrate that these
technologies are equal to or offer
comparative advantage vs. conventional
IM.
35.
36. We seek to advance
the learning and
career development
of science,
technology,
engineering and
mathematics
domains (STEM)
using a vanguard
educational solution
that combines real
world simulation
tools with video
game technologies.
37. • International (TIMSS) test scores show U.S.
4th
graders to be 12th
in the world in math;
6th
in the world in science
• International (TIMSS) test scores show U.S.
8th
graders to be 14th
in the world in math;
9th
in the world in science
• International (PISA) test scores show U.S.
12th graders to be 24th in the world in
math; 22nd in the world in science
Data from National Center for Education Statistics. In Mayo 2005, National Academies.
(http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/PISA2003Highlights.asp and http://nces.ed.gov/timss/Results03.asp)
National Center for Education Statistics, Mayo, 2005.
38. Data from National Center for Education Statistics . In Mayo 2005, National Academies.
(http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/PISA2003Highlights.asp and http://nces.ed.gov/timss/Results03.asp)
“The longer we stay in
the educational system,
the worse off we are
with respect to our
peers.”
Source: Mayo, National Academies2005
39.
40.
41. • Serious Games
• The Next Wave of HSI-HCI
• The 5th
World
• TSTC Opportunities
5th
World
50. Different rooms for learning styles
Group work
Reflective
observation
Active
experimentation
GC: Palestine
Lecture Abstract
concepts
Concrete
experiences
•Kolb’s cycle covered with
different teaching forms in
the course.
• The teacher is crucial to
facilitate a full learning
experience.
Empirical study
55. $7.5 million project that immerses students in the hectic environment of a hospital's
intensive care unit and places them in a first-person role as a health-care professional.
Funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, Pulse!! is being developed by Texas
A&M-Corpus Christi, which in turn hired Hunt Valley (Md.)-based BreakAway to
produce and design the platform. –Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2006/id20060410_051875.htm
Pulse!!
78. Vienna University of Technology
Players operate track switches and
adjusting the speed of virtual trains to prevent virtual trains from colliding.
Researchers Daniel Wagner, Thomas Pintaric and Dieter Schmalstieg
86. Video games
are leading us to
new affective,
cognitive and
psychomotor
domains of
HSI…
A new
relationship
between
humans and
machines.
87. • Serious Games
• The Next Wave of HSI-HCI
• The 5th
World
• TSTC Opportunities
5th
World
88. Player
Incr. hand-eye coord
reaction time
spatial visualization
neuro-psych. tests
visual attentiveness
and mental rotation
http://www.wehealnewyork.org/BI%20Surgeon%20teams%20up%20with%20Hollywood.htm
James “Butch” Rosser, M.D.,
Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery,
Director of the Advanced Medical Technology Institute (AMTI)
Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan
According to Rosser’s study,
surgeons who currently play or
previously played video games
had a 37% reduction in errors
and accomplish laparoscopic
surgical tasks 27% quicker.
100. Why do you modify games?
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9
8
8
9
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Playing Yes
Playing No
Learning Yes
Learning No
Show Yes
Show No
Better Yes
Better No
110. This study was funded by the State Farm
Companies Foundation and by Dr. George
Kozmetsky (1917-2003), founder of the IC²
Institute. The study was designed and
analyzed, and the report was written by a
team at The University of Texas at Austin:
Aliza Gold, Senior Producer and Researcher
at the Digital Media Collaboratory, part of
the IC² Institute
Emily Durden, PhD candidate in Sociology
Marjorie L. Kase, M.A. in Communication
Shane Alluah, PhD candidate in Educational
Psychology
Ana Boa-Ventura, PhD candidate in
Communication
The research team would like to thank the
participating schools and their
administrators:
Elgin Middle School
Goodnight Middle school
Miller Junior High
Fleming Middle School
111. Low SES: More TV
and More Video
Games
TV
Games
A. Gold, IC2
Institute, UT Austin, Forthcoming
112. Females Males
Designer/Decorator Professional athlete
Doctor Video Game Designer
Cosmetologist Business Owner
Lawyer Engineer
Teacher Lawyer
Business Owner Military Service
Musician/Singer Auto Mechanic
Cook/Chef Computer Programmer
A. Gold, IC2
Institute, UT Austin, Forthcoming
119. • Serious Games
• The Next Wave of HSI-HCI
• The 5th
World
• TSTC Opportunities
5th
World
120. Transcend the semantic gap
between “gaming” and
learning. Game systems,
game technologies and
gaming techniques are
transforming the world at
Kurzweil’s pace.
121. www.kurzweilai.net/.../ SIN_headshot_highres.html
“An analysis of the
history of technology
shows that
technological change is
exponential, contrary to
the common-sense
‘intuitive linear’ view. So
we won't experience
100 years of progress
in the 21st century -- it
will be more like 20,000
years of progress (at
today's rate)… because
we're doubling the rate
of progress every
decade, we'll see a
century of progress--at
today's rate--in only 25
calendar years.”
Kurzweil, KurzweilAI.net, March 7, 2001.
122. Modeling, Simulation and
Gaming (MS&G) require
an evolution of our
notions of media literacy,
media criticism,
educational technology
and 21st
Century skills.
130. Different rooms for learning styles
Group work
Reflective
observation
Active
experimentation
GC: Palestine
Lecture Abstract
concepts
Concrete
experiences
•Kolb’s cycle covered with
different teaching forms in
the course.
• The teacher is crucial to
facilitate a full learning
experience.
Empirical study
132. Join emerging global education networks such
as NMC to develop collaboration and to learn.
133. Building games
represents a qualitative
transformation of our
notion of production,
learning and R&D. They
are united in game
construction into one
transdisciplinary act.
153. “spaceTEAMS can return San
Antonio to the path of human
development and space
exploration making it in the realm
of possibility that the first person
to walk on Mars will be from San
Antonio.”
--General Robert F. McDermott and Dr. Francis “Duke” Kane
154. • Serious Games
• The Next Wave of HSI-HCI
• The 5th
World
• TSTC Opportunities
5th
World
Ender's Game for Science and Engineering: Games for Real, For Now, or We Lose the Brain War Merrilea J. MayoDirector, GUIRR (Govt-Univ-Ind Research Roundtable)The National Academies
Ender's Game for Science and Engineering: Games for Real, For Now, or We Lose the Brain War Merrilea J. MayoDirector, GUIRR (Govt-Univ-Ind Research Roundtable)The National Academies
Free video game teaches kids about world hungerBY JINNY GUDMUNDSEN
GANNETT NEWS SERVICE
Live 8, the global concerts earlier this month to fight poverty in Africa, greatly increased awareness of world hunger. But most kids don't understand how international aid organizations work to help starving people.
That's where a video game can help. "Food Force" gives kids between the ages of 8 and 13 a better understanding of how relief organizations operate.
Produced by the United Nations' World Food Programme, "Food Force" is a free Internet download at www.food-force.com.
Kids join a team of emergency aid workers to save the fictitious island of Sheylan from starvation caused by drought and civil war.
The team goes on six missions to help save the island. Each mission starts with a briefing by one of the emergency aid characters. Kids then play a hands-on game to score enough points to complete the mission. For example, in the first mission, kids pilot a helicopter by using the computer mouse. Time is limited, and youngsters earn points by locating refugees. After piloting, the Food Force character returns to evaluate the kids' performance and uses an accompanying video that shows the program in action to make the whole process seem realistic.
The additional missions cleverly use games to demonstrate how emergency aid teams acquire food, make food packs, deliver food and establish long-term food supplies.
When kids complete all six missions, they can upload their cumulative score to an international database found on the Food Force Web site. The Web site also provides information about how kids can help fight hunger, and it allows them to explore more about the World Food Programme. Teachers also will find lesson plans that incorporate the game.
The program effectively reaches 'tweens and teens with 3-D graphics and characters that resemble those in popular commercial titles, helping bring closer to home the problems of world hunger, which are most often thousands of miles away.
The game is best for ages 8 to 13. It scores a perfect five stars.
For more information, see www.food-force.com, United Nations' World Food Programme, offering free downloadable program for Windows and Macintosh.
The Middle East is far away. This is your chance to get closer. Play a young journalist that has just arrived in Israel, and shape the region's future in a peaceful direction. You must complete your assignment at all cost navigating between Palestinians and Israeli sources to get your article. Will you be able to stay objective and maintain trust on both sides as the conflict escalates. What happens when people become much more than just your sources... While playing the game as a student or player you will learn about the conflict. You will engage with real personal stories seeing the conflicts from different perspectives and experience why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict just won't go away. The game will have extensive support for educational use with features like encyclopedia, primary sources, assessment and teacher's manual.
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The Invisible Train
The Invisible Train is the first real multi-user Augmented Reality application for handheld devices (PDAs). Unlike other projects, in which wearable devices were merely used as thin-clients, while powerful (PC-based) servers performed a majority of the computations (such as graphics rendering), our software runs independently on off-the-shelf PDAs - eliminating the need for an expensive infractructure.
The Invisible Train is a mobile, collaborative multi-user Augmented Reality (AR) game, in which players control virtual trains on a real wooden miniature railroad track. These virtual trains are only visible to players through their PDA's video see-through display as they don't exist in the physical world. This type of user interface is commonly called the "magic lens metaphor".
Players can interact with the game environment by operating track switches and adjusting the speed of their virtual trains. The current state of the game is synchronized between all participants via wireless networking. The common goal of the game is to prevent the virtual trains from colliding.
The success of the Invisible Train installation illustrates the advantages of our Studierstube software framework, a component-based system architecture that has been designed to accelerate the task of developing and deploying collaborative Augmented Reality applications on handheld devices.
Why Handheld Augmented Reality?
Augmented Reality (AR) can naturally complement mobile computing on wearable devices by providing an intuitive interface to a three-dimensional information space embedded within physical reality. However, prior work on mobile Augmented Reality has almost exclusively been undertaken with traditional "backpack"-systems that consist of a notebook computer, an HMD, cameras and additional supporting hardware. Although these systems work well within a constrained laboratory environment, they fail to fulfill several usability criteria to be rapidly deployed to inexperienced users, as they are expensive, cumbersome and require high level of expertise.
Since the early experiments in Mobile Augmented Reality, a variety of highly portable consumer devices with versatile computing capabilities has emerged. We believe that handheld computers, mobile phones and personal digital assistants have the potential to introduce Augmented Reality to large audiences outside of a constrained laboratory environment. The relative affordability of devices that are capable of running our software framework opens up new possibilities for experimenting with massively multi-user application scenarios - thereby bringing us closer to the goal of "AR anytime, anywhere".
The Invisible Train
The Invisible Train is the first real multi-user Augmented Reality application for handheld devices (PDAs). Unlike other projects, in which wearable devices were merely used as thin-clients, while powerful (PC-based) servers performed a majority of the computations (such as graphics rendering), our software runs independently on off-the-shelf PDAs - eliminating the need for an expensive infractructure.
The Invisible Train is a mobile, collaborative multi-user Augmented Reality (AR) game, in which players control virtual trains on a real wooden miniature railroad track. These virtual trains are only visible to players through their PDA's video see-through display as they don't exist in the physical world. This type of user interface is commonly called the "magic lens metaphor".
Players can interact with the game environment by operating track switches and adjusting the speed of their virtual trains. The current state of the game is synchronized between all participants via wireless networking. The common goal of the game is to prevent the virtual trains from colliding.
The success of the Invisible Train installation illustrates the advantages of our Studierstube software framework, a component-based system architecture that has been designed to accelerate the task of developing and deploying collaborative Augmented Reality applications on handheld devices.
Why Handheld Augmented Reality?
Augmented Reality (AR) can naturally complement mobile computing on wearable devices by providing an intuitive interface to a three-dimensional information space embedded within physical reality. However, prior work on mobile Augmented Reality has almost exclusively been undertaken with traditional "backpack"-systems that consist of a notebook computer, an HMD, cameras and additional supporting hardware. Although these systems work well within a constrained laboratory environment, they fail to fulfill several usability criteria to be rapidly deployed to inexperienced users, as they are expensive, cumbersome and require high level of expertise.
Since the early experiments in Mobile Augmented Reality, a variety of highly portable consumer devices with versatile computing capabilities has emerged. We believe that handheld computers, mobile phones and personal digital assistants have the potential to introduce Augmented Reality to large audiences outside of a constrained laboratory environment. The relative affordability of devices that are capable of running our software framework opens up new possibilities for experimenting with massively multi-user application scenarios - thereby bringing us closer to the goal of "AR anytime, anywhere".
“Although we often hear about the reasons kids should not play video games, there is, indeed, a positive correlation between video gaming and increased hand-eye coordination, reaction time, spatial visualization, neuro-psychological tests, visual attentiveness and mental rotation,” says Dr. Rosser. “Those are all skills that are required to be a successful surgeon.”A study conducted at Beth Israel Medical Center by Dr. Rosser, found a significant correlation between video game experience and proficiency at laparoscopic surgery. According to the study, surgeons who currently play or previously played video games had a 37 percent reduction in errors and accomplish laparoscopic surgical tasks 27 percent quicker. “The studies confirm what some physicians have long suspected – video games can be natural teachers,” says Dr. Mogel. “However, this probably has been unintended by the game designers.”
The careers are ordered by priority.
Design-related fields are at the top fo the chart for both females and males.
Males in middle school are described in the literature as being more likely to have interests that could be labeled “fantasy careers’ or “glamour careers.”
The Age of Spiritual Machines – When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology
The most important thing to understand about Whyville really, is that it’s a place full of kids. It’s a virtual city that belongs to the kids who come from all over the world to have fun. The kids consider this their own town, and they call themselves Whyvillians.
To become a Whyvillian, you create a Whyville persona. In this screen, and every other screen you’ve already seen, for example, each face is a Whyville citizen. To become a Whyville citizen, you create a persona, the most important aspect of which is your face.
You can see here that the faces are varied and very creative. Here’s an amoeba. Here’s someone driving a car. Here is someone wearing a style known as ‘Goth’. The ungliest citizens you see around are in fact us, the city workers.
., all integrated through the design process. The key to success in mechatronics is: modeling, analysis, experimentation & hardware-implementation skills.