GALA conference 2015

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

General Chair:

Alessandro De Gloria (University of Genoa, Italy) Program Chairs:

J. Michael Spector (University of North Texas, Usa)

Remco C. Veltkamp (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:

Games for mobility - Francesco Bellotti (University of Genoa, Italy) and Florian Häusler (Fraunhofer

FOKUS, Germany)

Games for Health - Laura A. Ripamonti and Dario Maggiorini (University of Milan, Italy) Program Committee: Anissa All (University of Gent, Belgium) Alessandra Antonaci (ITD-CNR, Italy) Sylvester Arnab (Coventry University, Uk) Jon Arambarri (Virtualwaregroup, Spain) Aida Azadegan (The University of the West Scotland, UK) Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge (BIBA, Germany) Per Backlund (Högskolan i Skövde, Sweden) Norman Badler (University of Pennsilvania, USA) Sylvie Barma (Université Laval, Canada) Francesco Bellotti (University of Genoa, Italy) Riccardo Berta (University of Genoa, Italy) Rafael Bidarra (TU Delft, Netherlands) Staffan Bjork (Chalmers, Sweden) Rosa Bottino (ITD-CNR, Italy) Maira Brandao Carvalho (University of Genoa, Italy/ Technical University of Einhoven, Netherlands) Sylvie Daniel (University Laval, Canada) Kurt Debattista (University of Warwick, UK)

Shujie Deng (University of Bournemouth, UK) Michael Derntl (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Frank Dignum (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) Miguel Encarnação (University of Louisvillèe, USA) Ester Fuoco (University of Genoa, Italy) Christos Gatzidis (Bournemouth University, UK) Manuel Gentile (ITD-CNR, Italy) Marja Heuvel-Van den Panhuizen (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Valerie Hill (Texas Women University) Dirk Ifenthaler (University of Mannheim, Italy) Carolina Islas Sedano (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) Michael Kickmeier-Rust (University of Graz, Austria) Ralph Klamma (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Silvia Kober (University of Graz, Austria) Milos Kravcik (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Niki Lambropoulos (Global Operations Division, Greece) Elisa Lavagnino (University of Genoa, Italy) George Lepouras (University of Peloponnese, Greece) Theo Lim (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Sandy Louchart (Glasgow School of Art Digital Design Studio, UK) Dario Maggiorini (University of Milan, Italy) Katerina Mania (Technical University of Crete, Greece) Fabrizia Mantovani (Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy) Michela Mortara (IMATI-CNR, Italy) Rob Nadolski (Open University, Netherlands) Aniket Nagle (ETHZ, Switzerland) Manuel Ninaus (University of Graz, Austria) Carmen Padron (ATOS, Spain) Lucia Pannese (I-maginary, Italy) Magda Popescu (Carol I Nat. Defence University, Romania) Rui Prada (INESC, Portugal) Marius Preda (Institut National des Télécommunications, France) Elena Putti (University of Genoa, Italy) Matthias Rauterberg (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) Laura Anna Ripamonti (University of Milan, Italy) Ion Roceanu (Carol I Nat. Defence University, Romania, Romania) Margarida Romero (Université Laval, Canada) Esther Judith Schek (Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy) Nicola Secco (University of Genoa, Italy) Ioana Stanescu (Carol I Nat. Defence University, Romania) Kam Star (Playgen, UK) Erik van der Spek (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) Herre van Oostendorp (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Peter Van Rosmalen (Open University, Netherlands) Remco Veltkamp (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Wim Westera (Open University, Netherlands) Antonie Wiedemann (University of Genoa, Italy) Peter Wolf (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland)

Local Arrangements Committee:

Elisa Lavagnino (University of Genoa, IT) Publications Chair:

Riccardo Berta (University of Genoa, IT) Communication Chair:

Francesco Bellotti (University of Genoa, IT) Administrative Chair:

Elisa Lavagnino (University of Genoa, IT)

Antonie Wiedemann (University of Genoa, IT)

Agenda 9-11 December

Rome

Day 1, Dec 9 Time Activities

13.30 Registration and reception

14.00 Games for mobility and intelligent transportation systems Workshop

Pergamon Workshop

14:45 Games for Health Workshop (Part 1)

ProtoWorld Tutorial (Part 1)

16.00 Coffee Break

16:30 Games for Health Workshop (Part 1)

ProtoWorld Tutorial (Part 2)

18:30 END OF DAY 1

Day 2, Dec 10 Time Activities

09.00 Registration and reception

09.30 Welcome by the chairs Alessandro De Gloria and Remco Veltkamp

9:45 "Serious Games state of art and future opportunities - A European perspective." Keynote by Marco Marsella

10:30 Session - Game design Session chair: Matthew Daggett

10:30 Bill Roungas and Fabiano Dalpiaz - A Model-driven Framework for Educational Game Design

10:50 Jan Dirk Fijnheer and Herre van Oostendorp - Steps to Design a Household Energy Game

11:10 Maria Freese and Sebastian Drees - D-CITE - A Serious Game to Analyze Complex Decision-Making in Air Traffic Management

11:30 Coffee Break

Poster session 1*

Poster session 1*

11:50 Session - Curricular games Session chair: Wim Westera

11:50 Nicholas Lytle and Mark Floryan - A Design Framework for Experiential History Games

12:10 Markus Siepermann - Teaching Statistics and Risk Management with Card Games

12:30 Seungho Baek, Ji-Young Park and Junghyun Han - Simulation-based Serious Games for Science Education in Elementary and Middle Schools

12:50 Jinsuk Yang, Kyoungsu Oh and Kiho Youm - English Vocabulary Learning System Based on Repetitive Learning and Rate-Matching Rule

13.10 Lunch

14:10 Session - Serious game Design Session chair: Sylvester Arnab

14:10 Grigorij Saveski, Wim Westera, Li Yuan, Paul Hollins, Baltasar Fernández Manjón, Pablo Moreno Ger and Krassen Stefanov What serious game studios want from ICT research: identifying developers’ needs

14:30 Laurent Bontoux, Daniel Bengtsson, Aaron Rosa and John A. Sweeney The JRC Scenario Exploration System: From Study to Serious Game

14:50 Peter Mayr, Harald Bendl and Frauke Moerike - The Double-Effect Approach to Serious Games in Higher Education: Students Designing and Developing Serious Games for other Students

15:10 Alfredo Imbellone, Giada Marinensi and Carlo Maria Medaglia - Instructions and Feedback in Connection with the Duration and the Level of Difficulty of a Serious Game

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Session - Games for rehabilitation Session chair: Riccardo Berta

16:00 Stefano Cardullo, Luciano Gamberini and Daniela Mapelli - Padua Rehabilitation Tool: a pilot study on patients with dementia

16:20 Bruno Bonnechère, Bart Jansen, Lubos Omelina, Victor Sholukha and Serge Van Sint Jan - Biomechanical analysis of rehabilitation exercises performed during Serious Games exercises

16:40 Corentin Haidon, Adrien Ecrepont, Benoit Girard and Bob-Antoine Jerry Menelas - Gamification of a truck-driving simulator for the care of people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder

17:00 Session – Pedagogy Session chair: Herre van Oostendorp

17:00 Esther Kuindersma, Jelke Van der Pal, Jaap Van den Herik and Aske Plaat - Voluntary Play in Serious Games

17:20 Jean-Nicolas Proulx and Margarida Romero - Game and learning mechanics under the perspective of self-determination theory for supporting motivation in game based learning

17:40 Erik Frank, Richard Lackes and Markus Siepermann - Mobile Game Based Learning based on Adaptive Curricula and Location Change

18:00 SG AWARDS

18.30 SGS assembly

20:30 GALA DINNER

Day 3, Dec 11 Time Activities

9:00 "Serious Games at the Far East Frontier" Keynote by Jung Hyun Han

9:30 Session - Analytics and decision making Session chair: Helmut Hlavacs

9:30 Matthew Daggett, Michael Hurley and Kyle O'Brien - An Information Theoretic Approach for Measuring Data Discovery and Utilization During Analytical and Decision-Making Processes

9:50 Giovanni Cucari, Francesco Leotta, Massimo Mecella and Stavros Vassos - Collecting Human Habit Datasets for Smart Spaces through Gamification and Crowdsourcing

10:10 Stavroula Bampatzia, Angeliki Antoniou and George Lepouras - Comparing game input modalities: A study for the evaluation of player experience by measuring self reported emotional states and learning outcomes

10:30 Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Alessandro De Gloria, Michela Ott, Maria Popescu and Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge - Supporting Collaborative Serious Game Studies Online

10:50 Coffee Break

Poster session 2*

11:20 Session - Games for disadvantaged children Session chair: Margarida Romero

11:20 Christoph Klimmt and Semhar Ogbazion - Interesting, but not Necessarily Effective: Testing a Serious Game with Socially Disadvantaged Children

11:40 Francesco Curatelli, Chiara Martinengo, Elisa Lavagnino and Antonie Rita Wiedemann - Involving cognitively disabled young people in focused mini SGs design: a case study

12:00 Vedad Hulusic and Nirvana Pistoljevic - Read, Play and Learn: An Interactive E-book for Children with Autism

12:20 Barbara Göbl, Helmut Hlavacs, Jessica Hofer, Isabelle Mueller, Helen Muellner, Claudia Schubert, Halina Helene Spallej, Charlotte Rybka and Manuel Sprung -MindSpace: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children with a CBT Game

12:40 Lunch

13:50 Session - Serious game tools Session chair: Jannicke Baalsrud-Hauge

14:10 K. C. Apostolakis, Petros Daras, Kosmas Dimitropoulos, Kyriaki Kaza, Athanasios Psaltis, Kiriakos Stefanidis, Spyridon Thermos and Evaggelia Dimaraki - Path of Trust: A prosocial co-op game for building up trustworthiness and teamwork

14:30 Margarida Romero - Digital game design as a complex learning activity for developing the 4Cs skills: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Critical thinking.

14:50 Agnese Augello, Manuel Gentile and Frank Dignum - Social Practices for Social Driven Conversations in Serious Games

15:10 Alysson Diniz Dos Santos and Piero Fraternali - A comparison of methodological frameworks for digital learning game design

15:30 Raffaello Brondi, Giovanni Avveduto, Marcello Carrozzino, Franco Tecchia, Leila Alem and Massimo Bergamasco - Immersive Technologies and Natural Interaction to Improve Serious Games Engagement

15:50 Coffee Break

16:20 Session - Serious game design Session chair: Harald Warmelink

16:20 Edward Oates - Learning and Designing with Serious Games: Crowdsourcing for Procurement

16:40 Andreas Herrler, Simon Grubert, Marko Kajzer, Sadie Behrens and Ralf Klamma - Development of a Mobile Serious Game for Self-Assessment as base for a Re-usable Teacher Framework

17:00 Session - Games for elderlies Session chair: Francesco Bellotti

17:00 Kyung Sik Kim, Yoonjung Lee and Doonam Oh - Development and Testing of a Serious Game for the Elderly (Title: Paldokangsan3)

17:20 Minh Khue Phan Tran, François Bremond and Philippe Robert - Assistance for Older Adults in Serious Game using an Interactive System

17:20 End of Gala Conf 2015

* Poster Session 1

1. Pieter Wouters, Herre van Oostendorp, Judith Ter Vrugte, Ton de Jong, Sylke Vandercruysse and Jan Elen, The Role of Surprise in Game-based Learning for Mathematics

2. Abdelrahman Sakr, Injy Hamed and Slim Abdennadher, iPlayAStory: A Language Learning Platform for Interactive Story-telling

3. Poul Kyvsgaard Hansen, Manuel Oliveira and Joao Costa, Co-design of a Game to Support Increased Manufacturing Insight and Interest among Teenagers and Young Adults

4. Christopher Walsh and Alexander Schmoelz, Stop the Mob! Pre-service teachers designing a serious game to challenge bullying

5. David Bond, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl and Sandy Louchart, Design and Implementation of the Jomini Engine: Towards a historical Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

6. Sylvester Arnab, Gemma Tombs, Michael Duncan, Mike Smith and Kam Star, Towards the Blending of Digital and Physical Learning Contexts with a Gamified and Pervasive Approach

7. Harald Warmelink, Marilla Valente, Richard van Tol and Robbertjan Schravenhoff, Get It Right! Introducing a framework for integrating validation in applied game design

8. Youngsuk Lee and Sangnam Kim, Design of "TRASH TREASURE", a characters-based Serious Game for Environmental Education

9. Catherine Sotirakou and Constantinos Mourlas, A Gamified News Application for Mobile devices: An approach that turns digital news readers into players of a social network

** Poster Session 2

1. Simon Campion, Paul Rees and David Roberts, A comparison of Film and Computer Generated Imagery medium for the learning of Chimpanzee behaviours

2. Stephanie de Smale, Tom Overmans, Johan Jeuring and Liesbeth van de Grint, The Effect of Simulations and Games on Learning Objectives in Tertiary Education: A Systematic Review

3. Konstantinos Georgiadis, Herre van Oostendorp and Jelke van der Pal, EEG Assessment of Surprise Effects in Serious Games

4. Alberto Mora Carreño, Panagiotis Zaharias, Carina Gonzalez and Joan Arnedo-Moreno, FRAGGLE: a FRamework for AGile Gamification of Learning Experiences

5. Jana Becker, Giel van Lankveld, Christina Steiner and Matthias Hemmje, Realizing an Applied Gaming Ecosystem

6. Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Ioana Stanescu, Antoniu Stefan and Theo Lim, Towards Modding and Reengineering Digital Games for Education

7. Mikko Dufva, Outi Kettunen, Anna Aminoff, Maria Antikainen, Henna Sundqvist-Andberg and Timo Tuomisto, Approaches to Gaming the Future: Planning a Foresight Game on Circular Economy

Proceedings

The proceedings of the conference have been published in the Springer LCNS series and are available at: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319402154

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