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School Uses Video Games To Teach Thinking Skills

June 29, 2010

Students at Quest to Learn in New York City huddle around a computer to work on a podcast. At the school, students can design and create podcasts and video games as part of the curriculum.

A novel public school in New York City has taken the video game as its model for how to teach. Students use video games and design them as part of their classes. As Quest to Learn is wrapping up its first year, those behind the program say game-based learning is integral to 21st century literacy.

Games for Good: Read Our Article In the Cognitive Technology Journal

June 7, 2010

Matthew Sharritt, President of Situated Research, has an article titled “Designing Game Affordances to Promote Learning and Engagement” appearing in a special issue of the Cognitive Technology Journal. The issue, focusing on “Games for Good”, contains our article (starting on p. 43).

Ford Ergonomics Lab: Optimized by Gaming Technology

May 27, 2010

When Glenn Harrington donned a motion capture suit complete with more than 40 reflective spheres he wasn’t being turned into the latest video game character, but helping to design car manufacturing jobs that are less physically stressful on workers.

Using Serious Games to Boost Quality & Productivity at Microsoft

January 12, 2010

From: Score One for Quality! Using Games to Improve Product Quality by Joshua Williams and Ross Smith Abstract:

In this paper we describe how using a game can improve both the quality of a product, but the quality of life of the employees as well. We call this kind of game a “Productivity Game.”

Video Game Usability – Why is it Important

September 15, 2009

Usability is an integral part of software development and has been so for the past 20 years. For one reason or another, usability has not gained similar popularity in game development. This, however, is about to change.

Serious Games as Natural User Interfaces At The Office

August 7, 2009

Project Natal brings natural user interfaces the office

Mundie: The Desktop Of The Future Is A Room
Microsoft’s Craig Mundie demonstrates natural user interface technologies (photo credit: Robert Sorbo/Microsoft)

Defining Serious Games

July 10, 2009

Serious games occupy the training-based category of game development products. Serious games are utilitarian and goal-oriented, offering the user protocol-driven functional engagement, acknowledgment of task achievements, and almost zero entertainment value or fluff (outside of the necessary local and peripheral “traffic” caused by natural interaction with other life and environmental elements – human, animal, plant, mechanical, and weather). Serious games subject matter is typically taught to employees-in-training, re-assigned employees, or emergency preparedness / non-profit volunteers within any line of work, from leadership to trench-level roles. That learned material is, then, put to use in real world employment or deployment scenarios, from how to properly drain and dispose of vegetable oil from a fish-and-chips fryer to how to properly disassemble, diagnose, and repair the turbines on a military helicopter.