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Full Lifecycle Architecture for Serious Games: Integrating Game Learning Analytics and a Game Authoring Tool

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Serious Games (JCSG 2017)

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The engaging and goal-oriented nature of serious games has been proven to increase student motivation. Games also allow learning assessment in a non-intrusive fashion. To increase adoption of serious games, their full lifecycle, including design, development, validation, deployment and iterative refinement must be made as simple and transparent as possible. Currently serious games impact analysis and validation is done on a case-by-case basis. In this paper, we describe a generic architecture that integrates a game authoring tool, uAdventure, with a standards-based Game Learning Analytics framework, providing a holistic approach to bring together development, validation, and analytics, that allows a systematic analysis and validation of serious games impact. This architecture allows game developers, teachers and students access to different analyses with minimal setup; and improves game development and evaluation by supporting an evidence-based approach to assess both games and learning. This system is currently being extended and used in two EU H2020 serious games projects.

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The e-UCM research group has been partially funded by Regional Government of Madrid (eMadrid S2013/ICE-2715), by the Ministry of Education (TIN2013-46149-C2-1-R) and by the European Commission (RAGE H2020-ICT-2014-1-644187, BEACONING H2020-ICT-2015-687676).

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    Cristina Alonso-Fernandez, Dan C. Rotaru, Manuel Freire, Ivan Martinez-Ortiz & Baltasar Fernandez-Manjon

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  1. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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  2. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  3. Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom

    Minhua Ma

  4. SINTEF Technology and Society, Trondheim, Norway

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  5. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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Alonso-Fernandez, C., Rotaru, D.C., Freire, M., Martinez-Ortiz, I., Fernandez-Manjon, B. (2017). Full Lifecycle Architecture for Serious Games: Integrating Game Learning Analytics and a Game Authoring Tool. In: Alcañiz, M., Göbel, S., Ma, M., Fradinho Oliveira, M., Baalsrud Hauge, J., Marsh, T. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10622. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70111-0_7

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