[game_edu] CFP: International Scientific Symposium - Evaluate and Measure the Impact of Serious Games -

[Patrick Felicia]

CALL FOR PAPER

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International Scientific Symposium « Evaluate and Measure the Impact of
Serious Games »
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On May 23rd in Valenciennes, we are organizing a scientific symposium
called “Evaluate and Measure the Impact of Serious Games” during the
international “evirtuoses” event. This meeting aims to ask questions on
approaches, paradigms, experience feedbacks enabling the projection of
theoretical frameworks, methodologies leading to evaluate or measure the
impact of Serious Games, but also to report on collected and analyzed
results. Serious Games generate indeed a strong interest by the
perspectives they promise to offer in terms
of prevention, training, education, learning, therapy, communication,
coaching, data collection, etc.… and in areas as varied as education,
training, healthcare, marketing, security, culture… If the question on how
to create a Serious Game remains important, we should ask ourselves how to
evaluate and measure the impact from a scientific point of view. This
builds into an essential step in order to bring guidance to sponsors,
users, creators and researchers.

The impact notion is described here as the effect or influence that Serious
Games generate on users but also on an ecosystem. We will explore 3 levels
of scale: micro, meso and macro. We can illustrate those three levels with
the study of a Serious Game user feedback (micro), the interactivity
between a user or a group of users and a Serious Game (meso), and the
interaction generated by a Serious
Game in an organized system of any size: institution, enterprise, city,
county (macro). These references are proposed as examples. Depending on the
scientific disciplines, the three levels may command different methods. Let
us note finally that the concept of effectiveness can also be associated
with the concept of impact within the framework of this Symposium.

The objective of this symposium is overall to provide input for a debate
based on sharing paradigms coming from several disciplinary approaches as
sciences of education, information and communication, psychology,
sociology, management, computing, neurosciences, Arts… This comparative
approach aims at offering a large specter to study an object which impact
can be divers and relative.

In order to summarize the thinking and the works of each participant, we
propose at the end of this symposium to co-write and publish a scientific
paper or a special issue on an on-line scientific review before the
beginning of 2013.

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Keywords:

Impact, Evaluation, Measure, Serious Game, Organized system, Ecosystem,
Effectiveness

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The planning is as follows:

- Text submission (~1500 words) before: April 18th 2012
- Notification to the Reading Committee: April 30th 2012
- Symposium on May 23rd
- Notification of the selection of chosen articles: June 1st 2012
- Final texts submission for publication: October 1st 2012

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The speech proposals can include:

- a long presentation (20 minutes and 10 minutes of Q&A)
- a short presentation (10 minutes and 5 minutes of Q&A)
- a poster

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Format:

The speech proposal can be submitted in English or French in Word or PDF
format.
Please use the template “Art-modele-Impact SG-2012.doc” you can download at
the following address: http://bit.ly/xjCLye

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Scientific Committee:

Serge Agostinelli (University of Marseillle, France)
Julian Alvarez (Supinfocom groupe Valenciennes/ University of Lille, France)
Raquel Becerril Ortega (University of Lille, France)
Pierre-André Caron (University of Lille, France)
Christophe Chaillou (University of Lille, France)
Yann Coello (University of Lille, France)
Damien Djaouti (University of Toulouse, France)
Pascal Estraillier (University of La Rochelle, France)
Abdelkader Gouaich (University of Montpellier, France)
Patrick Felicia (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Maurizio Forte (University of California, USA)
Sara de Freitas (Coventry University, UK)
Pamela Kato (University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands)
Christophe Kolski (University of Valenciennes, France)
Isabelle Laffont (University of Montpellier, France)
Sandy Louchart (University of Heriot-Watt, Scotland)
Denis Mottet (University of Montpellier, France)
Louise Sauvé (University of Québec at Montréal, Canada)
Gilson Schwartz (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Franck Tarpin-Bernard (INSA of Lyon, France)

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Partners:

Lille 1 University, Pôle Images, ARMIR, Polytech School, CCI Grand Hainaut

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Contact:

Julian Alvarez : j.alvarez at grandhainaut.cci.fr
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