Innovations in Game-Based Learning
A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (ISSN 2414-4088).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2022) | Viewed by 76696
Special Issue Editors
Interests: game-based learning; games research; human–computer interaction; embodied interaction; VR/AR; tangible learning environments
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Game-based learning (GBL) has emerged as a promising direction for supplementing and improving the delivery of educational content. In particular, games facilitate a variety of beneficial learning techniques, such as explorative learning, trial and error, inquiry-based learning, learning by doing, and many others. Furthermore, by combining innovative designs and immersive technologies with game-based learning, such approaches can further help to build and understand novel spaces for learning that are realistic and believable yet invite experimentation and exploration without concern for success or failure. Therefore, GBL offers unique potential to address the constantly evolving needs, challenges, and requirements of individuals from a variety of age groups and backgrounds.
For this Special Issue on “Multimodal Technologies and Interaction”, the aim is to collect cutting-edge research that deepens our understanding of how to design, build, deploy, and/or study technologies that enhance learning processes and educational settings.
Topics of interest for submissions include (but are not limited to):
- Game-based learning;
- Emerging technologies in GBL:
- Augmented and virtual reality;
- Novel or customized game interfaces, devices, or toys;
- Tangibles;
- Mobile games;
- Pervasive and location-based games;
- Artificial intelligence;
- Novel techniques or designs for GBL;
- Assessment and evaluation of educational games;
- Educational game design;
- Educational game development;
- Case studies of educational games;
- Social and collaborative play in GBL;
- Analytics and visualization tools/techniques for GBL;
- Serious games;
- Persuasive games;
- Simulations;
- Gamification of learning;
- Embodied interaction for GBL;
- Position papers on GBL, the limitations and strengths of GBL, or the future of GBL;
- Gender, age, and socioeconomic issues in GBL.
Dr. Edward Melcer
Dr. Dominic Kao
Guest Editors
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