Ryan Ko

Tim Marsh

Youngkyun Baek

This book highlights the challenges and potential of educational learning or industry-based training using serious games and social media platforms. In particular, the book addresses applications used in businesses and education-related organizations in Asia, where the framework and experience of serious games have been used to address specific problems in the real world. The topics that will be present in this book includes future of serious games and immersive technologies and their impact on society; online and mobile games; achievement systems in serious games; persuasive technology and games for saving and money management; malware analytics for social networking; serious games for mental health interventions; educational implications of social network games; learning and acquiring subject knowledge using serious games in classrooms. The target audience for this book includes scientists, engineers and practitioners involved in the field of Serious Games. The major part of this book comprises of papers that have been presented at the Serious Games and Social Connect 2012 conference held in Singapore (October 4, 2012). All the contributions have been peer reviewed and by scientific committee members with report about quality, content and originality.

Trends and Applications of Serious Gaming and Social Media

Stefan Göbel

Minhua Ma

Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

Bobbie Fletcher

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Joint International Conference on Serious Games, JCSG 2021, as virtual event, in January 2022. The 17 full papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. JSCG 2021 is dedicated to serious games and its interdisciplinary characteristics combining game concepts and technologies required in the different application domains.

Joint International Conference, JCSG 2021, Virtual Event, January 12–13, 2022, Proceedings

Serious Games

Yusuf Pisan

Nikitas Marinos Sgouros

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2014, held in Sydney, Australia, in October 2013. The 20 full papers, 6 short papers and 8 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. In addition to these papers, the program featured 3 demonstration papers, and 2 workshops. The papers cover various aspects of entertainment computing including authoring, development, use and evaluation of digital entertainment artefacts and processes.

13th International Conference, ICEC 2014, Sydney, Australia, October 1-3, 2014, Proceedings

Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2014

What are your leadership ambitions? To lead a volunteer group... To get that next promotion at work... Perhaps, you dream of becoming a CEO... Tuition Paid by Others will expedite reaching your maximum leadership potential by providing practical knowledge and lessons from someone who's been there. A collection of real-life, easy-to-read leadership stories, Tuition Paid by Others is relevant for any leader, from first-time supervisor to experienced executive. At the end of each leadership story, you will find simple yet fundamental lessons learned. These are the leadership equivalents of the childhood lesson... Don't put your finger in a light socket. At the conclusion of each chapter is a Bridging the Gap segment with knowledge basics ranging from leadership styles to appraisal types. These combine with Mind the Gap subchapters to complement the lessons learned from the leadership stories. Ultimately, everything works together so you learn from the tuition paid by others... Purchase the paperback or eBook today to get started.

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Manuel Fradinho Oliveira

Mariano Alcañiz

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Joint International Conference on Serious Games, JCSG 2017, held in Valencia, Spain, in November 2017. This conference bundles the activities of the 8th International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications, SGDA 2017, and the 7th Conference on Serious Games, GameDays 2017. The total of 23 full papers, 3 short papers, and 4 poster papers was carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The topics covered by the conference offered participants a valuable platform to discuss and learn about the latest developments, technologies and possibilities in the development and use of serious games with a special focus on how different fields can be combined to achieve the best possible results.

Third Joint International Conference, JCSG 2017, Valencia, Spain, November 23-24, 2017, Proceedings

Talking Safety summarises in a short user-friendly read the key element of safety leadership - the management and supervisor 'walk and talk'. Safety standards are set by a combination of three things: first, the basic systems: risk assessments, procedures, training, inductions and maintenance; second, the amount of objective learning about the inevitable weaknesses in these systems achieved from a ’Just Culture’ perspective; and third, the quality of ’transformational’ safety leadership which means coaching not telling, praising not criticising, leading by example and maximising front-line ownership and involvement. A good ’walk and talk’ is the only methodology that covers all of these issues and really should be embedded as ’part of the way we do things around here’. It is the centrepiece of any world class safety culture. Although covering all the key safety research findings by academics including Sidney Dekker, Andrew Hopkins and James Reason as well as latest influencing skills techniques from recent advances such as ’nudge’ theory it is written in an accessible style using everyday examples and case studies. You can use any of the five simple steps it outlines to make a difference day to day. Employ its advice fully and it will help you embed safety thinking, transform your safety culture and make safety part of ’the way we do things around here’.

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