Serious Games and Edutainment Applications - 9781447158110

Serious Games and Edutainment ApplicationsAuthor(s): Minhua Ma, Andreas Oikonomou, Lakhmi C Jain\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer London Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Springer London Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781447158110, 978-1447158110\nSynopsis\nThe recent re-emergence of serious games as a branch of video games and as a promising frontier of education has introduced the concept of games designed for a serious purpose other than pure entertainment. To date the major applications of serious games include education and training, engineering, medicine and healthcare, military applications, city planning, production, crisis response, to name just a few. If utilised alongside, or combined with conventional training and educational approaches, serious games could provide a more powerful means of knowledge transfer in almost every application domain. \n\nSerious Games and Edutainment Applications offers an insightful introduction to the development and applications of games technologies in e.