Impact of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Gaming Elements on Online Purchase Intention by Xiaomei Wu, Silvia Santana

“…The results of this research may help game designers to identify the right design features for the right customers, which has important practical implications for online business development.…”
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Data-Assisted Persona Construction Using Social Media Data by Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Dionisis Margaris, Costas Vassilakis

“…This work may be used to model personas and recommend suitable ones to designers of other products, such as advertisers, game designers and moviegoers.…”
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Downpour! – Flood risk communication through interactive immersive street games by Jana Wendler

“…The game was created by a street game designer in collaboration with film-makers, environmental scientists and public institutions, with performances at the Manchester Science Festival and the Festival of Social Science 2016. …”
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Who Narrates a Video Game? by Zlatko Bukač

“…Hideo Kojima, for example, is one of the most recognizable, if not the most renowned director and video game designer, whose every game (although developed in detail by many other people) is seen through the lenses of his vision and style. …”
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Enhancing classroom management through parental involvement by using social networking apps by Yung-hsun Cheng, Yu-chi Chen

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Digging the Digital: Beat Modalities and the Representation of the Beats in Video Games by Tomasz Sawczuk

“…By, on the one hand, mapping out the categories of Beat references in video game narratives and, on the other, setting them against the backdrop of existing models of (mis)appropriating the Beats in visual culture, I will seek to explore the ways in which video game designers venture into the Beat ethos and I wish to address the implications this bears for the lineage of Beat pop-cultural presence. …”
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Improving the TaleBlazer multiplayer platform by Narayanan, Arjun V

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The Impact of Mental Model in Older Adults’ Experience of Digital Games by Shu, Shi

“…The results of the study gives valuable implications for digital game designers to make the digital experience more accessible for the expanding aging demographic.…”
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TaleBlazer : a platform for creating multiplayer location based games by Medlock-Walton, Michael Paul

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Review on serious-education games for slow learners by Siti Nuraishah, Nazri, Tuty Asmawaty, Abdul Kadir, Siti Normaziah, Ihsan

“…This study shows that games designed for education provide children with a great learning experience. …”
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Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Path Planning Domain in Grid-like Environment by Maciej Grzelczak, Piotr Duch

“…In this paper, the applicability of the deep reinforcement learning algorithms with regards to the aforementioned problem is tested on a simulation game designed and implemented to pose various challenges such as constant change of delivery locations. …”
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Battlespace Next(TM) by Nathaniel Flack, Alan Lin, Gilbert Peterson, Mark Reith

“…Battlespace NextTM (BSN) is a serious game designed to teach concepts integral to MDO and initiate discussion on military strategy while conserving time, money, and manpower. …”
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Applying game-based learning to a primary school class in computer science terminology learning by Bolganay Kaldarova, Bakhytzhan Omarov, Lyazzat Zhaidakbayeva, Abay Tursynbayev, Abay Tursynbayev, Gulbakhram Beissenova, Bolat Kurmanbayev, Almas Anarbayev

“…The children were satisfied with its functionality and ease of use.DiscussionThe results can be useful for educators, instructional and game designers, and researchers from implementation, design and research perspectives.…”
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Serious Games and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Dental Education: An Integrative Review of the Literature by Kawin Sipiyaruk, Stylianos Hatzipanagos, Patricia A. Reynolds, Jennifer E. Gallagher

“…Following consideration of inclusion and exclusion criteria, 15 articles on 11 serious games designed for dental education were included in this review. …”
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Approaches to illuminate content-specific gameplay decisions using open-ended game data by Rosenheck, Louisa, Cheng, Meng-Tzu, Lin, Chen-Yen, Klopfer, Eric

“…In the context of the selected game quest, the three approaches were found to yield insights into different ways that students complete tasks in genetics, suggesting the potential for a set of more generalized guiding questions in the GLA field that could be adopted by learning games designers and data scientists to convey information about content-specific gameplay decisions in learning games.…”
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Augmented reality to induce enjoyment in edutainment mobile game by Oo Yew, Beng Keat, Wahid, Noorhaniza, Murli, Norhanifah, A. Hamid, Rahayu

“…Edutainment-based game is a game designed to make the learning process become more fun. …”
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Motives of using business games in corporate management by O.A. Khilukha

“…The author defines a business game as an element of innovative training technologies, which build professional qualities of a specialist by immersion in a specific situation modelled by the game designer. The game activity is the most important means for building the professional qualities of a specialist, a manager, in particular, it is able to change the way of thinking and behavior, become the incentive of creative activity, and contested action. …”
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Disentangling real-world and virtual-world social norms: The persuasive elements and social psychological effects of a serious game by Traci Hong, Joshua Cabrera, Christopher E. Beaudoin

“…In the immersive environment of an online serious video game designed to depict social norms about excessive alcohol consumption, this study examines the effects of real-world and virtual-world social norms on alcohol use outcomes, centering on the persuasive elements of the One Shot game and its social psychological effects. …”
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Usefulness of Digital Serious Games in Engineering for Diverse Undergraduate Students by Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Gabrielle Jacob

“…We found that students had different expectations of educational digital games than games designed for entertainment used outside of classroom environments. …”
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A Comparison between Online Quizzes and Serious Games: The Case of Friend Me by Lampros Karavidas, Georgina Skraparli, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos

“…The objective of our study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a serious game designed for the self-assessment of students concerning their knowledge of web technologies on students with an equivalent online quiz that uses the same collection of questions. …”
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