The second issue of the second volume of IJSG presents papers covering a variety of serious games R&D aspects, from significant user studies to a health application, from an analysis of game-based learning to a description of an interesting system architecture. What I would like to stress is the effort made by several authors – in this one and in previous issues as well – of critically analyzing the values and the features of serious games, in order to pass from the hype of the proclamations – which not always made good to our field – to the rigor and concreteness of science and technology.

 

VOL 2, NO 2 (2015)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Editorial Alessandro De Gloria

ARTICLES

Games are motivating, aren´t they? Disputing the arguments for digital game-based learning Wim Westera

One Size Does Not Fit All: A Smarter Way to Develop Computer Assisted Interventions for Children with ASD Michael B. Casale, Asim Mittal, Christina Whalen, Aubyn Stahmer, Jovy Quiocho, Sarah F. Vejnoska

Measuring Effectiveness of Persuasive Games Using an Informative Control Condition Mara Soekarjo, Herre van Oostendorp

An Emotional Engine for Behavior Simulators Santiago García Carbajal, Fabio Polimeni, Jose Luís Múgica

Simulators Observation and analysis of a classroom teaching and learning practice based on augmented reality and serious games on mobile platforms Sylvie Barma, Sylvie Daniel, Nathalie Bacon, Marie-Andrée Gingras, Mathieu Fortin

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Enhancing Healthy Habits Among Overweight and Obese Children Through Serious Games: Technological Comparison Jon Arambarri, Isabel de la Torre, Miguel López-Coronado, Daria Druzhinenko-Silhan

CORRIGENDUM

 

Corrigendum Alessandro De Gloria