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Serious Games and Edutainment Applications
Nikola Antonopolous
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Description for Serious Games and Edutainment Applications
Hardback. Game development in the Cloud is an insightful introduction to cloud computing and games in the Cloud, with cutting edge academic research and industry updates that inform readers of current and future advances in the field. Editor(s): Ma, Minhua; Jain, Prof. Lakhmi C.; Oikonomou, Andrea. Num Pages: 504 pages, biography. BIC Classification: UMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 33. Weight in Grams: 908.
The 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. Serious Games and Edutainment Applications offers an ... Read more
The 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. Serious Games and Edutainment Applications offers an ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer London Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
England, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447121602
SKU
V9781447121602
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99-15
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