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IACSS 2019: Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport (IACSS 2019) pp 193–200Cite as

Towards a Generic Framework for Serious Games

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Serious Games are full-fledged games that aim at accomplishing a double mission: to achieve the serious goal without compromising the experience of playing a game (player experience, PX). To develop high-quality Serious Games, an interdisciplinary approach is required which integrates computer science, technology and design, psychology, and pedagogy as well as insights from the application domain.

So far, only domain-specific frameworks have been proposed for selected application fields. Therefore, the aim of this contribution is to present a generic framework and to demonstrate its usefulness by applying it to the domain of sport.

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  1. Institute for Sport Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Magdalenenstr. 27, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany

    Josef Wiemeyer

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  1. Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences, Technical University Munich, Munich, Bayern, Germany

    Martin Lames

  2. Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Danilov

  3. Moscow Centre for Advanced Sports Technology, Moscow, Russia

    Egor Timme

  4. Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

    Yuri Vassilevski

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Wiemeyer, J. (2020). Towards a Generic Framework for Serious Games. In: Lames, M., Danilov, A., Timme, E., Vassilevski, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport (IACSS 2019). IACSS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1028. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35048-2_23

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