Serious Games for Learning: A Quantitative Review of Literature

Ibarra M.J.; Ibañez V.; Silveira I.F.; Collazos C.A.; Wallner G.; Rauterberg M. · Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (2020) · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61814-8_13

Resumen

There exists a considerable amount of digital games that are described and published in the scientific literature. Among them, there are those considered as “serious games”, whose foremost goal differs from pure entertainment, being conceived mainly for training, capacity building, and education among other ends. Serious digital games for learning represent an important part of this whole set, and it is relevant to observe the actual state-of-the-art about the research in this field. In this sense, this paper presents a quantitative literature review on previous papers published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings or journals related to digital games for learning.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional del Altiplano; Universidad Nacional Micaela Bastidas de Apurímac