scholarly journals Praksisnær undervisning med simulering og rollespill

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-119
Author(s):  
Yngve Nordkvelle ◽  
Odd Rune Stalheim ◽  
Trine Fossland ◽  
Thomas de Lange ◽  
Line Wittek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Expensive Equipment ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Set Up ◽  
As If

Simulation in education involves creating situations that are similar to events, rituals and routines performed in the workplace – or in therapy, consultation, conflicts or similar situations. One recreates as many conditions as are necessary for the students to ‘live’ within what one imitates. Teachers instruct students and run the procedures as if they were ‘reality’. Some simulations, such as in nursing education, require expensive equipment and sophisticated use of ICT. Others can be set up as role-playing games with what one has at their disposal in terms of facilities. The article compares three cases of simulation that were closely examined in connection with a research project. The purpose was to find out if the students experienced this as good quality. The students’ ability to immerse themselves in the situation is of great importance for the benefit of the simulation. Most students find that the situations closely resemble real life and keep them engaged and alert. Teaching that explicitly tries to resemble reality is perceived as very educational.

scholarly journals A Cross-Genre Study of Online Gaming

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davinder Ghuman ◽  
Mark Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Online Gaming ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Person Shooter ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Achievement Levels

One key limitation with the contemporary online gaming research literature is that much of the published research has tended to examine only one genre of games (i.e., Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Games). Three relatively little studied online games are First Person Shooter (FPS) Games, Role Play Games (RPG), and Real Time Strategy (RTS) Games. Therefore, the current study examines player behaviour and characteristics in these three relatively under-researched online gaming genres. The study examines the differences between the three different game genres in terms of: (i) the demographic profile of players, (ii) the social interactions of players including the number and quality of friends, and how gaming related to real life friendship, and (iii) motivations to play specific game genres. The sample comprised 353 self-selected players. The RPG genre had the highest percentage of female players. The number of hours played per week varied significantly between the genres. RPG players played significantly longer hours than FPS or RTS players. In relation to playing motivation, achievement levels were highest for the FPS genre with RPG genre having the lowest achievement levels. RPG players had the highest immersion levels. RTS players were significantly less likely to report having made friends than players of the other two genres.

“This is like an RPG where you pick up friends along the way”

2021 ◽  
pp. 122-151
Author(s):  
Sylvia Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Oregon Trail ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Constructed Dialogue ◽  
The Oregon Trail

This chapter examines how Millennial friends in their late twenties appropriate texts from video games they have played to serve particular social interactive functions in their everyday face-to-face conversations. Speakers use references to the video games Papers, Please, The Oregon Trail, Minecraft, and Role Playing Games (RPGS) to shift the epistemic territories of conversations when they encounter interactional dilemmas. These epistemic shifts simultaneously rekey formerly problematic talk (on topics like rent, money, and injuries) to lighter, humorous talk, reframing these issues as being part of a lived video game experience. Overlapping game frames are laminated upon real-life frames and are strengthened by embedded frames containing constructed dialogue. This chapter contributes to understanding how epistemic shifts relying on intertextual ties can shift frames during interactional dilemmas in everyday conversation, which is ultimately conducive to group identity construction.

scholarly journals Players Imbuing Meaning: Co-creation of Challenges in a prototype MMO

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 50-75
Author(s):  
Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
The World ◽  
Rule System ◽  
Difficult Situations

This article discusses how components in a game world can carry meaning relevant to individual players. The discussion is grounded in work with a massively multi-player online (MMO) proto- type where players in guided play-tests created their own opponents that they battled in groups of three. The opponents are called Manifestations, and can be compared to the “boss monsters” that in adventure and role-playing games pose the greatest challenges in terms of tactical game play, or battle. When creating Manifestations players define how these shall behave in play, and what they say under different circumstances. The game play mechanics in the world is centred on emotions and social relations. One of the design goals in the creation of the prototype was to cater for a system where tactical game play can be closely tied to the potential narrative contents. The Manifestations players created in the play tests were of four main categories; reflec- tions of persons they had complicated relationships with in real life, difficult situations, abstract concepts, or purely fictional entities. In several cases players brought material into the game that had personal meaning to them. These meanings were developed further when players saw how their Manifestation behaved within the rule system of the world. For example, one player created a Manifestation of an anticipated exam, while another made a Manifestation called “Mother”. The Mother cast spells called “Focused Aggression” and “Cold Ripple of Fear”. It was able to perform acts called “Blame”, “Threaten”, and “Disagree”. The group experimented with tactical choices, while reasoning about the Mother’s potential motivations. They managed to overcome the Mother by alternating between giving each other resistance and casting spells, the winning stroke being a rapid series of spells called “Forgive”.

Sociaal contact in een MMORPG

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie De Vocht ◽  
Jan Van Looy ◽  
Cédric Courtois ◽  
Lieven De Marez
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
World Of Warcraft ◽  
The Third ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
The Social ◽  
Character Identification ◽  
Strong Competition

Social contact in a MMORPG. An exploratory study into the motivations of playing World of Warcraft from a uses & gratifications perspective. Social contact in a MMORPG. An exploratory study into the motivations of playing World of Warcraft from a uses & gratifications perspective. The results of a study on motivations for playing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG), c.q. World of Warcraft (WoW), on 1691 gamers have been described in this article. The research hypothesis states that the social contact in-game is the main motivation of playing WoW. After a factor analysis, eight motivations can be defined: ‘escapism’ (α= 0,694), ‘arousal’(α= 0,573), ‘social contact in WoW’ (α= 0,794), ‘challenge’ (α= 0,758), ‘immersion’ (α= 0,765), ‘skills’ (α= 0,907), ‘social contact in real life’ (α= 0,739), ‘strong competition’ (α= 0,771). ‘Social contact in WoW’ ends on the third place. Still, 89% of the respondents think that the multiplayer aspect is important. Two other dimensions have been found: ‘character identification’ (α= 0,749) and ‘character importance’ (α= 0,826). By distinguishing a group ‘High Character Involvement’ and ‘Low Character Involvement’ there have been found interesting differences with regard to the motivations.

The Demographics, Motivations, and Derived Experiences of Users of Massively Multi-User Online Graphical Environments

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Yee
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Meaningful Relationships ◽  
Age Range

Online survey data were collected from 30,000 users of Massively Multi-User Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) over a three year period to explore users' demographics, motivations, and derived experiences. Not only do MMORPGs appeal to a broad age range (Mage = 26.57, range = 11–68), but the appeal is strong (on average 22 hours of usage per week) across users of all ages (r = −.04). An exploratory factor analysis revealed a five factor model of user motivations—Achievement, Relationship, Immersion, Escapism, and Manipulation—illustrating the multifaceted appeal of these online environments. Male players were significantly more likely to be driven by the Achievement and Manipulation factors, while female players were significantly more likely to be driven by the Relationship factor. Also, the data indicated that users derived meaningful relationships and salient emotional experiences, as well as real-life leadership skills from these virtual environments. MMORPGs are not simply a pastime for teenagers, but a valuable research venue and platform where millions of users interact and collaborate using real-time 3D avatars on a daily basis.

scholarly journals Outside oneself in World of Warcraft: Gamers' perception of the racial self-other

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas D. Rowland ◽  
Amanda C. Barton
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
World Of Warcraft ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Racial Perceptions ◽  
Game Environment ◽  
The Way

The popularity of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) has created a unique, heavily populated virtual reality wherein player characters are explicitly differentiated by the physical characteristics of their avatars. To investigate the way real-life race perceptions influence these adopted player-character identities, we invited MMO players to participate in an online survey. In this study, we are particularly interested in overlap, or deviation, between real-life racial perceptions and the perception of fictional fantastic races (elves, dwarves). On the basis of the data collected, we found that whether players consciously associate themselves with their avatars or consciously dissociate themselves from their avatars, real-life racial tendencies unconsciously manifest through players' choices of their avatars and in their interactions with other players within the game environment.

scholarly journals THE USE OF GAMING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-105
Author(s):  
Лариса Максимук ◽  
Лилия Левонюк
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Developmental Potential ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Role Playing Games

The article deals with the problem of the formation of foreign language professional communicative competence of future specialists of non-linguistic profiles. The process of teaching a foreign language becomes interesting and creative thanks to game technologies that expand the range of topics for communication, make the process of foreign language communication more dynamic and expressive, and also give the possibility to create models of future professional activities of students and teach them how to act in certain real life situations. Role-playing and business games, which are one of the most dynamic methods of teaching a foreign language, are widely used in foreign language classes at non-linguistic specialties of universities. In role-playing games, personal interaction not limited to professional activity takes place, while in business games situations, which are close to the real future professional activity of students, are played. The use of role-playing and business games in the process of teaching foreign languages contributes to the formation of the cognitive interests of students, their conscious and motivated mastering of the target foreign language, and also contributes to the development of such qualities as independence, initiative, the ability to work in a team, the desire for self-education and self-improvement. Thus, gaming technologies have a great developmental potential and are an effective means of improving and modernizing the educational process at universities, professionalizing foreign language teaching for students of non-linguistic specialties, and forming their foreign language professional communicative competence.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Analysis of Online Gaming

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaheer Hussain ◽  
Mark D. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Online Gaming ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
The Social ◽  
Game Features ◽  
The Many

The popularity of Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) has risen dramatically over the last decade. Some gamers spend many hours a day in these virtual environments interacting with other gamers, completing quests, and forming social groups. The present study set out to explore the experiences and feelings of online gamers. The study comprised 71 interviews with online gamers (52 males and 19 females) from 11 different countries. Many themes emerged from the analyses of the interview transcripts including (i) engaging in social interaction, (ii) being part of a community, (iii) learning real-life skills, (iv) gaining in-game rewards, (v) playing never-ending games (vi) escaping from real life, (vii) playing longer than intended, and (viii) being obligated towards other gamers in-game. These findings specifically showed the many positives of online gaming (including the social interaction and the community aspects of belonging) as well as the in-game features within MMORPGs that in some cases can lead to excessive online gaming. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to previous qualitative and quantitative research in the area.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Analysis of Online Gaming

Gamification ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 296-313
Author(s):  
Zaheer Hussain ◽  
Mark D. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Online Gaming ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
The Social ◽  
Game Features ◽  
The Many

The popularity of Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) has risen dramatically over the last decade. Some gamers spend many hours a day in these virtual environments interacting with other gamers, completing quests, and forming social groups. The present study set out to explore the experiences and feelings of online gamers. The study comprised 71 interviews with online gamers (52 males and 19 females) from 11 different countries. Many themes emerged from the analyses of the interview transcripts including (i) engaging in social interaction, (ii) being part of a community, (iii) learning real-life skills, (iv) gaining in-game rewards, (v) playing never-ending games (vi) escaping from real life, (vii) playing longer than intended, and (viii) being obligated towards other gamers in-game. These findings specifically showed the many positives of online gaming (including the social interaction and the community aspects of belonging) as well as the in-game features within MMORPGs that in some cases can lead to excessive online gaming. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to previous qualitative and quantitative research in the area.

Prospects for the use of modern technologies to increase student involvement

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Iu. V. Amelina ◽  
R. V. Amelin
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
State University ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
It Education ◽  
Interaction Plot ◽  
Role Playing Game ◽  
Live Action

The article discusses the prospects of role-playing games in the educational process to increase students’ motivation and involvement, as well as the possibility of modern information technologies (primarily social networks) for constructing innovative forms of such games. The author’s format of the live-action role-playing game is presented. It was developed and tested at the Saratov State University. It involves the integration of numerous educational tasks into a single plot, within which each participant plays a role and communicates with other participants to complete tasks. The main interaction, plot development and group activities occur in dialogs, conversations and groups of social networks. This approach has shown its viability in teaching legal disciplines, and also has prospects for use in IT education.

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