scholarly journals An Adaptive and Interactive Educational Game Platform for English Learning Enhancement using AI and Chatbot Techniques

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yichen Liu ◽  
Jonathan Sahagun ◽  
Yu Sun
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Real World ◽  
English Language ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Learning Enhancement ◽  
The Real ◽  
Natural Conversation ◽  
Free Moment ◽  
Game Platform

As our world becomes more globalized, learning new languages will be an essential skill to communicate across countries and cultures and as a means to create better opportunities for oneself [4]. This holds especially true for the English language [5]. Since the rise of smartphones, there have been many apps created to teach new languages such as Babbel and Duolingo that have made learning new languages cheap and approachable by allowing users to practice briefly whenever they have a free moment for. This is where we believe those apps fail. These apps do not capture the interest or attention of the user’s for long enough for them to meaningfully learn. Our approach is to make a video game that immerses our player in a world where they get to practice English verbally with NPCs and engage with them in scenarios they may encounter in the real world [6]. Our approach will include using chatbot AI to engage our users in realistic natural conversation while using speech to text technology such that our user will practice speaking English [7].

scholarly journals CREATING SENSATION OF LEARNING IN CLASSROOM: USING 'GATHER TOWN' PLATFORM VIDEO GAME-STYLE FOR VIRTUAL CLASSROOM

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Tira Nur Fitria
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Video Game ◽  
English Language ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
The Real ◽  
Virtual Meeting ◽  
Virtual Class ◽  
Virtual Classes ◽  
Result Analysis

Abstract: Virtual classes have now become commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. As time goes by, applications for virtual meetings continue to appear, one of which is Gather Town, which is now widely used and is a tight competitor to Zoom Meeting and Google Meet. Gather Town is a virtual meeting platform designed like a video game. This research is to implement the use of the 'Gather Town' game platform and to find out the student’s perception during the implementation and simulation of Gather Town application as an alternative platform in creating a sensation of English Language Learning (ELL) in the real classroom through virtual class during the pandemic COVID-19. This study uses descriptive qualitative research. The result analysis from observation and interview show that Gather Town has graphics similar to the Harvest Moon game, where students can play one character and can write their name on the top so that the lecturer can see which students are present. The room is designed similar to a classroom, where the lecturer's desk is at the front of the classroom. The virtual classroom also has chairs that are neatly lined up like classrooms in the real world. Then when doing group assignments, the student characters will gather at the same table as in a real classroom. They also carry out group work activities as if they were in the classroom. Each group sat in a circle and discussed with one another. The current game may be an alternative design in a virtual classroom. Abstrak: Kelas virtual kini menjadi hal biasa selama pandemi COVID-19. Seiring berjalannya waktu, aplikasi untuk virtual meeting terus bermunculan, salah satunya adalah Gather Town yang kini banyak digunakan dan menjadi pesaing ketat Zoom Meeting dan Google Meet. Gather Town adalah platform pertemuan virtual yang dirancang seperti gim video. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mensimulasikan penggunaan platform game 'Gather Town' dan mengetahui persepsi siswa selama simulasi aplikasi Gather Town sebagai platform alternatif dalam menciptakan sensasi Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris di kelas nyata melalui virtual. kelas selama pandemi COVID-19. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif deskriptif. Hasil analisis dari observasi dan wawancara menunjukkan bahwa Gather Town memiliki grafik yang mirip dengan game Harvest Moon, dimana mahasiswa dapat memainkan satu karakter dan dapat menuliskan namanya di bagian atas sehingga dosen dapat melihat mahasiswa mana yang hadir. Tidak hanya itu, ruangannya didesain mirip dengan ruang kelas, dimana meja dosen berada di bagian depan kelas. Ruang kelas virtual juga memiliki kursi yang berjejer rapi seperti ruang kelas di dunia nyata. Kemudian saat mengerjakan tugas kelompok, karakter siswa akan berkumpul di meja yang sama seperti di ruang kelas yang sebenarnya. Mereka juga melakukan kegiatan kerja kelompok seolah-olah berada di dalam kelas. Setiap kelompok duduk melingkar dan berdiskusi satu sama lain. Game saat ini dapat menjadi alternatif desain di kelas virtual.

scholarly journals Gamecloud - A Platform for Connecting Video Games

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne Parkkila ◽  
Kati Järvi ◽  
Timo Hynninen ◽  
Jouni Ikonen ◽  
Jari Porras
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Platform Architecture ◽  
Mobile Market ◽  
Digital Nature ◽  
Interactive Medium

The growing video game markets, especially the mobile market, have caused problems in terms of new game products being found by players. Cross-promotion and in-game advertising have been used to promote video games inside each other. However, the digital nature of video games as an interactive medium enables deeper collaboration between video games, and could be used in a more profound manner. We interviewed Finnish video game companies to understand if they were interested in creating deeper collaboration between their game products, and how such collaboration could take place. Based on the results, we built a platform called Gamecloud for connecting games together. We present the platform architecture and demonstrate it in use, with examples of connecting games with other games and connecting games with the real world, alongside an example of physical exercising.

scholarly journals Designing an augmented reality video game to assist stroke patients with independent rehabilitation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Regan Petrie
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Real World ◽  
Lower Limb ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Stroke Patients ◽  
The Real ◽  
Positive Results

<p>Early, intense practice of functional, repetitive rehabilitation interventions has shown positive results towards lower-limb recovery for stroke patients. However, long-term engagement in daily physical activity is necessary to maximise the physical and cognitive benefits of rehabilitation. The mundane, repetitive nature of traditional physiotherapy interventions and other personal, environmental and physical elements create barriers to participation. It is well documented that stroke patients engage in as little as 30% of their rehabilitation therapies. Digital gamified systems have shown positive results towards addressing these barriers of engagement in rehabilitation, but there is a lack of low-cost commercially available systems that are designed and personalised for home use. At the same time, emerging mixed reality technologies offer the ability to seamlessly integrate digital objects into the real world, generating an immersive, unique virtual world that leverages the physicality of the real world for a personalised, engaging experience.  This thesis explored how the design of an augmented reality exergame can facilitate engagement in independent lower-limb stroke rehabilitation. Our system converted prescribed exercises into active gameplay using commercially available augmented reality mobile technology. Such a system introduced an engaging, interactive alternative to existing mundane physiotherapy exercises.  The development of the system was based on a user-centered iterative design process. The involvement of health care professionals and stroke patients throughout each stage of the design and development process helped understand users’ needs, requirements and environment to refine the system and ensure its validity as a substitute for traditional rehabilitation interventions.  The final output was an augmented reality exergame that progressively facilitates sit-to-stand exercises by offering immersive interactions with digital exotic wildlife. We hypothesize that the immersive, active nature of a mobile, mixed reality exergame will increase engagement in independent task training for lower-limb rehabilitation.</p>

scholarly journals STUDENT CENTERED LEARNING IN ENGLISH ALIVE LEARNING THROUGH COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Winarsih Winarsih
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
English Language ◽  
Real Thing ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
The Real ◽  
Know How ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Communicative Approach ◽  
Skills Learning

Student Centered Learning ‘SCL’ approach has major pedagogical benefits to identify and know how the responsibility of SCL puts on learners, for their own learning by using variety of English language actively as medium of instruction to class subjects. It involves students in more decision-making processes, and learns English by doing to class subjects learning. They are 90% doing participating and the real thing during class while students practicing English for real-world skills. Learning becomes more active, it becomes more memorable: because it is personalized, and relevant to the students’ own lives and experiences, it brings English ‘alive’, and makes it relevant to the real world. In the process of learning, the more actively involved students are in their own learning, the more they are likely to remember what they learn. By using communicative approach, English again becomes more ‘real’ and part of the students’ lives.

scholarly journals Can Social Communication Skills for Children Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder Rehearsed Inside the Video Game Environment of Minecraft Generalize to the Real World?

10.2196/14369 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e14369
Author(s):  
Lee Cadieux ◽  
Mickey Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Real World ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
The Real ◽  
Social Communication Skills ◽  
Game Environment

In this paper, we outline opportunities within the video game environment for building skills applicable to real-world issues faced by some children. The game Minecraft is extremely popular and of particular interest to children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Although the game has been used by support communities to facilitate the social interaction of children and peer support for their parents, little has been done to examine how social skills developed within the game environment generalize to the real world. Social Craft aims to establish a framework in which key social communication skills would be rehearsed in-game with a view to facilitating their replication in a similarly contained real-world environment. Central to this approach is an understanding of the basic principles of behavior and the engagement of a sound methodology for the collection of data inside and outside the respective environments.

scholarly journals What does <i>Pokémon Go</i> teach us about geography?

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiwen Gong ◽  
Robert Hassink ◽  
Gunnar Maus
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Pokémon Go

Abstract. Pokémon Go, a highly popular, recently launched augmented-reality-based video game, fosters players' interaction with the real world. In this commentary we elaborate on how location-based games, such as Pokémon Go, have provided insights into the perception and understanding of space, as well as into their impact on patterns of mobility. In addition to that, we compare Pokémon Go with geocaching, another location-based game, to further elaborate on what Pokémon Go fails to do in terms of the practices of geographical exploration.

scholarly journals Can Social Communication Skills for Children Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder Rehearsed Inside the Video Game Environment of Minecraft Generalize to the Real World? (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Cadieux ◽  
Mickey Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Real World ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
The Real ◽  
Social Communication Skills ◽  
Game Environment

UNSTRUCTURED In this paper, we outline opportunities within the video game environment for building skills applicable to real-world issues faced by some children. The game Minecraft is extremely popular and of particular interest to children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Although the game has been used by support communities to facilitate the social interaction of children and peer support for their parents, little has been done to examine how social skills developed within the game environment generalize to the real world. Social Craft aims to establish a framework in which key social communication skills would be rehearsed in-game with a view to facilitating their replication in a similarly contained real-world environment. Central to this approach is an understanding of the basic principles of behavior and the engagement of a sound methodology for the collection of data inside and outside the respective environments.

Repetition and Ritual Logic in Video Games

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 499-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Gazzard ◽  
Alan Peacock
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Real World ◽  
Game Play ◽  
The Real ◽  
Third Person

By moving away from a model of ritual that focuses on magic and fantasy worlds, this article seeks to broaden the discussion of ritual actions, performances, and objects in first- and third-person video games. Ritual will be understood through the idea of a “ritual logic” that enables the wider associations of ritual in the virtual as opposed to the real world to be analyzed, and through the key element of repetition in game play. In part derived from the intertextuality of video game genres and associated popular culture artifacts such as films and novels, ritual logic contributes to the players’ knowledge and understanding of what ritual is and what ritual does in the game, and how ritual can be used to progress its narrative and play trajectories.

scholarly journals Functional business valuation – The theoretical foundation of argumentation value and its underlying function

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Manfred Jürgen Matschke ◽  
Gerrit Brösel ◽  
Patrick Thielmann
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
English Language ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
German Language ◽  
Business Valuation ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Core ◽  
First Time ◽  
A Company ◽  
Language Literature

Functional business valuation is the prevailing doctrine in the theoretically well-founded German-language literature, because the value of a company is primarily dependent on the purpose (function) of the valuation. This paper deals with one of the three main functions of business valuation: the argumentation function. This is where the argumentation value of the business is determined. The argumentation function is the function that has been the least theoretically developed and accepted to date, but is probably the most commonly used one in the real world. This article shows for the first time in the English-language literature the core ideas of the theoretical foundation of this function.

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