scholarly journals The time spent on board games pays off : links between board game playing and competency motivation

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
András Ferenc Dukán ◽  
Katalin Fried ◽  
Csaba Szabó
Keyword(s):  
Game Playing ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Board Games

Board Games AI

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-155
Author(s):  
Tad Gonsalves
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Hard Problem ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Evaluation Function ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Game Tree ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Np Hard Problem ◽  
Alpha Beta

The classical area of AI application is the board games. This chapter introduces the two most prominent AI approaches used in developing board game agents – the MinMax algorithm and Machine Learning and explains their usage in playing games like tic-tac-toe, checkers, othello, chess, go, etc., against human opponents. The game tree is essentially a directed graph, where the nodes represent the positions in the game and the edges the moves. Even a simple board game like tic-tac toe (noughts and crosses) has as many as 255,168 leaf nodes in the game tree. Traversing the complete game tree becomes an NP-hard problem. Alpha-beta pruning is used to estimate the short-cuts through the game tree. The board game strategy depends on the evaluation function, which is a heuristic indicating how good the player's current move is in winning the game. Machine learning algorithms try to evolve or learn the agent's game playing strategy based on the evaluation function.

scholarly journals Primary school teachers’ attitude to board-games and their board-game playing practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-187
Author(s):  
Ana JUHÁSZ
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Elementary School Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Board Game ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Problem Solving Competency

Abstract: The usage of games in the process of teaching and learning is always advantageous, because children prefer to learn playfully. Board-games are particularly enjoyable for children. They do not learn consciously, but they enjoy playing together with their parents and siblings, because board-games bring together both family and friends. Playing board-games is not only a joyful activity, it also develops different skills of the player, as communication skills, strategy creating and problem solving competency, cooperation, etc. Nowadays there are many boardgames on sale, active board-game playing communities organize events, and a culture of playing board-games is developing. Thus integrating board-games in educational activities seems to be a natural process to follow. But this integration has many obstacles, as time and curriculum constrains, the lack of methodological knowledge of the teachers, inadequate choose of educational board-games for some subjects, etc. The aim of this research is to study primary school teachers’ attitude to playing board-games and their board-game playing practice. The results show that majority of the participating elementary school teachers love playing boardgames, almost half of them also play board games in their private life. Most of them bring these games to the classroom as well. Teachers love these games, because they are fun, teach logical thinking, make students creative, help them to relax, are team builders, motivate students to learn, get used to speed, develop attention, teach strategies, and are childhood favorites.

Board Games AI

2019 ◽  
pp. 68-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tad Gonsalves
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Hard Problem ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Evaluation Function ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Game Tree ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Np Hard Problem ◽  
Alpha Beta

The classical area of AI application is the board game. This chapter introduces the two most prominent AI approaches used in developing board game agents—the MinMax algorithm and machine learning—and explains their usage in playing games like Tic-Tac-Toe, Checkers, Othello, Chess, Go, etc. against human opponents. The game tree is essentially a directed graph, where the nodes represent the positions in the game and the edges the moves. Even a simple board game like Tic-Tac Toe (naughts and crosses) has as many as 255,168 leaf nodes in the game tree. Traversing the complete game tree becomes an NP-hard problem. Alpha-beta pruning is used to estimate the short-cuts through the game tree. The board game strategy depends on the evaluation function, which is a heuristic indicating how good the player's current move is in winning the game. Machine learning algorithms try to evolve or learn the agent's game playing strategy based on the evaluation function.

scholarly journals Influencing Attitudes and Preferences Toward Climate Change using a Multi-Player, Transportation Themed Board Game

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Xiaoyi Kjorven
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Life Choices ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Effective Combination ◽  
Collective Action Problems ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Game Board

Traditional tabletop board games have soared in popularity in recent years, and used often as tools for education and entertainment. Board games are an especially engaging format for studying themes of collective-action problem solving. This study looks at one of the most complex collective-action problems of this generation, climate change, and evaluates how individual attitudes and preferences may be altered by playing a board game specifically designed to influence how people relate to an issue. The board game Wheels was introduced and taught to 18 participants, who engaged in five separate playtesting sessions where observation, survey and interview data were collected. The study evaluates participants' attitudes and preferences toward certain transportation and climate change topics before and after playing the game. The game showed promise in changing players' preferences toward certain modes of transportation - increasing preferences toward electric vehicles and cycling, and decreasing preference towards gas powered cars. These findings indicate that the effective combination of select climate change game mechanics in a highly personalized theme may produce an engaging and entertaining experience that has the potential to transcend the game board and impact players' outlook upon real life choices.

Decoupling Aspects in Board Game Modeling

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fulvio Frapolli ◽  
Amos Brocco ◽  
Apostolos Malatras ◽  
Béat Hirsbrunner
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Representation ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Game Session ◽  
Game Rule ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Existing research on computer enhanced board games is mainly focused on user interaction issues and look-and-feel, however, this overlooks the flexibility of traditional board games when it comes to game rule handling. In this respect, the authors argue that successful game designs need to exploit the advantages of the digital world as well as retaining such flexibility. To achieve this goal, both the rules of the game and the graphical representation should be simple to define at the design stage, and easy to change before or even during a game session. For that reason, the authors propose a framework allowing the implementation of all aspects of a board game in a fully flexible and decoupled way. This paper will describe the Flexiblerules approach, which combines both a model driven and an aspect oriented design of computer enhanced board games. The benefits of this approach are discussed and illustrated in the case of three different board games.

scholarly journals P061: Post-market surveillance of a serious board game: the GridlockED experience

CJEM ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (S1) ◽  
pp. S85
Author(s):  
S. Hale ◽  
T. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Patient Flow ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Post Market ◽  
Disaster Scenario ◽  
Main Barrier

Introduction: In 2016, a team at McMaster began developing GridlockED, an educational (or “serious”) board game designed to teach medical learners about patient flow in the emergency department. As serious board games are a relatively new phenomenon in medical education, there is little data on how marketed games are actually used once received by end-users. In this study our goal was to better understand the demographics and game usage for purchasers of the GridlockED board game, which will inform the further improvement or expansion of the game. Methods: Individuals who expressed interest in purchasing gridlockED via our online storefront were sent an anonymous online survey via Google Form. The survey collected demographic and qualitative data with a focus on the respondent's role in medicine, how they have used GridlockED, who they have played GridlockED with, and what changes or additions to GridlockED they would like to see. We also asked about changes for a potential mass-market version of the game targeted towards non-medical individuals. Individuals who did not purchase the game were asked about their barriers to purchase. We received an exemption for this study from our institutional review board. Results: 42 responses (out of 300 individuals on our mailing list, 14% response rate) were collected. Responding purchasers were from 16 different roles in healthcare and 11 different countries. The top 5 roles were: EM trainee, Community EM MD, Academic EM MD, Physicians from other specialties, and EM program director. The majority of respondents were Canadian (38%), with America (21%), New Zealand (10%), and Turkey (7%) the only other countries to have more than 2 respondents. 50% reported having played the game, with the most common use cases being for fun (76%), for teaching trainees (33%) or training with colleagues (19%). For those who did not purchase, price was the largest barrier (81%). 50% of respondents expressed interest in a disaster scenario expansion pack, with 33% interested in set lesson plans. Conclusion: GridlockED attracted interest from a wide range of medical professionals, both in terms or role and location. Users mainly reported using the game for fun, with fewer users using the game for teaching/training purposes. The main barrier to purchase was the game's price.

scholarly journals Solving Sequential Text Classification as Board-Game Playing

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (05) ◽  
pp. 8640-8648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Qian ◽  
Fuli Feng ◽  
Lijie Wen ◽  
Zhenpeng Chen ◽  
Li Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Text Classification ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Reading Order ◽  
Game State ◽  
Right Order ◽  
Novel Model ◽  
Label Sequence

Sequential Text Classification (STC) aims to classify a sequence of text fragments (e.g., words in a sentence or sentences in a document) into a sequence of labels. In addition to the intra-fragment text contents, considering the inter-fragment context dependencies is also important for STC. Previous sequence labeling approaches largely generate a sequence of labels in left-to-right reading order. However, the need for context information in making decisions varies across different fragments and is not strictly organized in a left-to-right order. Therefore, it is appealing to label the fragments that need less consideration of context information first before labeling the fragments that need more. In this paper, we propose a novel model that labels a sequence of fragments in jumping order. Specifically, we devise a dedicated board-game to develop a correspondence between solving STC and board-game playing. By defining proper game rules and devising a game state evaluator in which context clues are injected, at each round, each player is effectively pushed to find the optimal move without position restrictions via considering the current game state, which corresponds to producing a label for an unlabeled fragment jumpily with the consideration of the contexts clues. The final game-end state is viewed as the optimal label sequence. Extensive results on three representative datasets show that the proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art methods with statistical significance.

Measuring User Experience in Multiplayer Board Games

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 623-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Barbara
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Board Games ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Experience Questionnaire

Comparison of user experience between multiplayer digital games and board games is largely unexplored in the literature, with no instrument found to suitably measure user experience across game formats. This study explores the use of the Social Presence module of the Games Experience Questionnaire to measure user experience in a multiplayer board game involving 12 participants across 3 separate sessions. Scale analysis and correlation with semistructured interviews held with the participants suggest that the instrument is reliable and valid and can thus be used for measurement and comparison of user experience across game formats. The Games Experience Questionnaire can therefore be used to scale-up board game research by diminishing reliance on interviews as well as to assist in the choice between digital and nondigital implementation of gameplay forming part of an overarching story, such as in transmedial productions.

Did the Anglo-Saxons Play Games of Chance? Some Thoughts on Old English Board Games

2006 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 330-345
Author(s):  
Ian Payne
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Games Of Chance ◽  
First Millennium

H J R Murray, the distinguished board games historian, stated categorically in 1952 that the popular Germanic game of tæfl (more specifically referred to in a ninth- to twelfth-century Norse context as hnefatafl), a game entirely of skill, was the only board game played in Anglo-Saxon England. But Old English literary evidence might pose a challenge to Murray's thesis, and could be taken to suggest that the English also played games of chance (perhaps even tabula, an ancestor of backgammon) in the first millennium AD.

scholarly journals Meningkatkan Kemampuan Speaking Siswa dengan Media Board game di MTs Nahdlatun Nasyiin Kadur Pamekasan

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-100
Author(s):  
Muhammad Darrin Zuhri ◽  
Kusyairi Kusyairi
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Class Actions ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
Game Board ◽  
Speaking Skills

Abstrak: Pengajaran Speaking (berbicara) sangatlah penting. Kenyataannya, banyak siswa mendapatkan masalah untuk berbicara bahasa Inggris dan mendapatkan motivasi belajar yang rendah. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji apakah board game dapat meningkatkan keterampilan berbicara siswa di kelas VIII MTs Nahdlatun Nasyin Kadur pamekasan dan untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi meningkatkan keterampilan berbicara. Penelitian ini diklasifikasikan ke dalam tindakan kelas penelitian. Data dikumpulkan melalui penilaian, observasi, dan wawancara. Temuan penelitian ini telah menjawab pertanyaan penelitian, bahwa menggunakan permainan papan game (board games) dapat meningkatkan keterampilan berbicara siswadi MTs Nahdlatun Nasyiin Kadur Pamekasan. Board game (papan permainan) adalah bentuk permainan yang sangat menyenangkan sehingga bisa memberikan tanmbahan semangat untuk bisa berbicara bahasa Inggris dengan mudah dan cepat.  Teknik ini sangat berguna untuk meningkatkan siswa keterampilan berbicara dan motivasi belajar.   Kata kunci: Keterampilan, berbicara, papan permainan   Abstract: Teaching Speaking is very important. In fact, many students have problems speaking English and getting low learning motivation. The purpose of this study is to test whether board games can improve the speaking skills of students in class VIII of MTs Nahdlatun Nasyin Kadur village and to find out the factors that influence improving speaking skills. This study was classified into research class actions. Data is collected through assessment, observation, and interviews. The findings of this study have answered the research question, that using board games can improve the speaking skills of students at MTs Nahdlatun Nasyiin Kadur Pamekasan. A board game is a form of play that is very fun so it can provide a lot of enthusiasm to be able to speak English easily and quickly. This technique is very useful for improving students' speaking skills and learning motivation.   Keywords: Skills, Speaking, Board game

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