Playing computer games is a predominantly emotional than rational process. Video games
with affect-based adaptation measure player's behavior signals and recognize player's …

There are currently a number of models, frameworks and methodologies for serious games
analysis and design that provide useful interpretations of the possibilities and limitations …

Personalization and adaptivity can promote motivated usage, increased user acceptance,
and user identification in serious games. This applies to heterogeneous user groups in …

The COVID-19 pandemic caused children to distance learn at home, but with technical and
pedagogic difficulties. Digital learning games offer effective tools for pedagogic difficulties …

Abstract Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a set of practices for architectural design of
software that exploits services as loosely coupled components orchestrated to deliver …

Computing machinery allows the creation of intelligent, personalized, adaptive systems and
programs that consider the characteristics, interests, and needs of individual users and user …

In every digital game, players both act in and interact with the game. They use the options of
game mechanics to achieve goals. For example, players move a controller to steer the …

Summary Digital Serious Games (SGs) are gaining increasing importance as educational
and training tools. However, there is still a long way to make them widely deployed. On the …

Digital games in general require fine motor skills, ie, operating the computer mouse, the
keyboard, the touch-screen, or a joystick. With the development of new gaming interfaces …

Computers are a fundamentally important tool in sport science research, sports performance
analysis and, increasingly, in coaching and education programmes in sport. This book …