GaLA final review European Commission Information Society and Media WP1 Strategic coordination GaLA Game and Learning Alliance The European Network of Excellence on Serious Games WP1 – Strategic Coordination 1
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The European Network of Excellence on Serious Games
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Year 4 requirements and goals
• Strategic coordination along the three axes
– Research integration and harmonization
– Joint research activities
– Spreading of excellence
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GaLA identity and vision
• SGs as a reliable, usable tools for learning and training
• Favour the birth and uptake of a science of SG analysis, design, deployment and evaluation
• Proper design– Pedagogical principles– Embedded mechanics
• Assessment, feedback, guidance, collaboration and competition
– Adaptivity/personalization, advanced HCI
• Appropriate structure for management and tools for dissemination
• A supportive community of stakeholders
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GaLA objectives and main outcomes
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Strategic coord. actions (with WP assignments)
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Strategic coordination actions (Y4)
• Main goal:– Make the SG Society sustainable after the end of the EU funding
• Set up a portfolio of analysis/design/evaluation tools
• Consequential sub-goals:– A high-level academic journal (WP1)– Release SG analysis/design/evaluation frameworks (WP2, 3, 8)– JRAs on priority areas (WP 2)
• Analytics, mechanics, flow, re-usablity
– Guidelines for SG design and deployment (WP3, 6, 7)– Stakeholder communities (WP4, 5)– Business models and technology transfer (WP4)– Didactic tools (WP5)– Roadmap for R&D (WP1)– Complete transition to SGS (WP1, 8, 9)
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Strengthening collaboration
• Communication by the NoE coordinator, after review 3• Network analysis (WP8)
– Better use of protocols and prompt availability of minutes, to improve transparency and information flow
– Better ICT support (WP8)
• Coordination among JRAs– Frameworks for SG analysis, design and evaluation
• Increased joint publications and events (WP9)• Editorial organization and management
– IJSG workflow, GaLA Conf
• Final domain-specific thematic workshops in WP3
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Associate partnership
• 6 new associated partners• Total 36 associated partners• Total 67 GaLA partners
• Associate Partnership Survey (Spring 2014)– Main joint activities
• Journal, events, JRAs, SG studies, project proposals
– General satisfaction– Reported advantages
• Acquire wider perspective, reinforce research collab, participate to GaLA events
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Research integration
• Invited speeches and panels– Educon, Else, ECGBL, ASME IDETC/CIE, etc.
• Joint organization of workshops and tutorials– ICEC, JTEL, SGDA, Gamedays, IFIP SIG, I3M, IEEE SeGAH,
GG4H, etc.
• GaLA Conf, Bucharest, July 2014– Proceedings in print by Springer LNCS– Best papers in IJSG special issue in Jan 2015
• 2nd Summer School, Pori, July 2014
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Publication strategy
• Major goal shifted to the preparation of a journal dedicated to SGs
• However, also other activities, such as Special issues
• Journal publications• Workshops and tutorials organized at various
conferences• Reviewers of journal/confrerence papers
– Nurturing and growing/instructing a new field and a new community
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Journal Topic StatusEducation Technology and Society Journal
SGs and 21st Century skills Published in January 2014
Elsevier Entertainment Computing
Special issue of VS-Games 2012 Now published online and on paper in December 2014
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The Int.l Journal of Serious Games
• Open access golden paradigm– Guarantee a rapid diffusion and uptake of the journal.
• Editorial board constituted by 40 internationally known experts
• Triple blind review, coordinated by an editor• Publication plan
– Quarterly issues– 5 papers per issue + editorial + letters
• Indexing goals– Scopus in 3 years since the first issue– ISI in 5 years
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The Int.l Journal of Serious Games
• 4 issues published since jan 2014• Jan 2015, special issue GaLA Conf 2014• Jan 2016, special issue on SGs for mathematics
– K. Kiili, Tech. Univ. Tampere editor
• 85% papers from Eu, 15% North America (60% last issue, 0% first)• 45% papers from GALA, 55% outside (100% last issue, 0% first)• Avg. Daily sessions 33, 5.33 pages visited
– 12% Usa, 11% Ita, 8% Esp and Fra, 7% Ger
• Paper downloads– 611 avg per paper (first three issues)
• Databases– DBLP, EBSCO databases, Google Scholar, J-Gate– (under evaluation) ERIC, DOAJ, Inspec
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Spreading of excellence
• Relationships with EU projects– Collaboration in TEL
• eSG (deployment of SGs in higher education), SEGAN (co-organization of events), and Loginn and Cassandra (roadmap for SG research and market)
• Learning analytics (Lea’s Box, LACE) and creativity support (COLLAGE, Juxtalearn, MAGELLAN)
• Cloud computing and service oriented architectures (weSPOT, CELAR, TEAM)
– New application domains• smart cities (MyNeighbourhood), cultural heritage (i-treasures, V-
MUST), automotive (TEAM), security (LEILA), production/manufacturing (MSEE, Manuskills)
• New projects won in H2020 ICT-21-2014
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SG Society
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• An association to support R&D and deployment• Focus on the identification and strengthening of key
tools, main assets of the society portfolio
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The SGS Portfolio
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The SGS Portfolio
• Structured descriptions of SGs in a database
• SGs as a learning environment• Based on GALA SG ontology
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• Technical info• Components• Contexts of use• Analysis & assessment
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The SGS Portfolio
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LM-GM based analysis of Re:Mission
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• Evaluation oriented• Incl. models of user, context, goals
• Toolkit with a card game for depoyment
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Usable to reveal ways to optimize learning effects and user experience
A link between user experience, educational theory and gamedesign
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User SessionPhases
completedCurrent score Learning achievements
Achievements are updated and highlighted in real time
Service Oriented Architectures
Cloud computing
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Re-use of SG resources
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Coverage of the social media
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Next steps
• Growth of the IJSG and GALA Conf– Extension to extra-European countries
• Maintenance of the SG analysis/design– NSGMs -> xSGMs– LM-GM -> ATMSG
• New tools– Service catalogue -> service deployment & execution environment
• User studies– Field operational tests
• Main drivers– Publications– Third party citations
• Geographic coverage• Improve industrial engagement
– MarketPlace
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Year 1achievements
Year 2 achievements
Year 3 achievements
Year 4targets
Year 4achie
Definition of SG taxonomy, metrics and description template Started Completed Refined
Organization of frameworks for collaborative JRAs 1 3 6 6 6
SG studies based on the SG Description Template 34
18 (+ 5 not yet in KMS) 15 18
Organization of other JRAs 5 10+ 15 20 20
Nr. of PhD projects 32 43 47 4546
Nr. of MSc/BSc projects n.a. 52 38 40 45
Nr. of other EU projects in exchange relationship 5 29
22 FP710 LLP4 other prog.s 32
24 FP74 LLP7 other progr.s
Nr. of associate partners 4 28 32 36 36
Constitution of the SG Society No yes
Nr of SGS affiliated people 68 96 100 90
Nr of SGS affiliated organizations 43 75 70 58
Nr of SGS affiliated countries 12 18 24 24
Nr of 1st tier publications (WP1-specific) 1 1 0 2
Nr of other journal publications 1 5
Nr of other conference publications 1 0 0