Serious games: mechanisms and effects

Foreword  Ben Sawyer   PART I. Serious Games: Explication of an Oxymoron  Introduction Ute Ritterfeld, Michael Cody & Peter Vorderer  Classifying serious games Rabindra Ratan & Ute Ritterfeld  Enjoyment of digital games: What makes them \"seriously\" fun? Hua Wang, Cuihua Shen & Ute Ritterfeld   Serious games and seriously fun games: Can they be one and the same? Cuihua Shen, Hua Wang & Ute Ritterfeld  PART II. Theories and Mechanisms  SERIOUS GAMES FOR LEARNING  Deep learning properties of good digital games: How far can they go? Paul Gee  Deep learning and emotion in serious games Arthur Graesser, Patrick Chipman, Frank Leeming & Suzanne Biedenbach  Psychological and communicological theories of learning and emotion underlying serious games Jennings Bryant & Wes Fondren  Designing Serious Games for Learning and Health in Informal and Formal Settings Debra Lieberman What do children learn from playing digital games? Fran S. Blumberg & Sabrina S. Ismailer  SERIOUS GAMES FOR DEVELOPMENT  The impact of serious games on childhood development John Sherry & Jayson Dibble  Designing serious games for children and adolescents: What developmental psychology can teach us Kaveri Subrahmanyam & Patricia Greenfield  Door to another me: Identity construction through digital game play Elly Konijn & Marije Nije Bijvank  Identity formation and emotion regulation in digital gaming Ute Ritterfeld  Serious games for girls? Considering gender in learning with digital games Yasmin Kafai  Girls as serious gamers: pitfalls and possibilities Jeroen Jansz & Mirjam Vosmeer  Serious games and social change: Why they (should) work Christoph Klimmt  Entertainment education through digital games Hua Wang & Arvind Singhal  PART IV. Methodological Challenges  Melding the power of serious games and embedded assessment to monitor and foster learning: flow and grow Valerie J. Shute, Matthew Ventura, Malcolm Bauer & Diego Zapata-Rivera  Making the implicit explicit. Embedded measurement in serious games Gary Bente & Johannes Breuer  Evaluating the potential of serious games: What can we learn from previous research on media effects and educational intervention? Marco Ennemoser  Improving methodology in serious games research with elaborated theory James H. Watt  Generalizability and validity in digital game research Mike Shapiro & Jorge Pena  Designing game research: addressing questions of validity Niklas Ravaja & Matias Kivikangas  PART V. Applications, Limitations, and Future Directions  Three-dimensional game environments for recovery from stroke Younbo Jung, Shih-Chih Yeh, Margaret McLaughlin, Albert A. Rizzo & Carolee Winstein  Reducing risky sexual decision-making in the virtual and in the real-world: Serious games, intelligent agents, and a SOLVE Approach Lynn C. Miller, John L. Christensen, Carlos G. Godoy, Paul Robert Appleby, Charisse Corsbie-Massay, and Stephen J. Read  From serious games to serious gaming Henry Jenkins, Brett Camper, Alex Chisholm, Neal Grigsby, Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Judy Perry. Philip Tan, Matthew Weise & Teo Chor Guan  Immersive serious games for large scale multiplayer dialogue and co-creation Stacey Spiegel & Rodney Hoinkes  The gaming dispositif. An analysis of serious games from a humanities perspective Joost Raessens