Denis, Guillaume (2006) Educational Video Games and Motivation: Application to Jazz Practice. PhD thesis Informatique temps réel, robotique et automatique, Centre de recherche en informatique, ENSMP.
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Abstract
This Ph.D. thesis introduces what we believe to be the first musical educational video game: Pads'n'Swing. Indeed, even though video game have been raising concerns for years, their integration in the very fabric of society and the ever increasing breadth of their use pave the way to positive applications such as serious games, which rely on players' interaction and social networking and the design and simulation of virtual worlds.
Building upon this approach, we suggest to put fun at the forefront of a motivation-based pedagogy, the motto of which would be to spur learners' interest by offering them the ability to use action schemas usually reserved to specialists. Our admittedly ambitious goal is to apply this idea to music: how far can we push the video game paradigm to make gamers eager to play and improvise jazz without being hindered by instrumental constraints?
To answer this question, our thesis work offers the following contributions: (1) a state-of-the-art overview of the nascent field of educational and serious games; (2) the definition of gameplay design best practices based on motivation theories; (3) the application of this methodology to the design of Pads'n'Swing; and (4) an experimental assessment of Pads'n'Swing, which exhibits the modalities of a specifically musical fun that can be experienced by most people.
| Item Type: | PhD Thesis (PhD) |
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| Thesis Supervisor: | Jouvelot, Pierre |
| Date: | December 2006 |
| Board of examiners: | Natkin, Stéphane and El Rhalibi, Abdennour and Pachet, François and Fenouillet, Fabien and Trémel, Laurent and Boell, Éric and Chahi, Éric |
| Ecole Doctorale: | ED 431 INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION, MODELISATION ET SIMULATION |
| Discipline: | Informatique temps réel, robotique et automatique |
| Collection (Fonds): | ENSMP ENSMP |
| Institution: | ENSMP |
| Department: | Centre de recherche en informatique |
| Subjects: | 2. Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies 7. Life Sciences and Engineering |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Video game, Education, Motivation, Music, Jazz, Serious games, Jeu vidéo, éducation, Motivation, Musique, Jazz, Serious games |
| ID Code: | 2167 |
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| Deposited By: | Guillaume Denis |
| Deposited On: | 23 March 2007 |
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