Motivational Strategies to Support Engagement of Learners in Serious Games

Ramla Ghali, Maher Chaouachi, Lotfi Derbali, Claude Frasson

2014

Abstract

The use of Video Games as learning tool is becoming increasingly widespread. Indeed, these games are well known as educational games or serious games. They mainly aim at providing to the learner an interactive, motivational and educational environment at the same time. In order to better study the necessary characteristics for the development of an effective serious game (both motivational and educational), we evaluated the physiological responses of participants during their interaction with our serious game, called HeapMotiv. We essentially measured a physiological index of engagement through an EEG wifi headset and studied the evolution of this index with the different missions and motivational strategies of HeapMotiv. Focusing on the gaming aspects, the analysis of this engagement index behavior showed the significant impact of motivational strategies on skills acquisition and motivational experience. An agent-based architecture is proposed as a methodological basis for serious games conception.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ghali R., Chaouachi M., Derbali L. and Frasson C. (2014). Motivational Strategies to Support Engagement of Learners in Serious Games . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-015-4, pages 518-525. DOI: 10.5220/0004823305180525

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart14,
author={Ramla Ghali and Maher Chaouachi and Lotfi Derbali and Claude Frasson},
title={Motivational Strategies to Support Engagement of Learners in Serious Games},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2014},
pages={518-525},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004823305180525},
isbn={978-989-758-015-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Motivational Strategies to Support Engagement of Learners in Serious Games
SN - 978-989-758-015-4
AU - Ghali R.
AU - Chaouachi M.
AU - Derbali L.
AU - Frasson C.
PY - 2014
SP - 518
EP - 525
DO - 10.5220/0004823305180525