Transactions on Edutainment IX

1. Regular Papers

   1. A Patch-Based Data Reorganization Method for Coupling Large-Scale Simulations and Parallel Visualization

      • Li Xiao, Zhiwei Ai, Xiaolin Cao

      Pages 278-289

   2. The Boom and Bust and Boom of Educational Games

      • Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil

      Pages 290-296

2. Back Matter

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This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of edutainment, such as game-based learning and serious games, interactive storytelling, virtual learning environments, VR-based education, and related fields. It covers aspects from educational and game theories, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and systems design. This issue contains a special section on serious games with 8 outstanding contributions from the VS-Games 2011 conference; furthermore, there are 13 regular papers. These contributions clearly demonstrate the use of serious games and virtual worlds for edutainment applications and form a basis for further exploration and new ideas.

• 3D environments
• ageing population
• augmented reality
• digital interfaces
• educational games

• Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

  Zhigeng Pan

• Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, Yokohama-city, Japan

  Adrian David Cheok

• University of Education, Weingarten, Germany

  Wolfgang Müller

• Coventry University, UK

  Fotis Liarokapis

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