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Advances in MASELTOV – Serious Games in a Mobile Ecology of Services for Social Inclusion and Empowerment of Recent Immigrants

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Immigration imposes a range of challenges with the risk of social exclusion. As part of a comprehensive suite of services for immigrants, the MASELTOV game seeks to provide both practical tools and innovative learning services via mobile devices, providing a readily usable resource for recent immigrants. We introduce advanced results, such as the game-based learning aspect in the frame of recommender services, and present the rationale behind its interaction design. Benefits and implications of mobile platforms and emergent data capture techniques for game-based learning are discussed, as are methods for putting engaging gameplay at the forefront of the experience whilst relying on rich data capture and analysis to provide effective learning solutions.

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  1. JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Institute DIGITAL, Graz, Austria

    Lucas Paletta & Patrick Luley

  2. Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Ian Dunwell, Sara de Freitas & Petros Lameras

  3. Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    Mark Gaved & Agnes Kukulska-Hulme

  4. CURE – Centre for Usability Research and Engineering, Vienna, Austria

    Jan Bobeth & Stephanie Deutsch

  5. Athens Institute of Technology, Athens, Greece

    Sofoklis Efremidis

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  1. Human Media Interaction/Creative Technology, University of Twente, Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB, Enschede, The Netherlands

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  2. School of Science and Technology, Department of Human System Interaction, Kwansei Gakuin University, Gakuen Sanda 2-1, 669-1337, Sanda, Japan

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Paletta, L. et al. (2013). Advances in MASELTOV – Serious Games in a Mobile Ecology of Services for Social Inclusion and Empowerment of Recent Immigrants. In: Reidsma, D., Katayose, H., Nijholt, A. (eds) Advances in Computer Entertainment. ACE 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8253. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03161-3_33

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