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Player-Specific Conflict Handling Ontology

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This paper presents an ontology that leads the player of a serious game - regarding conflict handling - to the educative experience from which they will benefit the most. It provides a clearly defined tree of axioms that maps the player’s visually manifested affective cues and emotional stimuli from the serious game to conflict handling styles and proposes interventions. The importance of this ontology lies in the fact that it promotes natural interaction (non-invasive methods) and at the same time makes the game as player-specific as it can be for its educational goal. It is an ontology that can be adapted to different educational theories and serve various educational purposes.

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This research was co-financed by the FP7 ICT project SIREN (project no: 258453) and by the European Union (European Social Fund ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) Research Funding Program: “THALES. Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund”.

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    Charline Hondrou, Eleni Tsalapati, Amaryllis Raouzaiou, Kostas Karpouzis & Stefanos Kollias

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Hondrou, C., Tsalapati, E., Raouzaiou, A., Karpouzis, K., Kollias, S. (2014). Player-Specific Conflict Handling Ontology. In: De Gloria, A. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8605. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12157-4_24

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