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Serious Games for Learning: A Quantitative Review of Literature

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There exists a considerable amount of digital games that are described and published in the scientific literature. Among them, there are those considered as “serious games”, whose foremost goal differs from pure entertainment, being conceived mainly for training, capacity building, and education among other ends. Serious digital games for learning represent an important part of this whole set, and it is relevant to observe the actual state-of-the-art about the research in this field. In this sense, this paper presents a quantitative literature review on previous papers published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings or journals related to digital games for learning.

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This project was financed by the Micaela Bastidas National University of Apurimac.

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  1. Micaela Bastidas National University of Apurímac, Abancay, Peru

    Manuel J. Ibarra

  2. National University of Altiplano Puno, Puno, Peru

    Vladimiro Ibañez

  3. Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil

    Ismar Frango Silveira

  4. University of Cauca, Popayán, Colombia

    Cesar A. Collazos

  5. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Günter Wallner & Matthias Rauterberg

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  2. Staffordshire University, Stoke-On-Trent, UK

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  3. Multimedia Communications Lab - KOM, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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  4. KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Södertälje, Stockholms Län, Sweden

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Ibarra, M.J., Ibañez, V., Silveira, I.F., Collazos, C.A., Wallner, G., Rauterberg, M. (2020). Serious Games for Learning: A Quantitative Review of Literature. In: Ma, M., Fletcher, B., Göbel, S., Baalsrud Hauge, J., Marsh, T. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12434. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61814-8_13

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