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GaLA final review European Commission Information Society and

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WP1 Strategic coordination

GaLAGame and Learning Alliance

The European Network of Excellence on Serious Games

WP1 – Strategic Coordination

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Year 4 requirements and goals

• Strategic coordination along the three axes

– Research integration and harmonization

– Joint research activities

– Spreading of excellence

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GaLA identity and vision

• SGs as a reliable, usable tools for learning and training

• Favour the birth and uptake of a science of SG analysis, design, deployment and evaluation

• Proper design– Pedagogical principles– Embedded mechanics

• Assessment, feedback, guidance, collaboration and competition

– Adaptivity/personalization, advanced HCI

• Appropriate structure for management and tools for dissemination

• A supportive community of stakeholders

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GaLA objectives and main outcomes

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Strategic coord. actions (with WP assignments)

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Strategic coordination actions (Y4)

• Main goal:– Make the SG Society sustainable after the end of the EU funding

• Set up a portfolio of analysis/design/evaluation tools

• Consequential sub-goals:– A high-level academic journal (WP1)– Release SG analysis/design/evaluation frameworks (WP2, 3, 8)– JRAs on priority areas (WP 2)

• Analytics, mechanics, flow, re-usablity

– Guidelines for SG design and deployment (WP3, 6, 7)– Stakeholder communities (WP4, 5)– Business models and technology transfer (WP4)– Didactic tools (WP5)– Roadmap for R&D (WP1)– Complete transition to SGS (WP1, 8, 9)

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Strengthening collaboration

• Communication by the NoE coordinator, after review 3• Network analysis (WP8)

– Better use of protocols and prompt availability of minutes, to improve transparency and information flow

– Better ICT support (WP8)

• Coordination among JRAs– Frameworks for SG analysis, design and evaluation

• Increased joint publications and events (WP9)• Editorial organization and management

– IJSG workflow, GaLA Conf

• Final domain-specific thematic workshops in WP3

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Associate partnership

• 6 new associated partners• Total 36 associated partners• Total 67 GaLA partners

• Associate Partnership Survey (Spring 2014)– Main joint activities

• Journal, events, JRAs, SG studies, project proposals

– General satisfaction– Reported advantages

• Acquire wider perspective, reinforce research collab, participate to GaLA events

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Research integration

• Invited speeches and panels– Educon, Else, ECGBL, ASME IDETC/CIE, etc.

• Joint organization of workshops and tutorials– ICEC, JTEL, SGDA, Gamedays, IFIP SIG, I3M, IEEE SeGAH,

GG4H, etc.

• GaLA Conf, Bucharest, July 2014– Proceedings in print by Springer LNCS– Best papers in IJSG special issue in Jan 2015

• 2nd Summer School, Pori, July 2014

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Publication strategy

• Major goal shifted to the preparation of a journal dedicated to SGs

• However, also other activities, such as Special issues

• Journal publications• Workshops and tutorials organized at various

conferences• Reviewers of journal/confrerence papers

– Nurturing and growing/instructing a new field and a new community

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Journal Topic StatusEducation Technology and Society Journal

SGs and 21st Century skills Published in January 2014

Elsevier Entertainment Computing

Special issue of VS-Games 2012 Now published online and on paper in December 2014


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The Int.l Journal of Serious Games

• Open access golden paradigm– Guarantee a rapid diffusion and uptake of the journal.

• Editorial board constituted by 40 internationally known experts

• Triple blind review, coordinated by an editor• Publication plan

– Quarterly issues– 5 papers per issue + editorial + letters

• Indexing goals– Scopus in 3 years since the first issue– ISI in 5 years

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The Int.l Journal of Serious Games

• 4 issues published since jan 2014• Jan 2015, special issue GaLA Conf 2014• Jan 2016, special issue on SGs for mathematics

– K. Kiili, Tech. Univ. Tampere editor

• 85% papers from Eu, 15% North America (60% last issue, 0% first)• 45% papers from GALA, 55% outside (100% last issue, 0% first)• Avg. Daily sessions 33, 5.33 pages visited

– 12% Usa, 11% Ita, 8% Esp and Fra, 7% Ger

• Paper downloads– 611 avg per paper (first three issues)

• Databases– DBLP, EBSCO databases, Google Scholar, J-Gate– (under evaluation) ERIC, DOAJ, Inspec

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Spreading of excellence

• Relationships with EU projects– Collaboration in TEL

• eSG (deployment of SGs in higher education), SEGAN (co-organization of events), and Loginn and Cassandra (roadmap for SG research and market)

• Learning analytics (Lea’s Box, LACE) and creativity support (COLLAGE, Juxtalearn, MAGELLAN)

• Cloud computing and service oriented architectures (weSPOT, CELAR, TEAM)

– New application domains• smart cities (MyNeighbourhood), cultural heritage (i-treasures, V-

MUST), automotive (TEAM), security (LEILA), production/manufacturing (MSEE, Manuskills)

• New projects won in H2020 ICT-21-2014

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SG Society

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• An association to support R&D and deployment• Focus on the identification and strengthening of key

tools, main assets of the society portfolio


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The SGS Portfolio

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The SGS Portfolio

• Structured descriptions of SGs in a database

• SGs as a learning environment• Based on GALA SG ontology

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• Technical info• Components• Contexts of use• Analysis & assessment


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The SGS Portfolio

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LM-GM based analysis of Re:Mission


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The SGS Portfolio

• Evaluation oriented• Incl. models of user, context, goals

• Toolkit with a card game for depoyment

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The SGS portfolio

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Usable to reveal ways to optimize learning effects and user experience

A link between user experience, educational theory and gamedesign


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The SGS Portfolio

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User SessionPhases

completedCurrent score Learning achievements

Achievements are updated and highlighted in real time

Service Oriented Architectures

Cloud computing


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The SGS portfolio

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Re-use of SG resources


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The SGS Portfolio

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The SGS Portfolio

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Coverage of the social media

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Next steps

• Growth of the IJSG and GALA Conf– Extension to extra-European countries

• Maintenance of the SG analysis/design– NSGMs -> xSGMs– LM-GM -> ATMSG

• New tools– Service catalogue -> service deployment & execution environment

• User studies– Field operational tests

• Main drivers– Publications– Third party citations

• Geographic coverage• Improve industrial engagement

– MarketPlace

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WP1 performance metrics

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Year 1achievements

Year 2 achievements

Year 3 achievements

Year 4targets

Year 4achie

Definition of SG taxonomy, metrics and description template Started Completed Refined

Organization of frameworks for collaborative JRAs 1 3 6 6 6

SG studies based on the SG Description Template 34

18 (+ 5 not yet in KMS) 15 18

Organization of other JRAs 5 10+ 15 20 20

Nr. of PhD projects 32 43 47 4546

Nr. of MSc/BSc projects n.a. 52 38 40 45

Nr. of other EU projects in exchange relationship 5 29

22 FP710 LLP4 other prog.s 32

24 FP74 LLP7 other progr.s

Nr. of associate partners 4 28 32 36 36

Constitution of the SG Society No yes

Nr of SGS affiliated people 68 96 100 90

Nr of SGS affiliated organizations 43 75 70 58

Nr of SGS affiliated countries 12 18 24 24

Nr of 1st tier publications (WP1-specific) 1 1 0 2

Nr of other journal publications 1 5

Nr of other conference publications 1 0 0

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