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Transactions on Edutainment II (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
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Transactions on Edutainment II (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5660
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With great pleasure we present the second volume of the new journal
Trans- tions on Edutainment. This journal, part of the Springer
series Lecture Notes in
ComputerScience,isdevotedtoresearchanddevelopmentinthe?eldofeduta-
ment. Edutainment, also known as educational entertainment or
entertainme- education, denotes all forms of entertainment designed
to educate as well as to provide fun. This approach is motivated by
the increasing demands on indivi-
alsforlife-longlearningandtheneedtointegratee?ectivelearningopportunities
throughout life. As such, edutainment has attracted increasing
interest in the last few years. The ?rst ?ve articles of this issue
represent a selection of outstanding cont-
butionsfromGDTW2008,the6thInternationalConferenceinGameDesignand
Technology held in the UK, in November 2008. The main aims of the
workshop are: (1) To provide a forum to discuss state-of-the-art
games design and current and future games technology with the
specialists. (2) To enable academics and
researchersincomputergametechnologyandcomputerentertainmenttopresent
their work during the research sessions, and to seek opportunities
for collabo- tion with industry and for academic researchpartners.
(3) To facilitate relati- ships and collaboration between academics
promoting computer games techn- ogy courses, the UK games industry
and supporting organizations. These ?ve papers cover mainly the
topic of edutainment platforms or methodology: "Co- dinating
Heterogeneous Game-Based Learning Approaches in Online Learning
Environments," "Networking Middleware and Online-Deployment
Mechanisms for Java-Based Games," "A Testbed for P2P Gaming Using
Time Warp, How to Steer Characters in Group Games," and "Time-Based
Personalized Mobile Game Downloading. " The next six articles
represent a selection of outstanding contributions from Cyberworlds
2008 held in Hangzhou, China, in September 2008.
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