Share Paper: Learning in Arcade Video Games: Elliptical Mechanisms and Transferability to Education

  1. Sébastien Hock-koon, University of Paris-Nord UFR-LSHS, France
Thursday, March 8 3:25-3:45 PM Capitol C

Abstract: Digital game-based learning proponents have finally convinced educational institutions of video games’ teaching potential. However, Linderoth (2010), without negating it, criticizes the way researchers link a successful action in the game and learning. In my Ph.D research, I attempt to understand how “great video games” (Kunkel 2003) may take “a minute to learn and a lifetime to master.” As a part of this research, I trained myself for six months to perform a one-credit run on the Alien Vs. Predator arcade game. Improving oneself on an arcade game implies several levels of understanding; in order to learn each level, one ...