Learning from Computer Games
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The document discusses the relevance of computer gaming as a digital skill and its cognitive benefits, highlighting statistics from the UK showing substantial participation and spending in gaming. It explores the use of gaming technologies in training and recruitment, emphasizing effective cognitive training through games and the potential for gamification in various contexts. Key themes include the role of gaming in enhancing employability, training environments, and the training of artificial intelligence.
Learning from Computer Games
- 1. Learning from Computer Games Andy Fawkes Vedette Consulting Pixabay
- 2. Key Themes • Computer Gaming in Context • Gaming as a Digital Skill • Exploiting Gaming Technologies • Gamification of Training and Recruitment
- 4. In 2017, 32.4 million people played computer games in the UK, broadly 50:50 female/male Spending $4.2 billion, making the UK the 5th largest games market in the world UKIE
- 6. UK Children aged 12 to 15 spent 12.2 hours a week gaming in 2017 and 11 to 64 year-olds, 8.9 hours UKIE
- 8. Computer Games as a Digital Skill? Digital Skills are skills that range from: • enabling basic social interaction (communication skills, literacy, smartphone usage etc) to • enabling interaction with systems and services (e-commerce, e- government services etc) to • matching the needs of employers and which maximise employability Digital Skills for the UK Economy, UK Govt., 2016
- 9. Cognitive Benefits of Playing Computer Games • basic visual processes • attention and vigilance • executive functioning • job-related skills Peter Gray Ph.D. - Psychology Today (20/02/15)
- 10. “…a lot of the skills (we need), the ability to fuse data, to have situational awareness, to understand the environment, are skills which (gaming) helps build up…” Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier - 11 Jan 2018 The Military Times/Twitter
- 11. Grand Theft Auto V Police Roleplaying DoctorGTA
- 12. Games Engines in Training
- 13. Gaming Technology as a Training Environment Bohemia Interactive Simulations
- 14. Bohemia Interactive Simulations When to use Games in Training? • Games are effective for cognitive or “how to think” training • Games are not typically used to train motor skills, e.g. using a firearm
- 15. Realism…
- 16. Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) MMOGs offer a way of thinking about data and communities Persistency of Simulated World Persistency of Player Data Number of Players
- 17. Training AI in Games The Open Racing Car Simulator (TORCS) - GitHub
- 18. Gamification the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts Wikipedia
- 19. Gamification Examples • US Army’s America’s Army • eidesign Risk Management Training • Strava Athletes App
- 20. Summary • Consider Gaming as a Digital Skill • Benefits of Gaming Skills • Can show Enthusiasm for Work Area • Exploit Games Technology • Training Environments • Approach to Data • Training of AI • Consider Gamifying Training and Education