Teachers
Ombretta Gaggi
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Padova,
gaggi[at]math.unipd.it
INF/01
Barbara Guidi
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Pisa,
guidi[at]di.unipi.it
INF/01

Aim
To acquire a broad understanding of the major technical issues and latest research findings about digital serious games and gamification. To acquire important concepts and characteristics concerning online social relationships in Social Media, and their impact on real-life, focusing on social networking addiction.

Syllabus
- Introduction to digital games
- Mobile, serious games and gamification
- Implementation and Performance measurements
- Introduction to Social Media
- Social Network Analysis
-- Social Network properties
-- Social Networking addictions

Introductory readings
- Tim Marsh, Serious games continuum: Between games for purpose and experiential environments for purpose, Entertainment Computing, volume 2,  issue 2, pages 61-68, 2011.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875952110000224
- Gabriel Barata, Sandra Gama, Joaquim Jorge, and Daniel Gonçalves. 2013. Improving participation and learning with gamification. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Gameful Design, Research, and Applications (Gamification '13). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 10–17. 

https://doi.org/10.1145/2583008.2583010

- McGlohon, M., Akoglu, L., & Faloutsos, C. (2011). Statistical properties of social networks. In Social network data analytics (pp. 17-42). Springer, Boston, MA. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4419-8462-3_2
- Griffiths, M. D., Kuss, D. J., & Demetrovics, Z. (2014). Social networking addiction: An overview of preliminary findings. In Behavioral addictions (pp. 119-141). Academic Press. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/208505278.pdf

Course requirements
None

Examination modality
None

Course material, enrollment and last minute notifications
Made available by the teacher at this Moodle address.

Schedule
5 February 2024, 10:00-12:00 (Room 1BC45)
6 February 2024, 10:00-12:00 (Room 1BC45)
7 February 2024, 10:00-12:00 (Room 1BC50)
15 February 2024, 14:00-16:00 (Room 1AD100)

Location
Rooms written in the schedule above and located at the Dept. of Mathematics, via Trieste 63, Padova

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