Games and Learning Alliance: 4th International Conference, GALA 2015, Rome, Italy, December 9-11, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

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Preface
The Games and Learning (GALA) Conference reached its fourth edition in the beau-
tiful setting of the cloister by Giuliano da Sangallo, at the Sapienza University in
Rome. The conference took place during December 9–11, 2015, in Rome, Italy, and
was organized by the Serious Games Society and The University of Genoa.
The conference provides the opportunity for meeting and discussing the main and
emergent topics within a community of experts on serious games, which is growing
year after year and involves academic, industrial developers, teachers, and corporate
decisionmakers.Participantsfromfourcontinentsgavetalksandorganizedworkshops
promoting knowledge share, technology transfer, and business development.
Thisyear,thenumberofsubmissionshassignificantlygrownalongwiththequality
of the talks and the papers.
It was an honor to have Dr. Marco Marsella (EC) and Prof. Jung Hyun Han
(University of Korea) as keynote speakers. Dr. Marsella, as representative of the
European Commission, presented the new opportunities of research in the field of
serious gaming and the new ICT calls in the framework of the H2020 program. Pro-
fessorJungHyunHanopenedtheseconddayoftheconferencepresentingthestatusof
research on serious games in Asia and introducing a new frontier of collaboration.
The conference featured five different sessions of paper presentation and four
workshops/tutorials.
The workshops/tutorials, held during the first day of the event, covered the fol-
lowing topics: games for health, games for mobility, pervasive gaming, and urban
mobility. The Games for Health Workshop was organized by the University of Milan
(LauraAnnaRipamontiandDarioMaggiorini)andbuiltupontheincreasingrelevance
ofappliedgamingapproachesandgamificationtechniquesforhealthandrehabilitation.
The Games for Mobility Workshop, held by the University of Genoa (Francesco
BellottiandRiccardoBerta),analyzedanddiscussedthelatestachievementsandtrends
inthefieldofseriousgamesandgamificationformobilityandintelligenttransportation
systems. The Pergamon Workshop, held by professor Jacqueline Cawtson
(DMLL-COVUNI), presented pervasive games as direct networking opportunities for
creatives, academics, entrepreneurs, and game developers to expand into the serious
games market. The Proto World Tutorial, held by Dr. Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge
(BIBA), provided hands-on experience with a simulation game environment to model
and plan urban mobility.
The paper sessions concerned such topics as: serious game design, tools, analytics
and decisions making, pedagogy, and health. Beside these, the conference hosted two
poster sessions collecting short papers related to serious games and their applications.
Asin2014,theselectedbestpapersoftheGALAConferencewillbepublishedina
dedicated special issue of the International Journal of Serious Games, the scientific
journal managed by the Serious Games Society, which is a great reference point for
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academiciansandpractitionerstopublishoriginalresearchworkonseriousgamesand
to be informed about the latest evolutions in the field.
The next GALA conference event will be held in Utrecht during December 5–7:
http://www.galaconf.org/2016/.
December 2015 Alessandro De Gloria
Games and Learning Alliance
4th International Conference, GALA 2015
Rome, December 9–11, 2015
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GALA2015wasorganizedbytheSeriousGamesSocietyandtheUniversityofGenoa.
General Chair
Alessandro De Gloria University of Genoa, Italy
Program Chairs
J. Michael Spector University of North Texas, USA
Remco C. Veltkamp University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Workshop and Tutorial Chairs
Games for Mobility
Francesco Bellotti University of Genoa, Italy
Florian Häusler Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Games for Health
Laura A. Ripamonti University of Milan, Italy
Dario Maggiorini University of Milan, Italy
Program Committee
Anissa All University of Gent, Belgium
Alessandra Antonaci ITD-CNR, Italy
Sylvester Arnab Coventry University, UK
Jon Arambarri Virtualwaregroup, Spain
Aida Azadegan The University of the West Scotland, UK
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge BIBA, Germany
Per Backlund Högskolan i Skövde, Sweden
Norman Badler University of Pennsylvania, USA
Sylvie Barma Université Laval, Canada
Francesco Bellotti University of Genoa, Italy
Riccardo Berta University of Genoa, Italy
Rafael Bidarra TU Delft, The Netherlands
Staffan Bjork Chalmers, Sweden
Rosa Bottino ITD-CNR, Italy
VIII Games andLearning Alliance ThirdInternational Conference
Maira Brandao Carvalho University of Genoa, Italy/Technical University of
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Sylvie Daniel University Laval, Canada
Kurt Debattista University of Warwick, UK
Shujie Deng University of Bournemouth, UK
Michael Derntl RWTH Aachen, Germany
Frank Dignum University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Miguel Encarnação University of Louisville, USA
Ester Fuoco University of Genoa, Italy
Christos Gatzidis Bournemouth University, UK
Manuel Gentile ITD-CNR, Italy
Marja Heuvel-Van den Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Panhuizen
Valerie Hill Texas Woman’s University, USA
Dirk Ifenthaler University of Mannheim, Italy
Carolina Islas Sedano University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Michael Kickmeier-Rust University of Graz, Austria
Ralph Klamma RWTH Aachen, Germany
Silvia Kober University of Graz, Austria
Milos Kravcik RWTH Aachen, Germany
Niki Lambropoulos Global Operations Division, Greece
Elisa Lavagnino University of Genoa, Italy
George Lepouras University of the Peloponnese, Greece
Theo Lim Heriot-Watt University, UK
Sandy Louchart Glasgow School of Art Digital Design Studio, UK
Dario Maggiorini University of Milan, Italy
Katerina Mania Technical University of Crete, Greece
Fabrizia Mantovani Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Michela Mortara IMATI-CNR, Italy
Rob Nadolski Open University, The Netherlands
Aniket Nagle ETHZ, Switzerland
Manuel Ninaus University of Graz, Austria
Carmen Padron ATOS, Spain
Lucia Pannese I-maginary, Italy
Magda Popescu Carol I National Defence University, Romania
Rui Prada INESC, Portugal
Marius Preda Institut National des Télécommunications, France
Elena Putti University of Genoa, Italy
Matthias Rauterberg TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Laura Anna Ripamonti University of Milan, Italy
Ion Roceanu Carol I National Defence University, Romania
Margarida Romero Université Laval, Canada
Esther Judith Schek Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Nicola Secco University of Genoa, Italy
Ioana Stanescu Carol I National Defence University, Romania
Kam Star Playgen, UK
Games andLearning Alliance ThirdInternational Conference IX
Erik van der Spek TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Herre van Oostendorp Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Peter Van Rosmalen Open University, The Netherlands
Remco Veltkamp Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Wim Westera Open University, The Netherlands
Antonie Wiedemann University of Genoa, Italy
Peter Wolf ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Local Arrangements Committee
Elisa Lavagnino University of Genoa, Italy
Publications Chair
Riccardo Berta University of Genoa, Italy
Communication Chair
Francesco Bellotti University of Genoa, Italy
Administrative Chair
Elisa Lavagnino University of Genoa, Italy
Antonie Wiedemann University of Genoa, Italy