Multi-player Educational Video Game over Cloud to Stimulate Logical Reasoning of Children

Author

Villacis, Cesar ; Fuertes, Walter ; Bustamante, Andres ; Almachi, Daniel ; Procel, Carlos ; Fuertes, Susana ; Toulkeridis, Theofilos

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. de las Fuerzas Armadas-ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador

fYear

2014

fDate

1-3 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

137

Abstract

This research is about how to create an educational video game whose main purpose is to stimulate logical and spatial reasoning of children. For this goal, we have applied an incremental methodology in order to be able to produce a Massive Multiplayer Online Game. With the intention of incorporating operations necessary for cognitive development and simultaneously to control the mechanics of the video game, we applied Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents, and modern 3D technology approaches such as Unity 3D Game Engine and Photon Cloud. Validation of our solution has been performed by running several tests in public schools. The results demonstrate that this educational software stimulates the cognitive development of children.

Keywords

cloud computing; computer aided instruction; computer games; interactive video; multi-agent systems; video signal processing; 3D technology; artificial intelligence; children; cognitive development; educational software; intelligent agents; logical reasoning; massive multiplayer online game; multiplayer educational video game over cloud; photon cloud; public schools; spatial reasoning; unity 3D game engine; Artificial intelligence; Avatars; Cognition; Computers; Engines; Games; Three-dimensional displays; 3D; MMOG; artificial intelligence; cloud computing; cognitive development; educational video games;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT), 2014 IEEE/ACM 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1550-6525

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6143-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DS-RT.2014.24

Filename

6957185