Serious and fun games: Introduction to the special thematic session

Abstract

Serious and Fun Games Special Thematic Session aims to bring together academic scientists, researchers, Ph.D. students and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Game-Based Learning and Serious Games helping people with disabilities and people who need special education. The target groups of these Serious Games are blind people or people with low vision, hearing impairment, motion challenges, learning problems or children with special diets for example type 1 diabetes, or food allergy. It also provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations and trends. Moreover, to share and concern practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted in the fields of Game-Based Learning and Serious Games. High-quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of Game-Based Learning and Serious Games were cordially invited for presentation at the STS.