Jeu et non jeu dans les serious games

Abstract

Claiming mix game and utilitarian goal, serious games tend to challenge traditional definitions of the game, free activity, separate and unproductive. For the researcher, they can be useful objects to query the boundary between what is a game and what is not a game. To clarify these issues, we submitted as part of an ethnomethodological investigation a set of serious games to a student audience. The results allow to understand the components of the playful perception. We note the great variability of the latter, its relationship with the experience and the usual practices of videogame players and the influence of multiple socio-cultural determinants.

Keywords

• serious games
• playful attitude
• playful perception
• boundary object
• ethnomethodology