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- Purposeful games:
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These are games which have specific objectives besides entertainment, like providing new knowledge to the player on a specific topic or enhancing the usage of existing knowledge, or improving his/her motor skill, benefitting him/her directly, or using the player to serve some other purpose like generating data for machine learning using gameplay, e.g., a game may require a player to match products with customers and the player’s answers may be used to train a computer program to perform this task automatically in the future. Though the player matching the products and customers may be paid, she/he may not get any intellectual benefits or improve motor skills.
- Serious games:
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These are purposeful games intended to benefit the player directly by providing new knowledge or enhancing the usage of existing knowledge, or helping the player improve some motor skill, to change his/her...
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Mali, A.D. (2018). Public Health Education Via Computer Games. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_270-1
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