Simulation and Gaming in the Network Society (Hardcover)

Part I: History, Theory and Methodology.- 1. The Origins of Board Games and Ancient Game Boards.- 2. Bending Time - Using Simulation to Warp Perceptions of Time For Learning Purposes.- 3. Eat the Cabbage, Kill the Wolf. When a Game Becomes a Useful Tool for the Simulation of Communication, Information and Decision Making Processes.- 4. Live-Action Roleplay; or the Performance of Realities.- 5. Participants' Perceptions of Gaming Simulation.- 6. Ecological Psychology - A Framework for Wargame Design.- Part II: Classroom Fields.- 8. Simulation and Gaming in Virtual Language Learning Literacy.- 9. Comparing Live-Action and Computer-Mediated Educational Games for Engineering Studies.- 10. Development of Gaming Material and Design Framework for Integrating Entrepreneurship Education into Problem-based Learning in Mathematics.- 11. Understanding the History of International Politics- A Retrospective and Repeated Type of Gaming and Simulation in the Classroom.- 12. Gamification in Education: "American Dream" Game.- Part III: Business Fields.- 13 Japanese CreativeServices and Its Competitive , Value Co-operation Process.- 14. Implementaion Model for the Gamification of Business Processes: A Study from the Field of Material Handling.- 15. ColPMan: A Serious Game for Practicing Collaborative Production Management.- 16. Massively Multiplayer Online Games as Information Systems Implications for Organizational Learning.- 17. An Experiment: An International Comparison of the Decision- Making Process Using a Business Game.- 18. Experiential Artefact for Cross- Cultural Learning in Business Games: First Results.- Part IV: Policy and Planning Fields.- 19. Urban Planning Games and Simulations: From Board Games to Artificial Environments.- 20. Between Game and Reality: Using Serious Games to Analyze Complex Interaction Processes in Air Traffic Management.- 21. Gaming Simulation Hybrids in the Railway Domain: How Games Impact the Volatility of Innovation Processes.- 22. A Feasbility Study of Land Readjustment Projects in Afganistan by Developing and Applying Gaming Simulation.- 23. Development of SASKE-NABLE: A Simulation Game Utilizing Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake.- 24. A Simulation of Economic Loss Impact and Recovery: A Case Study of Shima City Assuming Nankai Trough Earthquake.- Part V: Emerging Research Fields.- 25. Environmental Education by Playing an Industrial Waste Game: A Comparison between Chinese, Korean, and Japanese University Students.- 26. Even Unreliable Information Disclosure Makes People Cooperate in A Social Dilemma: Development of the "Industrial Waste Illegal Dumping game".- 27. Cormas, an Agent-Basedsimulation Platform for Coupling Human Decisions with Computerized Dynamics.- 28. The Fab Safe Game Preparing Fab Labs and Maker Spaces for Occupational Health and Safety.- 29. Knowledge Brokers in Action: A Game Based Approach for Strengthening Evidence- Based Policies.- 30. Simulation of an Organization as a Complex System: Agent - Based Modeling and a Gaming Experiment for Evolutionary Knowledge Management.