Simulation and Gaming in the Network Society

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

Toshiyuki Kaneda , Professor, Dr., Nagoya Institute of Technology, kaneda@nitech.ac.jp, Gokiso, Showa, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
Hidehiko Kanegae, Professor, Dr., Ritsumeikan University, hkanegae@SPS.ritsumei.ac.jp, Kitamachi 58Rits-DMUCH, Komatsubara, Kita-ku,Kyoto.6038341, Japan
Yusuke Toyoda, Associate Professor Dr., Ritsumeikan University, toyoday@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp, Ritsumeikan Univ. The Calle of Policy Sciences, 1 Nishinokyo-Suzaku cho, Nakagyo-ward, Kyoto 604-8415, Japan
Paola Rizzi, Professor Dr., University of Sassari, rizzi@uniss.it, University of Sassari, Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, Palazzo del Pou Salit, Piazza Duomo 6, 07041 Alghero (SS), Italia