30 results about "Games for learning" patented technology

Systems and methods are provided that enable young children (e.g., toddlers to pre-kindergarten aged children) and/or persons with disabilities to easily play, and effectively learn from, interactive, educational, and entertaining games. The edutainment game may be a series of instructions stored on a digital storage medium for use with a game system. The young child or person with a disability may play the game using a wireless, handheld controller that is easily graspable, maneuverable, and manipulatable, and the young child or person with a disability may play the game alone or with supervision from another person. The edutainment games may include one or more learning tools (or learning games), emphasizing skills such as, for example, color, shape, and/or sound recognition; puzzle-solving; navigation; number recognition, counting, and/or ordering; alphabet and reading/writing; etc. These skills may be emphasized individually or in various combinations.

A method for playing computer games whereas before the game starts, visual percept is present and the player learns the rules and options that the game provides, and during the game the screen is blank, i.e., no visual stimuli are presented. Players' actions are based on other modalities except vision. Playing the game might require all or part of the modalities of auditory and visual mental imagery percept, memory, hand movements, speech, physiological measurements and prediction of hand motor coordination.

Methods and devices for assessing a user's skill level in a field of expertise based on game play data generated by that user. In one embodiment, a user plays a game which simulates an auditing interview. The user selects predefined questions to ask a computer controlled interviewee and a game log of the questions asked, reactions to the questions, and other data is created. The game log is then sent to an assessment system with multiple assessment modules. Each assessment module analyzes the game play data for specific patterns in the questions being asked. Patterns such as the sequencing of questions, the type and frequency of questions asked, and whether specific questions are asked may then be tracked and assessed. Based on the results of the various assessment analyses, a final metric indicative of the user's skill level is calculated. Advice and tips for the user to increase his skill level may also be provided based on what patterns were found in the game play data.

The field of the invention relates to systems and methods that enable online learning in a game setting combined with community forum support and real world practice. In an embodiment, the system includes an online learning server system coupled to a public network and accessible to one or more users. The online learning server system is configured to retrieve a user's data in association with an educational game, determine at least one lesson, challenge, or mini-game, and provide the at least one lesson, challenge, or mini-game for playing. When the user unlocks a lesson or level in the game, the system unlocks the associated lesson or level in a forum associated with the game, and promotes the user to participate in the forum. At the completion of the learning game, the online learning server system calculates progress and level of the user, updates, and stores the user's data.

The present invention relates to a math manipulative educational learning game in which a plurality of rods are provided for use in various manipulative games designed to teach rudimentary arithmetic skills. In the preferred embodiment, the rods are of various lengths and/or volumes, with the shortest length comprising a unit length, and other rods being formed in integral multiples of the unit length. Various games are disclosed in which a child is encouraged to manipulate the rods in various ways and in order to learn various arithmetic lessons. For example, in one game a Game Master selects any of the rods except the rod having unit length and places it upon a game playing surface. Thereafter, the Partner must select a plurality of rods whose combined lengths equal the length of the rod played by the Game Master. These rods are laid end-to-end along side the rod played by the Game Master in order to demonstrate their length equality. The Game Master then selects another rod other than the rod of unit length and lays the second rod end-to-end with the first rod which the Game Master played. The Partner is again required to select a plurality of rods to whose combined lengths, when placed end-to-end with the rods already played by the Partner, equal the length of the rods played by the Game Master. The play continues in this manner until no more moves may be made from the selection of rods remaining. Other manipulative games are also disclosed.

An apparatus for simulating the experience of a sports official is disclosed. The apparatus includes a medium for displaying game content; a first input means for receiving a first input signal, wherein displayed game content is temporarily stopped or paused when a first input signal is received; and a timer for monitoring a pre-set time period for the display of game content.

A game and method of play is disclosed to facilitate learning of the IPA. The game is a multiplayer card game where each player receives a specified number of cards. Each card includes a single alphabetic character of the IPA. One player begins by spelling out a phonetic word using one or more of his or her cards. The next player then forms a new phonetic word by interchanging, adding or subtracting one of his or her cards to or from the phonetic word. Each player continues to form new words by interchanging, adding or subtracting a card. If a player is unable to form a new word, that player is out of the game. The game continues until only a single player is left. That player is the winner.

A game facilitating teaching of music reading and learning in a fun way includes a pair of blinding glasses which completely deprive a wearer of sight, seven cubes having a magnet at their centers and engraved musical notes on some of their sides. A musical staff having palpable lines and spaces allowing for the receipt of a plurality of staff note pieces to designate musical scales or chords. A timing device offers the possibility of increasing the difficulty of game play by limiting the amount of time a participant has to complete an arrangement of game pieces.

A card game for teaching skills to players for the models of behavioral and financial success includes a financial center; simulated life event cards; different variable element cards; a plurality of different energy element cards; a plurality of different self energy element cards; and a plurality of different game recordation and learning reports wherein the player can declare a qualifier by reaching a qualified target, any qualifier who self-confident become the winner can declare a state of entering the final decisive contest to challenge the champion and announce how many cycles the competition ended Simultaneously, the final competition period should not be less than three times cycling trough the financial center and the game will be finished after these cycles. Scores of all players will be calculated after end with a genuine winner being declared thereafter. The winner is not only a qualifier but also the genuine victor.

The invention discloses using playstyle patterns to generate virtual representations of game players. In various embodiments of the present disclosure, playstyle patterns of players are learned and used to generate virtual representations (''robot(bots)'') of users. Systems and methods are disclosed that use game session data (e.g., metadata) from a plurality of game sessions of a game to learn playstyle patterns of users, based on user inputs of the user in view of variables presented within the game sessions. The game session data is applied to one or more machine learning models to learn playstyle patterns of the user for the game, and associated with a user profile of the user. Profile data representative of the user profile is then used to control or instantiate bots of the users, orof categories of users, according to the learned playstyle patterns.

The invention relates to an immersive programming language learning system. The system can be arranged in a servo host, and the servo host is connected with a plurality of operation end devices through a network. The system comprises a communication module, a login module, a program installation suite downloading module, a data database module and an analysis and comparison module. The data can bestored by using a traditional relational database or permanently stored by using a blockchain technology. According to the learning game displayed by the hardware architecture and the application program installed by the program installation suite, an operator of a kindergarten can be immersed in the game in a dragging mode and learn English and programming grammar at the same time under the guidance of voice in cooperation with animation demonstration.

A truck line building board game for learning major highway travel routes and for learning to build and manage a truck line, wherein players travel a map board along major highways between a starting city and a destination city, and obtain payment for the distance travelled. Money earned is utilized to purchase additional trucks, wherein the trucks serve as a multiplier for the money received for travelling a particular route.

A study games kit is disclosed. The study games kit may include a plurality of game pieces that correspond to each of the one or more player users playing one or more mini-games, the game pieces are moved on the spaces that may require the one or more player users to draw cards and answer questions. The study games kit may also be a Quadrathlon style study games kit wherein each of the mini-games is played one after the other and the one or more player users win points throughout a series before the points are tallied up at the end of the series.

A geography game for learning geography and geographic information is disclosed that includes maps, scoresheets, lists of facts, and rules and instructions used to guide players on how to effectively use edible food items, such as chips, to learn geography through a fun and entertaining platform. The game provides marketing value to chip manufacturers and variations of the game add even more value by creating excitement and longevity. In one implementation, the edible chip is a triangular corn tortilla chip.

A board game for a plurality of players to learn arithmetic by playing the game with game pieces representative of the players. Each of the players has a first number of tokens, and the game is played on a game board with a dice rollable to advance the game pieces. The board game comprises a vessel for storing a second number of tokens. The game board comprises a plurality of locations extended around a perimeter of the game board. The plurality of locations is delineated for advancement of the game pieces according to a roll of the dice. Each delineated location indicates an arithmetic function operable by each of player based on their corresponding first number of tokens, when the representing game piece arrives on each delineated location.

The invention discloses a Chinese learning auxiliary device for overseas students, and the device comprises a display panel, one surface of the display panel is provided with a plurality of observation holes, the display panel is provided with a display mechanism at each observation hole, and each display mechanism comprises a conveying pipe, a driving part disposed on the conveying pipe, and a plurality of word boards. Chinese words can be arranged on different word boards and displayed through all the observation holes in the display panel, a user can conveniently recognize the Chinese words or combine the Chinese words according to words and sentences on the different word boards, and therefore a single-person or multi-person learning game can be achieved, the word boards in all the conveying pipes can be conveyed to the observation holes one by one through the driving part, under the cooperation of a limiting piece and the word boards, after the previous word board of a conveying pipe is taken out, the next word board can be automatically filled, so that a user can learn in a game, and the Chinese learning efficiency and the learning interestingness are improved.

The invention discloses an infant interactive learning editing method based on an ant colony algorithm. The method comprises the following steps: S1, establishing mobile terminal video education software based on the ant colony algorithm; s2, optimizing the ant colony algorithm; s3, performing interest analysis on the facial expression of the child based on the video; and S4, analyzing the emotion of the child based on the facial expression. By establishing mobile terminal video education software, interactive learning game elements are added in the process that children watch videos and read picture books, so that the children learn and memorize in the happy game process, and meanwhile the interest of the children in learning is cultivated.

The invention relates to an INVICIBLE English learning game. The game is composed of a server, learning software, a computer and a mobile phone display. Learning content in the server is abundant and diversified in forms, and thus, can attract learners a lot. The game of the invention has the advantages that the learning game with abundant content and high attraction is provided for the learners to improve the listening, expression, grammatical and writing capabilities of the learners and enhance the integrated quality of the learners.