Learning with your Friend's Data: Game Entity Social Mapping in Serious Games

We propose a new game mechanic, Game Entity Social Mapping (GESM), based on fetching data about the player and his contacts through social networking sites and mapping it over different game entities. It seems particularly interesting to apply GESM in serious games. To train, teach or persuade a user it is increasingly necessary to use realistic contexts or familiar information to the player. This paper presents games which use GESM and the most promising research lines of it