In order to explore the relationship between genres of games and learning styles, Section
2
examines the literature related
to learning styles and genres of games. Speci
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cally, it
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rst looks at various learning style models. Then, various genres of
typical computer games are analyzed, since computer based games for learning have similar characteristics and genres as any
other types of computer games. After that, Section
3
presents proposed relationships between the learning styles and genres
of games. The proposed relationships are based on the alignment between the characteristics of various genres of games and
the characteristics of various learning styles. Section
4
describes experimentations conducted to validate the proposed re-
lationships. In particular, learners
’
preferences for games genres and their learning styles are analyzed. Finally, the paper
concludes by discussing the
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ndings and providing the future research directions.