This interview was made by email with Kevin Corti, the founder and the managing director of PIXELearning Limited. PIXELearning is a games-based learning company in the UK that
specialises in Business education and business and management skills
development. The interview was made in April 2006.

www.pixelearning.com

Kevin Corti, Ari Närhi, Juho Jouhtimäki

This interview was made by e-mail with Chris Brannigan, the CEO of Caspian Learning. Caspian Learning is British software based e-Learning organisation. They create interactive learning applications, in which students are immersed within a 3D games based environment. Their web site can be found here: http://www.caspianlearning.co.uk/. You can find downloadable demos of their product from the web site.
The interview was made in June 2005.

Chris Brannigan, Juho Jouhtimäki

This interview deals with an educational game for children, but the content is still applicable for educational game design in general. The interview was made with Mikko Monto (managing director) and Olli-Poika Parviainen (concept designer) from a Finnish game and content provider company Oy Second Brain Ltd. (http://www.secondbrain.net/).

Juho Jouhtimäki

This interview was made by e-mail with Prof. Jos van der Werf from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Ir. Aaldrik Sillius from University Medical Centre Groningen. They are designing non-digital educational role playing games, which use ICT as additional tools. Their main project is GIMMICS, the pharmacy practice game. The interview was made in February 2006.

Jos van der Werf, Aaldrik Sillius, Ari Närhi, Juho Jouhtimäki

This interview was made by e-mail with Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, the CEO of Serious Games Interactive. Serious Games Interactive is located in Copenhagen. It is currently working with an educational game, Global Conflicts: Middle East.
The interview was made in February 2006.

http://www.seriousgames.dk

Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Ari Närhi, Juho Jouhtimäki

This interview was made by e-mail with Pál Honti, the CEO of Mimoza Communications and Coedu EducatioNet. Both are Hungarian companies involved with e-learning. The interview was made in January 2006.

http://www.mimoza.hu/
http://www.coedu.hu/mss/alpha

Pál Honti, Ari Närhi, Juho Jouhtimäki

Working memory (WM) capacity is the ability to retain and manipulate information during a short period of
time.

Torkel Klingberg, Hans Forssberg, and Helena Westerberg

Deficits in executive functioning, including working memory (WM) deficits, have been suggested to be important
in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

TORKEL KLINGBERG, M.D., and others

Increased prefontal and parietal activity after training of working memory

Pernille J Olesen, Helena Westerberg, Torkel Klingberg

CTI response to document regarding list of criteria for defining quality of an elearning experience

Apostolos Gkamas