Perceptions of Play

Evolution of Perceptions and Play∗

An agent with a misperception may have an evolutionary advantage when his misperception and its behavioral implications are recognized by others. In such situations evolutionary forces can lead to misperceptions, yielding “irrational behavior,” such as the play of strictly dominated strategies. We point out that this reasoning relies on the assumption of subjective rationality–agents are assume...

Processing Play; Perceptions of Persuasion

This is a theoretical position paper exploring a projecting of the paradigm of dual process modeling of perception onto the perception of “play”. In this process, a model is proposed that sheds new light on the understanding of how “play” is understood, perceived and processed by the player. The paper concludes with a discussion on what implications the model can have on play analysis, game des...

Children’s Perceptions of Mixed Reality Play

This article reports on child-focused reflections from research findings of a year-long investigation working with primary school aged children and young people in England exploring mixed reality play. 58 children and young people were engaged in the project and actively participated in 29 focus group interviews over time. Thematic qualitative analysis revealed five broad features of mixed real...

Perceptions of Play: Using Play-Doh to Enhance the Student Experience in Bioscience Higher Education

construction and validation of the translation teacher competency test and the scale of students’ perceptions of translation teachers

the major purpose of this study was to develop the translation teacher competency test (ttct) and examine its construct and predictive validity. the present study was conducted in two phases: a qualitative phase as well as a quantitative phase. in the first phase of the study, the author attempted to find out the major areas of competency required for an academic translation teacher. the second...