Video games can be sources of pleasure and frustration. For many potential players, frustration is more common than pleasure. These players struggle with the tremendous complexity that exists in modern 3D video games. This paper presents the concept of breakdown [8] as a technique for analyzing this problem that many people have with accessing video games. Breakdown is the moment of failure tha...

This paper applies methods of interactional analysis to the video recording of a musical performance in Fez, Morocco, with the understanding that performance is most essentially a communicative phenomenon (Bauman, 1984). Music and interaction are the subject of Monson’s (1996) groundbreaking work on improvisation and interaction in jazz. Monson demonstrates that “jazz can be seen as a musical l...

Based on a video recording of conversational British English, this paper tests whether several different subordinate syntactic structures are evenly vocally integrated to their environment. "Secondary constructions" have been described in linguistics as dependent, subordinate forms elaborating on primary elements of discourse. Although their verbal and vocal characteristics have been deeply ana...

Automated systems for monitoring the behavior of cows have become increasingly important for management routines and for monitoring health and welfare. In the past few decades, various devices that record rumination have been developed. The aim of the present study was to compare rumination activity measured with a commercially available rumination collar (RC) against that obtained by direct vi...

We propose a novel algorithm to synchronize video recording the same scene from different viewpoints. Our method relies on correlating space-time interest point distribution in time between videos. Space-time interest points represent events in video that have high variation in both space and time. These events are unique in time and may pronounce themselves in videos from different viewpoints....

The paper applies to the issue of preservation of passenger vehicles during overcoming the roadblocks on a dry asphalt surface with the constant speed. The study aimed to estimate the forces which are affecting the suspension of the vehicle during the contact between a tyre and roadblock. Using the video recording it is possible to calculate the values of the tyre deflection and forces acting i...

The most stringent applications in the future will require network services with bounded-delay characteristics. In order to eeciently use the network resources, an accurate deterministic traac model must be developed. This paper analyses the XGOP-B model proposes an algorithm to extract parameters from MPEG video sources that does not allow unfortunate choices, since it automatically results in...

A vioient virtuai-reaiity (VR) video game's short-term impact on telepresence and hostility was studied. Five weeks before a lab experiment, participants completed a questionnaire measuring prior vioient video game use and trait aggression. Participants were randomly assigned to play a VR vioient video game, play a standard vioient video game, observe a vioient video game, or observe a non-vioi...

In this paper, we propose and implement a new scalable video server with distributed recording services using intelligent network attached storage based on cluster architectures. For this recording server, we propose a new distributed recording protocol. The recorder can also provide video-on-demand streaming services. With this facility, clients can access media data being recorded randomly, w...

BACKGROUND Since the invention of the simultaneous ICG and fluorescein (SIF) videoangiography in 1995 none of the available SLOs were significantly improved. Digital video recording with a PC can simplify and improve the quality of the angiography. METHOD SIF angiography images of a two-wavelength scanning laser ophthalmoscope were digitized with a personal computer and written to disk with a...