BACKGROUND Today, due to developing communicative technologies, computer games and other audio-visual media as social phenomena, are very attractive and have a great effect on children and adolescents. The increasing popularity of these games among children and adolescents results in the public uncertainties about plausible harmful effects of these games. This study aimed to investigate the cor...

Gaming behaviors have been significantly influenced by smartphones. This study was designed to explore gaming behaviors and clinical characteristics across different gaming device usage patterns and the role of the patterns on Internet gaming disorder (IGD). Responders of an online survey regarding smartphone and online game usage were classified by different gaming device usage patterns: (1) i...

Video gaming is a firmly established leisure pursuit, which continues to grow in popularity. This paper is an examination of what motivates people to play computer games, and the relevance of such factors to the positive and negative aspects of computer gaming. When all of an individual‘s motivations to play video games are for the pursuit of ̳fun‘, it is said that an intrinsic motivation is th...

Information technologies are an integral part of a contemporary society which bases its progress on knowledge being one goal of education. Beside acquiring knowledge, skills and routines, the goal of education is to create a complete individual who can rationally and timely make decisions, purposefully react in new situations and be trained for life-long learning. In order to accomplish all thi...

Integrating new technologies into the curriculum has always been difficult. Despite the recent technological advances in computer games, the rapid growth of the industry and the number of hours spent playing games, computer games have not been integrated into our education system. We examine different ways games can be used in teaching, describe the barriers and propose solutions.

This study investigated how Chinese undergraduate college students studying English as a foreign language learned new vocabulary with inference-based computer games embedded in eBooks. The investigators specifically examined (a) the effectiveness of computer games (using inferencing) in eBooks, compared with hardcopy booklets for vocabulary retention, and (b) the relationship between students’ ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the energy expenditure of adolescents when playing sedentary and new generation active computer games. DESIGN Cross sectional comparison of four computer games. Setting Research laboratories. PARTICIPANTS Six boys and five girls aged 13-15 years. PROCEDURE Participants were fitted with a monitoring device validated to predict energy expenditure. They played four compu...

Accessibility of computer games is a Challenge. Indeed, making accessible a computer game is much more difficult than making accessible a desktop application. In this paper we first define game accessibility. Then we present a number of papers published in the last decade: specific games (audiogames, tactile games etc), games designed for all, and a few works about game accessibility. Then we w...

'Griefing' is a term used to describe when a player within a multiplayer online environment intentionally disrupts another player’s game experience for his or her own personal enjoyment or gain. Every day a certain percentage of users of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) are experiencing some form of griefing. There have been studies conducted in the past that attempted t...

1 For a more current version of this paper see www.infenv.csee.uq.edu.au (follow the links to the first author’s web page). Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in the success or failure of computer games. The paper explores the use of AI in games focusing on difficulties faced by game developers and techniques that have proven useful. An argument is p...