BACKGROUND AND AIMS The most popular recreational pastime in the U.S. is television viewing. Some researchers have claimed that television may be addictive. We provide a review of the definition, etiology, prevention and treatment of the apparent phenomenon of television addiction. METHODS Selective review. RESULTS We provide a description of television (TV) addiction, including its negativ...

Our research explores the use of ensemble, or multistrategy learning techniques for inducing and managing patterns of knowledge from organizational data. Specifically, we are exploring the use of data mining techniques in building an ensemble classification system – i.e., a system that incorporates multiple machine learning techniques to generate multiple models from existing data and make pred...

In the human behavior analysis, the Visual Focus Of Attention (VFOA) of a person is a very important cue. Its detection is difficult, though, especially in a unconstrained and crowded environment, typical of video surveillance scenarios. In this paper, we estimate the VFOA by defining the Subjective View Frustum, which approximates the visual field of a person in a 3D representation of the scen...

BACKGROUND The contribution of family circumstance to physical activity and television viewing has not been widely investigated in pre-adolescents, and available information is inconsistent. This study examines whether television viewing and objectively measured physical activity vary by different indicators of family circumstance. METHODS Data from the 2001 Children's Leisure Activity Study ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relative contributions of exposure to violence, parental monitoring, and television-viewing habits to children's self-reported violent behaviors. The study hypothesized that: 1) children's exposure to violence would be associated positively with self-reported violent behaviors; 2) parental monitoring would be associated negatively with children's violent behaviors; and ...

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this research was to study whether a fastpaced television show immediately influences preschool-aged children’s executive function (eg, self-regulation, working memory). METHODS: Sixty 4-year-olds were randomly assigned to watch a fastpaced television cartoon or an educational cartoon or draw for 9 minutes. They were then given 4 tasks tapping executive function, includin...

OBJECTIVE Cross-sectional research has suggested that television viewing may be associated with decreased attention spans in children. However, longitudinal data of early television exposure and subsequent attentional problems have been lacking. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that early television exposure (at ages 1 and 3) is associated with attentional problems at age ...

Although television is still the dominant source, in recent years the public's consumption of news programming has shifted noticeably. While formerly audiences tuned in to the networks' national newscasts with regularity, today more people rely on local news programs than on network news. Opinion surveys recorded this shift as early as 1993 when the Roper Organization's annual survey of televis...

The present study is to examine the impact of television advertisements on children, and how it leads to consumerism of product. Advertising is the most influential and powerful medium in the present commercial society. As far as its influence on the society is concerned, advertising is second only to movies. An advertisement shapes the attitude and beliefs of the children and it encompass ever...

This study was originally planned from September tenth through twelfth to assess concurrent use of three real-time data sources during a usual day. When the World Trade Center towers collapsed, the plan expanded to describe 24-hour blood pressure and heart rate, natural environment word use, television viewing/radio listening, and self-reported diary feelings for six undergraduate students in t...