Despite the increasing importance of video games in both cultural and commercial aspects, typically they can only be accessed and browsed through limited metadata such as platform or genre. We explore visual styles of games as a complementary approach for providing access to games. In particular, we aimed to test and evaluate the existing visual style taxonomy developed in prior research with v...

As the genre of fantasy literature continues to grow, new authors strive innovate and stray from traditional principles that ruled it for many decades when epic was more prominent. Though features still remain a great part genre,the characteristics rule worlds, stories, characters have changed over time, bringing aspects into fold introducing voices. academics attempt categorize as diverse bett...

This article describes a novel and fast recommender system for websites based on product taxonomy and user click patterns. The proposed system consists of the following four steps. First, a product-preference matrix for each customer is estimated through a linear combination of the click, basket placement, and purchase statuses. Second, the preference matrix of the genre and that of the specifi...

This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...

The present study investigated the effect of single and multiple genre movies on listening comprehension of upper intermediate language learners. To this end, a language proficiency test was administered to 40 male and female postgraduates of different majors attending International English Language Testing System (IELTS) classes and ultimately 25 upper intermediate language learners were selec...

This article addresses the question of how dithyramb was classified in antiquity, examining detail two fragmentary papyri (P.Graec.Vindob. 19996a–b; P.Berol. 9671 verso) alongside other testimonia which comment on nature and development dithyrambic genre. While majority these expect to be associated with Dionysus, some show that this Dionysiac link not exclusively followed as defining criterion...

This essay presents a focused, comprehensive design study of the tetrominostacking computer puzzle game known as Tetris, tracing the structural history and evolution of the game's subtle yet complex mechanics since its invention in 1985. Although the basic algorithm is quite simple and has remained essentially unchanged throughout its history, the enormous variety of implementations and the lon...

abstract genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. the present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on iranian pre-intermediate efl leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their re...