Introduction to Gaming Ethics Video games are widely played for entertainment and amusement; in addition, they can act as an aid in relieving stress. Due to advancing technology, video games have evolved and grown into a large empire impacting those within this realm. Thus many ethical issues are brought to our attention due to this development. As a result, we should recognize how new video ga...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS This study investigated the inter-rater and intrarater reliability of four basic visual perceptual parameters (lesion size rating and glottal configuration) in laryngostroboscopic evaluation. STUDY DESIGN Cohort Study. METHODS Two hundred fifty-five laryngostroboscopic video samples were evaluated by three raters on four measurements: 1) mass lesion size rating, 2) amp...

RECOVERY OF DOGS UNDERGOING ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY by JENNIFER ELIZABETH COPELAND (Under the Direction of ERIK HOFMEISTER) ABSTRACT Recovery is an important part of the anesthetic episode, as monitoring is not as focused and complications can arise. This study investigated if there was a difference between the quality of recovery between induction with propofol or ketamine/diazepam. Dogs undergoing...

The eerie feeling attributed to photo-realistic human-like video game characters may serve as a usability obstacle leaving viewers dissatisfied with a particular character for a video game. This study investigates the relationships between user satisfaction and perceived strangeness and between user satisfaction and human-like appearance for virtual characters. 65 participants were asked to rat...

We present a method to classify movies on the basis of audio-visual cues present in the previews. A preview summarizes the main idea of a movie providing suitable amount of information to perform the genre classification. We perform the initial classification into action and non-action by computing the visual disturbance feature of every movie. Visual disturbance is defined as a measure of moti...

We examine the effect of online consumer reviews on the sales of video games. An inherent problem in measuring the influence of reviews on demand is that products receiving good reviews tend to be of high quality, and it is difficult to determine whether the review or the quality is responsible for the high demand. To circumvent this problem, we consider video games that are developed for both ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of using different types of media on physical performance and perceived exertion. This study was divided into two parts. In Part 1, we examined the effects of different combination of audio and video interventions on physical performance and rating of perceived effort (RPE). We recruited 20 collegiate students who performed a 12-minute cy...

International recommendations for subjective video quality assessment (e.g., ITU-R BT.500-11) include specifications for how to perform many different types of subjective tests. In addition to displaying the video sequences in different ways, subjective tests also have different rating scales, different words associated with these scales, and many other test variables that change from one labor...

K Electronic video games have many of the same technological and psychological characteristics that are found in military computer-based systems. For this reason, the video game is both a fascinating object of study and a valuable experimental apparatus. The results of two on-going research programs, both of which employ video games as experimental stimuli, are presented here. GS The first rese...