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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Play games"”.
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TaleBlazer : implementing a multiplayer server for location-based augmented reality games
… that allows users to both design their own games as well as play them on mobile devices. This thesis explores the addition of a multiplayer option that would allow users to design and play games involving multiple players in a single game world. It details how such a system would be set up …
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Students’ Perceptions for the Use of Computers in Elementary Schools
… computers as a ‘fun’ learning tool and used them play games, perform internet research, and type homework assignments. Study results showed that the students had overall better computer knowledge than their teachers had anticipated. Study implications include recommendations for integrating …
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Self-concept and attraction to physical activity: The effectiveness of an intervention programme to enhance children's level of physical activity
… desire to engage in physical activity through play, games, and sport. While there has been prolific research with middle primary and older children little is known of the importance of young children's physical self-concept and their motivation to engage in physical activity. This study had …
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Solving General Game Playing with Incomplete Information Problem using Iterative Tree Search and Language Learning
General Game Playing with Incomplete Information (GGP-II) is about developing a system capable of successfully playing incomplete information games without human intervention by just receiving their rules at runtime. Different algorithms (players) have been provided to play games in GGP-II. This …
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Gender, sex, and race in the gamespace of live action role play
… sexuality, and race within live action role play, a game format designed in an impromptu theatre style. My goal was to assess the ways in which sexism, racism, and hypersexuality pervade contemporary forms of entertainment, and to imagine ways in which gamespaces can be re-imagined to be more …
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Playful Labors: Narrative, Work and Digital Games
… strategic simulation genre, often called ""god games,"" such as SimCity, Civilization , and The Sims. Two ideas guide the various readings and analyses of digital games. First, despite being seen by many as the unserious objects of youthful play, games must be understood in terms of economic …
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Designing and Testing a Mobile Creative Coding Application for Children
… use mobile apps to socialize, communicate, and play games. There is an opportunity to channel this familiarity and fascination with mobile phones in order to introduce children to computational thinking and creative expression. Towards that end, the Lifelong Kindergarten (LLK) Group is designing …
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Environmental curriculum learning for efficiently achieving superhuman play in games
… has made large strides in training agents to play games, including complex ones such as arcade game Pommerman and real-time strategy game StarCraft II. To allow agents to grasp the many concepts in these games, curriculum learning has been used to teach agents multiple skills over time. We …
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DomeView : community-based digital bulliten boards and mobile phone interaction
Our thesis is that a networked public display/kiosk system, that provides information for a local community, functions best when it is decentralized and interactive. We deployed such a system at MIT that has two aspects, DomeView for distributed decentralized display and content distribution, and …
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Tactical Rhetoric: User Experience Analysis & Strategies for Game Developers
… studies have been conducted to determine who plays games, why they play games, methods of constructing games, and what qualities create a positive experience for players. However, within current research and critiques, there is a lack of specific reasoning for how exactly developers can use …
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Music in Schools
… Dl&n to a stnLw. Our children must learn to play the piano or violin, take dancing lessons, learn to recite and play games. These little Jllites have emerged from infancy with no background ot legend or tradition peculiar to thea to stimulate thelll to exprcuJs1on and are compelled to …
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Cheating in Multiplayer Video Games
Cheating in video games has been prevalent ever since the days of Pong. Games have evolved much since then and the ways in which people play together have changed as well. Older systems required people to play together in the same room, but with the advent of the internet, gaming consoles allow us …
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Speedrunners and Motivation: Self-Determination Theory Applied to a Speedrunning Community
… an important context for studying motivation in play, particularly for those gamers who choose to play games in ways unintended by their creators. This theory is important to speedrunning because the act of speedrunning, as described by participants, often feels unpleasant or like work. …
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The Las Vegas phenomenon
… groups and subsequent sections are Adults at Play, Fantasy, Theming, and Rebellion. People who play slot machines are studied and to them is applied the theory developed by Luhrmann in the book Persuasions of the Witches Craft that people in modern Britain who engage in witchcraft do so in …
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A Continuum of Traversing Lines: Youth Political Participation in Gaia Online
… to socialize with others, create content, and play games. Deleuze and Guattari (1987) have defined space with three systems: on one end is state-oriented static space, on the other end is nomadic fluid space, and situated in the middle is molecular space which contains both smooth and striating …
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Exploring Player Frustration: A Comparative Study of One vs. Multi-Level Difficulty in Video Games and the Short-Term Impact on Players
With the rise in popularity of challenging video games such as Elden Ring, belonging to the Souls genre known for its high difficulty level, the question arises regarding the immediate consequences players experience after frustrating encounters. Specifically, this study investigates the short-term …
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Multi-modal reinforcement learning with videogame audio to learn sonic features
… research only deals with the video component of games, even though humans typically play games while experiencing both audio and video. Additionally, most machine learning audio research deals with music or speech data, rather than environmental sound. We aim to bridge both of these gaps by …
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Identifikation von Prädiktoren des Trainingserfolgs bei schizophrenen Patienten
… with a therapist to talk, take a walk or play games. Before and after the training, the dependent variables Attention Network Task (ANT) and “Testbatterie zur Aufmerksamkeitsprüfung (TAP)” were measured. Surprisingly, the dependent variables did not show the expected training success. …
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Memorable Acts/active Rememberers: Contemporary Canadian Memory Plays
… alter-egos are brought face to face: the memory play. The memory play defies traditional genre definitions. It combines drama's immediacy with narrative's retrospection; drama's chronology with narrative's re-ordering; drama's a-perspective with narrative's focalization; drama's showing with …
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