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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"social gaming"”.
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Introducing the Let’s Face It! Scrapbook app: Social eye processing training for improving face-to-face social interactions in autistic youth
… and following the eye gaze of others are key social eye processing abilities. Deficits are associated with social dysfunction, clinical disorders, and particularly with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A critical question is whether social eye processing abilities can be trained for improving …
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Motivations, experiences and outcomes of playing videogames
The current research examined gaming within a leisure context to examine the motivational and experiential value of the activity, to better understand the range of outcomes of playing videogames. Flow theory was used as a theoretical framework for examining positive gaming experiences, and how …
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Game Appropriation: Where does the gamer fit?
… game experiences but instead are multiplayer socially-oriented ones (e.g. World of Warcraft). This change underpins the central concern of this thesis, to understand game appropriation and the intrinsically motivating nature of gaming. Game appropriation is defined as the broad incorporation …
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Gauging Training Effectiveness of Virtual Environment Simulation Based Applications for an Infantry Soldier Training Task
… The U.S. Army has been investing in serious gaming technology for the past two decades as a cost effective means to teach tactics and strategy. Today, the U.S. Army is seeking to expand its application of virtual environment training to areas such as cultural awareness and human network …