Video Games

La globalización y sociedades del conocimiento empiezan a aprovechar las herramientas de la industria de la tecnología. Existen trabajos académicos que utilizan a los videojuegos como un medio de llegar al conocimiento al utilizar ambientes digitales que estos ofrecen, sin embargo, no todos presentan destrezas profundas de la utilización de estos. El videojuego Minecraft se utiliza en diferentes estudios realizados de temas variados por lo que crear un servidor multijugador es un paso implícito que se realiza y en la mayoría de los casos no se documenta. Con el propósito de contribuir con la educación que utiliza entornos virtuales de juegos comerciales, el presente trabajo tiene la finalidad de aportar con una configuración eficiente para el desarrollo de escenarios virtuales en el juego de Minecraft. Como resultado se presenta una guía para entender conceptos básicos, funcionamiento general, optimización, creación de un servidor y la forma de desarrollar entornos virtuales optimiz...

HAL is a distinctly original and ambitious research program, which is set to yield multiple benefits for the Ionian Islands Prefecture, while also providing the various Labs of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University with the opportunity to collaborate more closely and more creatively together. In addition to its other positive outcomes, HAL extends the technical expertise of said Labs and supports and further develops the Department’s research and innovation infrastructure, while at the same time fortifying its academic research workforce through the recruitment of a significant number of new researchers.
The program is exclusively carried out by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, not as part or as an extension of an already launched project, but as an autonomous project with specific goals, giving a new impetus to the Ionian Islands’ economy, its infrastructure and know-how. More specifically, HAL reinforces and makes, via a field that has not been efficiently developed in any of the other Greek Prefectures: up-to-date interactive audiovisual arts.

We will talk about this famous epitaph, maybe more than an epitaph or any inscription, which has or had everything to do with a duck in Freiburg during a war, as it might serve to gain a differentiating insight towards an “Asian” way of understanding (in opposition to a “Western” one) of temporality. We will talk about how this understanding is natural and normal or supernatural and paranormal, or something in between, or completely out of the picture that is created by this kind of dichotomies and binary oppositions. We will talk about the phenomenality that necessitates the “para-” prefix, as in paranormal or parapsychological. And eventually, we will talk about what this has to do with waylessness, which might be, in itself, a strange concept. But not now. Now, we need to talk about another thing someone else said in history. Because we don’t want to be asking the right questions wrongly or we maybe haven’t found those questions yet. That’s why, to get to the bottom of the issue at hand, first there is a need for an examination of the phenomenality of profanity, which reaches far deeper than its unfairly negative depiction in some philosophical and religious studies, as it can open up a new way to experience the origin of sanctity which was always closed for forever to any form of spirituality and religiosity as generally understood.

Este artigo é parte de um projeto de extensão que tem por objetivo ensinar crianças a programar através de joguinhos. O artigo apresenta a fase de concepção do jogo, o qual foi realizada por uma equipe interdisciplinar de computação, comunicação e letras. Para a concepção foram utilizadas técnicas de design colaborativo e foi aplicado o método CARD para a definição das regras do jogo. Para a produção, utilizou-se da abordagem de processos de negócio de forma colaborativa, na qual foi definido um fluxo de atividades para cada parte da equipe. Este artigo apresenta o desenvolvimento e discute a aplicabilidade dos métodos para a concepção de um produto.

In the present document we present an Interface called BrainMouse where its main task is to help people with motor disabilities specially tetraplegic or quadriplegic people that they can move the mouse of the computer by means of blinking or any neural response. The Interface uses the data obtained from a neuronal system which is responsible for taking reliable readings of the electrical signals generated in the human brain, through non-intrusive neuronal interfaces. The recorded data is used by the BrainMouse Interface so that the mouse can perform functions such as an up, down, left lateral, right lateral, left click, right click and double click. Thus, this interface has all the options that a conventional mouse would have.

Le rôle du jeu dans la structuration des Cultures Je commencerai, comme tout le monde, par des pionniers et des classiques : Arnold Van Gennep, un peu inattendu ici, Johan Huizinga et Roger Caillois. Je ne rappellerai que l'essentiel de leurs apports décisifs, pour fonder mon raisonnement, m'y appuyer, et tenter d'aller plus loin avec René Girard. En effet, j'ai l'intention de montrer, avec eux, que le jeu est essentiel dans la fondation, la structuration et la conservation des Cultures. Dans ses géniales intuitions, Johan Huizinga avait bien pressenti, sans jamais arriver à le formuler radicalement, que le jeu est issu du mécanisme « sacré » fondateur de toute Culture. René Girard l'a fait. Je le résume ici avec mes mots : le jeu, qui est un rite, est un « replay » symbolique, à caractère prophylactique, du sacrifice du bouc émissaire, fondateur de toute Culture. Il vous faudra un peu de patience et un peu de bienveillance pour me donner le temps de définir tous ces concepts, de les articuler dans un raisonnement, et enfin de vous proposer une synthèse qui n'est, comme c'est le cas pour toute recherche, qu'une étape provisoire sur le long chemin de la découverte de notre condition humaine de « singe raté ». Voilà, pour la mise en route ! ***

La distancia deja de ser una barrera para el trabajo y la creatividad. ¿Podría Facetime ser el futuro de la fotografía de moda?. La pandemia nos exige cambios y aislamiento, esto nos afecta socialmente y obliga a todos los sectores audiovisuales de la moda a generar un cambio en la metodología de trabajo. La moda se ha tenido que aggiornar transformando, entre otras cosas, las sesiones fotográficas presenciales en photoshoots digitales teniendo como aliados principales a las aplicaciones como: Facetime, Zoom, Skype, entre otros.

Research has supported the effectiveness of narratives for promoting health behavior, but different narrative presentation formats (serial vs. episodic) have seldom been compared. Suspense theories suggest that serial narratives, which do not provide a full resolution at the end of an episode, may create higher motivation for continued engagement with a story. Forty-four 8 to 12-year-old children were randomly assigned to watch an animation series designed for an existing active video game in which the plot was delivered either continuously across multiple episodes (serial) or in multiple yet relatively independent self-contained episodes (episodic). Controlling for social desirability, children who watched the serial narrative had significantly more moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and step counts while the episodic group's gameplay duration decreased, especially during later visits. There was no difference in self-reported narrative immersion or physical activity intention. Serial narratives can result in more time spent in MVPA behaviors than episodic narratives.

Background The incorporation of narratives helps to enhance children’s engagement in active video games (AVGs), thus increasing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Specific narrative elements, such as the visual representation of the characters’ body shape, have been rarely manipulated to explore their role in modulating children’s narrative engagement (NE) and exercise motivation. Objective To investigate the effects of character body shape manipulation (overweight/obese, average, or athletic slim) on children’s narrative immersion (NI), NE, wishful identification (WI), as well as their mediating effect on AVG and PA motivation. Methods Children ages 8–12 years old (N = 87) were randomly assigned to watch a 15-min animated video (designed for an existing AVG) in which the main characters had an overweight/obese, or average∗, or athletic slim body shape (all other elements were identical). Children’s NI, NE, WI, and AVG and physical activity (PA) motivation were then asse...

This article provides an overview of ten case-studies of video games, examining the relation between non-Euclidean geometric representation and the embodied spatial perception, experienced as phenomenological difference and repetition. Contemporary video games, through the use of non-Euclidean geometries propose a new perceptual scheme towards a more dynamic and interactive experience of the space, time and objecthood, where dissociations and cognitive interpretations operate as generators of innovative imaginative spaces with greater depth of immersion and engaging narratives. In this context, the classification of typical examples of non-Euclidean video games according to their spatial characteristics and properties is a revealing task, as it can outline diverse modes of relating space geometries to the overall embodied spatial perception. Thus, the process of recognizing differences and similarities between the navigational methods that these games use, can produce an interesting association between spatial movement and main gameplay features, leading to a new reality of virtuality that is interconnected to the physicality of our embodied understanding.

O presente trabalho analisa a representação na visão ocidental da República da Coreia (Coreia do Sul) e da República Popular Democrática da Coreia (Coreia do Norte) em dois momentos históricos distintos. O universo de pesquisa abrange duas publicações em quadrinhos, cada qual focando um desses momentos. O italiano Romano Scarpa produziu uma saga “Seul 88”, em oito capítulos, tratando com humor e utilizando personagens Disney para descrever um romance envolvendo personagens nativos das duas Coreias. Foi publicado no Brasil em agosto de 1988, às vésperas dos jogos olímpicos. Lançado em 2004, a graphic novel “Pyongyang: Uma Viagem à Coreia do Norte” do canadense Guy Delisle, apresenta um retrato irônico e crítico da Coreia do Norte, fruto de sua experiência de dois meses trabalhando como supervisor num estúdio de animação francês (que terceirizou a mão de obra), testemunhando o controle rígido e autoritário de seus anfitriões. O objetivo é verificar como os países são retratados em rel...

The paper proposes a framework that combines behavioral and computational experiments employing fictional prompts as a novel tool for investigating cultural artifacts and social biases in storytelling both by humans and generative AI. The study analyzes 250 stories authored by crowdworkers in June 2019 and 80 stories generated by GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in March 2023 by merging methods from narratology and inferential statistics. Both crowdworkers and large language models responded to identical prompts about creating and falling in love with an artificial human. The proposed experimental paradigm allows a direct comparison between human and LLM-generated storytelling. Responses to the Pygmalionesque prompts confirm the pervasive presence of the Pygmalion myth in the collective imaginary of both humans and large language models. All solicited narratives present a scientific or technological pursuit. The analysis reveals that narratives from GPT-3.5 and particularly GPT-4 are more more progressive in terms of gender roles and sexuality than those written by humans. While AI narratives can occasionally provide innovative plot twists, they offer less imaginative scenarios and rhetoric than human-authored texts. The proposed framework argues that fiction can be used as a window into human and AI-based collective imaginary and social dimensions.

de l'article : L'objet de cet article est de problématiser les implications politiques inscrites dans la conceptualisation universitaire de la transmédialité. Dès la publication des premières recherches de Jenkins (2013), les travaux universitaires consacrés à la transmédialité ont été le support d'une attitude intellectuelle militante (celle des aca-fans), qui rompt avec la « neutralité axiologique » dont se réclamait, il n'y a pas encore si longtemps, la communauté universitaire. Cette interprétation politique de la transmédialité prend le plus souvent appui sur l'observation des modalités de plus en plus politiques par lesquelles les fans s'approprient le contenu d'une fiction transmédiatique. Au lieu de se limiter à interpréter le contenu de leurs fictions préférées, les fans se mobilisent, dans la réalité, pour les mêmes causes sociales qui motivent, dans la fiction, l'engagement de leurs personnages favoris. Ainsi Wonder Woman est, par exemple, devenue, aux États-Unis, l'égérie du féminisme, Superman, le porte-drapeau des droits des immigrés et Joker, le nouveau héraut d'une contestation urbaine violente et désabusée. Que penser de l'engagement politique des fans ? Que penser des universitaires qui reconnaissent dans le fan-activisme l'expression d'une forme de sociabilité révolutionnaire ainsi que la préfiguration d'un ordre politique d'avenir ? Faut-il vraiment y voir les prémices d'une nouvelle ère politique d'émancipation placée sous l'égide de la technologie numérique ? Ou faut-il plutôt y voir le symbole du défaitisme de nos démocraties tardives, condamnant les citoyens à compenser leur impuissance politique par le mirage d'un militantisme onirique et puéril ?

Background and purpose: Difficulty to maintain balance in stroke patients on their daily living activities is of major challenge. Our study aims to compare the effects of task oriented training program and balance training on improving balance in stroke patients. Methods: A sample of 30 patients within the age group of 40-65 years with Stroke were randomly divided into two groups, Group A(n=15) and a group B (n=15).The subjects in the group A is treated with Task oriented training program and the subjects in the group B is treated with balance training. The subjects balance is measured by Berg Balance Scale and Performance oriented Mobility Assessment before and after completion of six months of treatment program. Results: After six months of treatment there is a significant difference in both Group A and Group B. When the mean changes between the groups are compared there is more improvement in Group A in compared to Group B. Conclusion: The 6 months exercise program shows that Tas...

Since the first ideation of the World Innovation Stock Exchange in 2015, the business landscape has drastically changed. The world witnessed the introduction the Metaverse as the pioneer of cyber-parallel worlds. Societies endured a global pandemic and the subsequent socio-economic crises of unprecedented force. All happened under an ambient banalization of individual entrepreneurship as a shaping capacity with increasing impact power on the Collective (physical, cultural, and digital society). Under the phenomena of globalization and financialization, the contribution to knowledge and innovation is becoming more and more organic, since citizens themselves endorse an entrepreneurial proactiveness in tackling challenges of varied scale. The contemporary global technologic and social disruptions are changing the game of innovation management. Emerging and existing technologies of the Industrialisation 4.0 not only provide a platform to the digital world, but also augment it, thereby a...

Article History: Received 03.11.2015 Received in revised form 27.11.2015 Accepted 02.12.2015 Available online 31.12.2015 The purpose of this study is to investigate studies conducted in the field of education of gifted children. Document review method, which is one of the quantitative methods, was used in this study. The scope of the study consists of thesis, dissertations, scientific papers and books on education of gifted children. The data of the study were collected from YOK online thesis center, articles in the ULAKBIM database, university libraries and some online search engines. The collected data were interpreted using frequencies and percentages. According to the findings, proceedings have the highest percentage while dissertations have the lowest percentage. The highest number of master’s thesis and doctoral dissertations are written at Istanbul University. The purpose of most of the master’s thesis is to determine the current situation while doctoral dissertations’ purpos...

Introduction. The study was carried out with children of 2nd, 4th and 6th grades of elementary school in order to explore what and how will children learn from a completely new videogame.Method. We organized children from 2nd, 4th and 6th grades of elemental school , giving them chance to play a freshly released videogame by that time. We formed small groups of 4 players with 2 boys and 2 girls in each group. We offered them a console and only 2 controllers. With this design, we would like to observe and analyze the differences between these players according to their age and gender. This process of learning and playing videogames lasted for 11 weeks.Result. The results have shown the capacity of learning without adult’s intervention among all the players in this study. It also shows the coordination of cooperation of each group in order to learn to play the video game. We’d like to highlight their autonomy in learning and their ability to solve different conflicts happened during t...

A recurrent problem in the analysis of behavioral dynamics, given a simultaneously evolving social network, is the difficulty of separating the effects of partner selection from the effects of social influence. Because misattribution of selection effects to social influence, or vice versa, suggests wrong conclusions about the social mechanisms underlying the observed dynamics, special diligence in data analysis is advisable. While a dependable and validmethod would benefit several research areas, according to the best of our knowledge, it has been lacking in the extant literature. In this paper, we present a recently developed family of statistical models that enables researchers to separate the two effects in a statistically adequate manner. To illustrate our method, we investigate the roles of homophile selection and peer influence mechanisms in the joint dynamics of friendship formation and substance use among adolescents. Making use of a three-wave panel measured in the years 19...