Sentences with phrase «games researcher at»

Jesper Juul, a New York University games researcher at the NYU Game Center, weighs in.

Constance Steinkuehler, a games researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, asked middle and high school students who were struggling readers to choose a game topic they were interested in, and then she picked texts from game sites for them to read — some as difficult as first - year - college language.

That sentiment was immediately echoed by T. L. Taylor, a games researcher at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Ruch, a games researcher at Qantm College in Sydney, Australia, says it was one of the most authentic social interactions that he had ever experienced in a video game.

Not exact matches

In a working paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers Mara Faccio and John McConnell estimated that the total amount of property and equipment damage caused by Pokemon Go players in the nearly 150 days after the game's release amounted to $ 2 billion to $ 7.3 billion.

A «brain training» iPad game developed in Britain may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at home and at work, researchers said on Monday.

You could also think of your brain like a baseball game, according to Yuval Nir, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

In a 2010 study, researchers at Washington State University and the Desert Research Institute had college students play a computer game with four other players, who were really manipulations by the researchers.

A joint «Super Bowl Ads» study by researchers at Stanford University and Humboldt University in Germany recently found that for some advertisers long associated with the big game, the benefits of Super Bowl ads persist well into the year.

The King - Devick (K - D) test measuring the speed of rapid number naming is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes who should be removed from a game or practice for further evaluation, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- In a study of six - year - olds, researchers found no IQ differences between kids who were fed formula supplemented with long - chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) as infants and those who got regular formula, but the PUFA kids were notably faster at picture - matching games.

Significantly, the data showed that reducing the number of head hits in practice did not, as a later study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center [4] predicted, lead to higher force impacts during games.

Based on data showing that, while youth football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»

«For the first time, we have found that a sample of randomly assigned young adults showed less activation in certain frontal brain regions following a week of playing violent video games at home,» said one researcher.

A 2013 study [28] by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital and Virginia Tech [24] showed that reducing the number of head hits in practice did not, as some had predicted [29][25] lead to higher force impacts during games.

Researchers at WakeMed Health and Hospitals, Raleigh, NC, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, found that, while athletes are generally knowledgeable about the signs and symptoms of concussion, there is a «gross under reporting» of concussion events, with a large proportion of those surveyed indicating that they continued to participate in both games and practices while experiencing symptoms.

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital performed preseason brain scans of 65 varsity athletes — 23 from collision sports (with routine, purposeful body - to - body contact), 22 from contact sports (where contact is allowed, but is not an integral part of the game) and 20 from non-contact sports.

Researchers are designing educational video games for use at home and in the classroom.

Sadeghi and Bisker presented the work at SIGGRAPH and fielded many questions from researchers in the game and movie industries.

Furiously crunching numbers on their computers, the researchers put the odds of impact in the year 2029 at exactly those of hitting the number in a game of roulette: 1 in 37.

A study by researchers at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues at Paris Descartes University assessed the association between the amount of time spent playing video games and children's mental health and cognitive and social skills, and found that playing video games may have positive effects on young children.

Gamers might one day be able to enjoy the same graphics - intensive fast - action video games they play on their gaming consoles or personal computers from mobile devices without guzzling gigabytes, thanks to a new tool developed by researchers at Duke University and Microsoft Research.

Computer science researchers at North Carolina State University and Universidade de Lisboa have developed a tool for use with the game Skyrim that can be used to create nonplayer characters (NPCs) that allow for more variability and flexibility in game play.

To track the effect of the video game on real - life fruit and vegetable consumption at baseline and six months later, researchers completed 24 - hour dietary recalls with children over the phone three times, averaging breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner fruit and vegetable intakes.

II: Saving the Kingdom of Fivealot, researchers from the United States Department of Agriculture / Agricultural Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital evaluated how creating implementation intentions (i.e., specific plans) within the goal - setting component in the game helped fourth and fifth grade students improve fruit and vegetable intake at specific meals.

BIOFAB aims to up the game by providing free biological parts that researchers can reliably use in their work, say Endy and codirector Adam Arkin, a bioengineer at the University of California, Berkeley.

Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Minnesota and Heidelberg devised a series of games to find out which factors lead to cooperative behaviour when people interact in social and workplace situations.

However, when the researchers compared players» performance before and after sleeping, only Doom - related dreaming was correlated with improvement at the game.

Researchers at the University of York have found no evidence to support the theory that video games make players more violent.

The study of Syrian refugee children, presented by researchers on June 6 at BAU International University in Washington, DC, suggests that digital games can be a cost - efficient and scalable approach to meeting the educational and psychological needs of refugee children.

«We could make it harder if we presented important game - related items where we didn't think people were paying attention,» says James J Clark, a computer vision researcher at McGill University in Montreal.

«It's like driving a car with 50 steering wheels,» says Michiel van de Panne, a computer animation researcher at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who is one of many trying a new approach to giving robots and video game characters more realistic gaits.

A robotic arm and a virtual game were essential tools in a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Better understanding how realistic touch sensations can break the VR illusion may help developers create more engaging virtual environments for games and virtual reality therapy, says Sean Follmer, a human - computer interaction researcher at Stanford University not involved in the study.

Future work will investigate the styles of thinking that are in evidence when the problem gamblers at the National Problem Gambling Clinic play the simplified games the researchers have developed.

«When researchers use video games as a tool for cognitive enhancement, they assume that game performance relies on specific cognitive / brain function, yet there is a little evidence that establishes such a connection,» explained lead investigator Chandramallika Basak, PhD, Assistant Professor at The Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas at Dallas.

In the fall of 2003, two media researchers at the University of Southern California set up a study to look at the patterns of brain activity triggered by violent video games.

At the beginning of a similar card game played with 3 - and 5 - year - old Chinese children, researchers told some of the kids that they had a reputation for being smart.

Video games that pit players against human - looking characters may be more likely to provoke violent thoughts and words than games where monstrous creatures are the enemy, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Connecticut and Wake Forest University.

When played immediately following exposure to trauma, «the Tetris game had a protective effect,» lead researcher Emily Holmes, a professor at Oxford, said.

According to a new study by researchers at Concordia University, Colorado State University, Syracuse University, Hofstra University and the University of Toronto, a male gamer who chooses to play as a female character will still display signs of his true gender.

In this issue, journalist and former researcher Simon Makin takes a hard look at whether brain - training games — such as those offered by Lumosity — really can improve your thinking and stave off dementia.

Limitations For all of the enthusiasm around games and learning, very few studies have examined whether video games improve classroom performance and academic achievement, says Emma Blakey, PhD researcher in developmental psychology at the University of Sheffield in England.

Previously, the researchers believed that humans at that time had been far more involved in mobile groups of big - game hunters whose main protein intake thus should have come from herbivores such as red deer, aurochs and elk, and consequently the role of fishing was not recognised.

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that gamers using thin avatars showed increased physical activity compared to those using obese avatars.

In fact, of those teachers who use video games in the classroom, more than half have kids play them as part of the curriculum at least once a week, according to a national survey released by education researchers at Joan Ganz Cooney Center in June.

The council looked at several ways to help researchers «stay in the game» at a time when the NIH success rate (the portion of reviewed research proposals receiving funding) is stuck at a historical low of 18 %.

Curious, the researchers systematically tested more gamers — people who play video games for at least an hour at least four times a week — and nonplayers on several other tests.

Dan Pinchbeck Games researcher at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and creative director of thechineseroom game studio

Microsoft's Kinect games controller has been hacked by researchers at Brunel University London to relieve one of the most distressing symptoms of Parkinson's — freezing of gait.