In 2017, for example,
researchers designed a game engine - based system to identify optimal wind turbine positioning.
Not exact matches
Researchers are
designing educational video
games for use at home and in the classroom.
In another experiment,
researchers found that the older girls were less interested than their male counterparts in
games — one resembling a two - color version of Chinese checkers — that the team described as being
designed for «really, really smart children.»
Demis Hassabis, cofounder of Google - owned firm DeepMind, and Jeff Dean, who leads the Google Brain project, have both hinted that StarCraft will be their next target, while Facebook
researchers have just released an open - source platform
designed to help people develop AI to play the
game.
Researchers attributed this partly to the
game content, as serious video
games are
designed to both entertain and promote behavior change.
In response to the educational and psychological crisis among refugee children, the NYU and Bahcesehir
researchers enlisted colleagues with deep expertise in educational technology and
designed an online,
game - based learning intervention for refugee children named Project Hope.
Proposed rule changes by Major League Baseball,
designed to speed up the
game by reducing time between pitches, could lead to a spike in arm injuries as players have less time to recover between throws, say
researchers who have analyzed the impact of fatigue.
The
researchers concluded that accessibility in
game design should not be limited to the user interface and
game mechanics, but also content, such as the characters, activities and themes represented in
games.
Brown postdoctoral
researcher James Cavanagh led the research in which he recruited 34 people to play a custom -
designed computer
game while wearing EEG scalp monitors.
It was this idea that led Pam Omidyar, a
researcher working in an immunology lab and a
games enthusiast, to found HopeLab, a non-profit organization that develops technologies
designed to encourage healthy behaviors in teenagers.
Led by
researchers at NYU Langone's Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center, the new study reports that participants with MS who used tDCS while playing the cognitive training computer
games designed to improve information processing abilities showed significantly greater gains in cognitive measures than those who played the computer
games alone.
Researchers have been taking advantage of graphical processing units (GPUs), which are small chips
designed for high performance in processing the huge amount of visual content needed for video
games.
Few people may want to spend a Saturday night planning their end - of - life care, but playing a
game designed to spur conversation about advance care planning may be a more enjoyable way to ease into the process, according to
researchers.
A live, interactive
game design event, a «
game jam», with
researchers and
game designers on governance challenges for East Africa.
[In an in - depth opinion piece,
game designer and
researcher Douglas Wilson urges more collaborative approaches to
game design, suggesting that «the «auteur» school of
game development is not only outmoded, but dangerous to the vitality of the medium».]
Beyond Balancing: Using Five Elements of Failure
Design to Enhance Player Experiences Speaker: Jesper Juul (Lecturer /
Researcher, Singapore - MIT GAMBIT
Game Lab) Date / Time: Friday (March 27, 2009) 10:30 am — 10:50 am Location (room): Room 2022, West Hall
JONATHAN LESSARD, Assistant Professor in Concordia's
Design and Computation Arts department, is a
researcher and practitioner in the field of computer
games.
«It really isn't hard to discern where EA's priorities truly lie when they're so intent on hiring
researchers to find the best mathematical way to manipulate players rather than just passionately making
games that are fun and engaging by
design,» said YongYea.