Search results for "Videogame"
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SIMaging the City. The Educational Use of Video Games in a Youth Club of Palermo
2016
Media Education (Media Literacy, Media Literacy Education) has a great potential in informal education contexts. As with schools, in these contexts too media can be adopted both as a tool of expression/communication/information retrieval and as an object of study in and of itself, with multifaceted - and often contradictory - implications (social, cultural, political, economic, etc.). This double level of media use in educational contexts (either formal or informal) is crucial for the development of the citizenship in the digital era, for fostering social inclusion and promotion as well as cultural and intercultural growth and exchange. Media educators operating in these contexts play the f…
Effects of Exergaming in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease Compared to Conventional Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
2022
Background: Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs are used for improving prognosis and quality of life in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Nonetheless, adherence to these programs is low, and exercise-based CR programs based on virtual reality (i.e., exergaming) have been proposed as an alternative to conventional CR programs. However, whether exergaming programs are superior to conventional CR programs in patients with CVD is not known. Objective: This systematic review with meta-analysis was conducted to explore whether exergaming enhances exercise capacity, quality of life, mental health, motivation, and exercise adherence to a greater extent than conventional CR…
Edutainment and gender
2011
Language and Culture in Videogames
2020
La integración del videojuego educativo con el folklore. Una propuesta de aplicación en Educación Primaria
2016
El artículo se centra en una experiencia de innovación en Educación Primaria que forma parte del trabajo práctico de la asignatura Música y nuevas tecnologías del Grado en maestro de Educación Primaria impartida en la Escuela Universitaria de Educación y Turismo de Avila (Universidad de Salamanca), enmarcada en el programa Prácticas de campo. Modalidad II (2015/2016_OP4) del Campus de Excelencia Internacional Studii Salamantini. Consiste en la aplicación del videojuego La granja musical a 46 alumnos de primero y segundo de Educación Primaria del CEIP Santa Ana de Avila con la finalidad de recuperar la tradición popular del pasado, interpretarla en el presente y proyectarla hacia las nuevas …
Story beats in videogames as value-driven choice-based unit operations
2021
We present a framework of story beats, defined as microunits of dramatic action, as a tool for the ludonarrative analysis of videogames. First, we explain the Goal - Action - Reaction - Outcome model of the story beat. Then, we present six types of story beats, Action, Interaction, Inaction, Mental, Emotion, and Sensory, providing videogame examples for each category. In the second half of the paper, we contextualise this framework in the classic game studies theory of videogame narrative and player action: unit operations, gamic action, anatomy of choice, and game design patterns, wrapping it up in the most recent trends in cognitive narratology. Ultimately, we present the story beat as a …
Parental Attitudes toward Videogames at School
2019
Despite research having highlighted the positive outcomes of the use of videogames to learn, their integration into school contexts remains rare. Literature recognizes the importance of user’s technology acceptance to predict the intention to use and the adoption of new technology in several settings. So far, investigations have primarily focused on students’ and teachers’ opinions, while only a few studies have considered the role of parents. This study aimed to investigate the role of the dimensions of the technology acceptance model on parental preference (254 Italian parents) for the adoption of videogames in primary or secondary schools. Results revealed that 71% of the variance of par…
The effect of musical tempo on video game performance
2012
There is little research on music and audio in video games. What theory exists relies heavily upon borrowing concepts from similar fields such as film music. The empirical research conducted has been varied in scope, but small in number. This thesis explores the current state of theory and research in video game music and audio. In order to investigate if music can affect performance in a video game, an experiment was conducted. Participants were asked to play the popular video game Tetris multiple times to music of varying tempi. The performance of each participant for every game played was recorded and compared across the conditions. Although no statistically significant differences in pe…
From Games to Gamers: Poachers of Digital Realms
2021
Symposium held in Dijon on 19-20 November 2021, following on from the online symposium "Langauge and culture in videogames", bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives on how videogames are consumed, adapted and appropriated by gamers. The session on 19/11, held in English, focused on traditional academic presentations; the session on 20/11 offered two lectures in French aimed at a broader audience as well as the launch of a LocJam (game localisation competition) open to students working from English into the language of their choice.For the complete program, see https://sites.google.com/view/from-games-to-gamers
Psychometric analysis of the Test of Dependence of Videogames (TDV) in Peruvian population
2017
Resumen El objetivo del presente trabajo es validar en población peruana, el Test de Dependencia de Videojuegos (TDV) (Chóliz & Marco, 2011). Los resultados obtenidos demuestran que se trata de una herramienta confiable y válida. Se encontró una sola estructura factorial, en lugar de cuatro dimensiones, como plantearon los autores del TDV. Este factor podría denominarse genéricamente: adicción a videojuegos, y podría servir como evidencia de la existencia de este trastorno, que coincidiría con el denominado ‘Trastorno de Juego por Internet’, que aparece en la Sección III del DSM-5. Los resultados hallados se discuten en relación a lo planteado por Chóliz y Marco (2011), en lo que se refiere…