Search results for "digitaaliset pelit"

The Playful Affordances of Picture Book Apps for Children

2021

The tradition of children’s literature has evolved side by side with the market of children’s entertainment, games, and toys. The selection of contemporary print products includes a wide variety of materially or technologically enhanced picture books. This background is rarely considered in the examination of children’s book applications that have attracted scholarly interest after the arrival of smartphones and tablets during the early 2010s.The relationship between picture book apps, mobile games, and digital playthings requires further examination that considers the specific affordances of the mobile platform. Leaning on five case studies, this article examines how picture book apps affo…

Children's peer interaction while playing the digital emotion detectives game

2018

Collaborative learning and collaborative use of digital technologies are essential skills in the twenty-first century. The aim of this study was to explore the features and types of interaction that can be identified during children’s digital gameplay while playing in pairs. The following research questions were addressed: 1) What are the interactional play features that characterize the play sessions? 2) Which play types can be identified based on these interactional play features? 3) How do the interactional features and play types change during the eight-week play period? In this study, 16 children aged 5–6 years played the Emotion Detectives (ED) game in pairs at day care centres for 15…

Miten vaikuttaa mielikuviin, asenteisiin, identiteettiin ja uskomuksiin viihteellisen tieteen ja pelien avulla?

2017

Tiivistelmä Tutkielman tarkoituksena oli kyetä osoittamaan, miten vaikutetaan mielikuviin, asenteisiin, identiteettiin viihteellisen tieteen ja pelien avulla. Teoriaosuudessa avattiin oppimisen ja pelien käsitteitä sekä pelien vaikutusta aivojen toimintaan ja siihen syvimpään oppimisen tilaan, jota Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ensimmäisenä kutsui flow –tilaksi. Teoriaosuuden ja tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli myös herättää jatkopohdintoja varten kysymys siitä, onko faktojen opettaminen tärkeämpää kuin maailmankuviin, identiteetin rakentamiseen ja mielikuviin vaikuttaminen emotionaalisen vaikuttamisen kautta. Teoriaosuudessa käsiteltiin myös viihteellisen tieteen tuotantojen vaikuttavuutta mitannei…

Narrative Tools for Games : Focalization, Granularity, and the Mode of Narration in Games

2015

This article looks at three narratological concepts—focalization, granularity, and the mode of narration—and explores how these concepts apply to games. It is shown how these concepts can be used as tools for creating meaning-effects, which are understood here as cognitive responses from the player. Focalization is shown to have a hybrid form in games. This article also explores the different types of narrators and granularities in games, and how these three concepts can be used to create meaning-effects. This is done by discussing examples from several games, for example, Assassin’s Creed III, Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, and Civilization.

The Emotion Detectives Game: Supporting the Social-emotional Competence of Young Children

2017

The potential of digital games to enhance learning in different areas of child development has drawn increasing interest amid growing concern about children’s emotional well-being, social-emotional difficulties, and problem behaviors alongside diminishing economic resources for intervention and habilitation. However, digital games designed to promote social-emotional competence are surprisingly scarce. In this chapter, we explore children’s use of the digital game Emotion Detectives (ED), designed to promote children’s acquisition of emotional knowledge skills (e.g., recognizing, appreciating, and understanding emotions and their expressions), prosocial behaviors (e.g., helping, sharing, co…

Continuous play : leisure engagement in competitive fighting games and taekwondo

2023

In order to better understand the development of play and games in modern lives, this article examines two competitive leisure groups: digital fighting game players and traditional taekwondo practitioners. Drawing on qualitative offline/online interviews (n = 56) and close reading of externally documented life narratives (n = 14), we explore how the modes and motives of engagement fluctuate in competitive players over time. The study provides a new developmental approach to continuous competitive play as leisure. Our results show rather than making linear progress from ‘casual’ to ‘serious’ leisure, individuals in both groups perceive their lasting relationships with these activities gradua…

Investigating the effectiveness of a digital game-based task on the acquisition of word knowledge

2020

This study investigates the probable effect of a digital game-based vocabulary learning (DGBVL) task on the acquisition of some components of a word knowledge framework. In so doing, 124 Persian speakers (56 males and 68 females) were randomly assigned to either a control or an experimental group. The experimental group participants completed a DGBVL task for acquiring ten low-frequent inanimate object names, or lexical nouns, by playing a commercial adventure game. The control group participants practiced the same words in a fill-in-the-blank vocabulary acquisition exercise. In brief, first, all participants sat for a word-checklist and a proficiency test; next, they completed their tasks,…

"Mä koitan olla kutsumatta niit infectedeiks koska anglismi" : code-switching in Finnish online gaming videos

2014

Videopalvelu YouTubessa julkaistavista Let's Play-pelivideoista on tullut muutaman viime vuoden aikana todella suosittuja niin Suomessa kuin muuallakin maailmassa. Pelivideot yhdistävät YouTuben yhteisöllisyyden ja yksilön mahdollisuuden luoda sisältöä videopelien interaktiivisuuteen ja elokuvallisuuteen. Tutkielmani keskittyy suomalaisen nuoren miehen tekemiin pelivideoihin, joissa pelataan vuonna 2013 julkaistua toimintaroolipeliä the Last of Us ja samalla kommentoidaan videopelin tapahtumia. Videopelin toimintakieli on englanti: mm. pelin valikot, dialogi ja ohjeet ovat englanninkielisiä. Videoissa pelaaja kommentoi pelin tapahtumia suomeksi, mutta käyttää puheessaan myös runsaasti engla…

Kohut ja moraalipaniikit pelimedian kulttuurisina siirtymäriitteinä

2018

Exergaming usage : hedonic and utilitarian aspects

2017

There is a growing demand for information systems (IS) that could advance desirable health behaviours among people. While digital gaming has generally been perceived to increase individuals’ sedentary time, gaming can also act as a medium to promote health, for example, by increasing individuals’ levels of physical activity. Exergaming, a form of digital gaming that combines games with physical activity, has been mentioned as potential means of influencing physical activity levels. Previous research on exergaming has been dominated by a very device-centric perspective, focusing more on its technological and physical aspects, than a more user-centric perspective that focuses on the users and…