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Defining Role-Playing Games as Language-Games
2011
Role-playing games are a diverse phenomenon, ranging from digital games to live action role-playing. Finding a definition that suits them all is hard, but attempts have been many. All of the definitions emphasize some aspects of role-playing games like rules, the role of players or the story. Many definitions do not describe role-playing games as such, but the activity that is role-playing. This paper looks at one of the latest attempts to define role-playing games, by Hitchens and Drachen (2009), and shows some potential problems with it. As an answer to these problems another definition is proposed, consisting of a game world, participants, shared narrative power and interaction. This def…
"Rotaļspēle kā 5-7 gadus vecu bērnu sociālo prasmju veicinātāja"
2016
Darba autore: Eva Liepiņa Darba zinātniskā vadītāja: Dr.psyh., prof. Lūcija Rutka Darba apjoms: 52 lpp., 13 attēli, 1 tabula, 24 literatūras vienības, 5 pielikumi. Darba mērķis: izpētīt vecākā pirmsskolas vecuma bērnu sociālo prasmju veidošanos rotaļspēles darbībā. Problēmas būtība: Pirmsskolas periodā bērniem problēmas sagādā nepietiekami attīstītas sociālās prasmes. Problēmas sagādā uzturēt kārtībā vietu, kur bērns rotaļājas, apģērbu, savstarpējo attiecību veidošana, kā arī patstāvīga sava darba organizēšana. Rotaļas darbībā bērnos veidojas emocijas, pārdzīvojumi, kā arī attīstās sociālās prasmes. Pētījuma metodes: teorētiskā metode, empīriskā metode. Darba rezultāti: Bērnu sociālās prasm…
"The toenails on the other hand never grow at all" : the functions of wordplay in Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
2015
Huumori on hyvin yleisesti käytetty tehokeino niin arkisessa kielenkäytössä kuin populaarikulttuurissa ja kirjallisuudessakin. Yhtenä huumorin lajina voidaan pitää erilaisia sanaleikkejä, joissa leikitellään kielen monitulkintaisuudella. Sanaleikeissä on usein kaksi, tai jopa useampi, merkityksen taso, joiden yhtäaikainen ymmärtäminen johtaa sanaleikin tajuamiseen. Tom Stoppardin vuoden 1966 näytelmä Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead on tunnettu absurdi komedia, jossa esiintyy reilusti sanaleikkejä, joten se soveltuu erityisen hyvin juuri tämänkaltaisen huumorin tarkasteluun. Tässä näytelmässä Shakespearen Hamletin sivuhenkilöt Rosencrantz ja Guildenstern ovat päähenkilöinä omassa tarin…
¿Quién está buscando su mejor versión? Coaching y psicología deportiva en el proceso de terapeutización de (y desde) el golf
2020
This article asks about the expansion of psychological, therapeutic and self-enhancement ethos through the networks and devices that configures middle and upper-middle classes, and about the ways in which this process is singled out starting from the encounter between coaching and psychology paradigms with golf fans, in contemporary Argentina. The empirical materials that support the analysis have been ethnographically produced from the interaction with golf players and coaches.
Constructing co-presence through shared VR gameplay
2021
This study analyzes how participants playing VR games construct co-presence and shared gameplay. The analysis focuses on instances of play where one person is wearing the VR equipment, and other participants are located nearby without the ability to directly interact with the game. We first show how the active player using the VR equipment draws on talk and embodied activity to signal their presence in the shared physical environment, while simultaneously conducting actions in the virtual space, and thus creates spaces for the other participants to take part in gameplay. Second, we describe how other participants draw on the contextual configurations of the moment in displaying co-presen…
Maturation of Epidermal Langerhans Cells In Vitro Is Accompanied by Downregulation of 4F2 (CD98) as Determined by Differential Display
1998
Following short-term culture, Langerhans cells mature morphologically and functionally into potent immunostimulatory cells. As regulation of gene expression accompanies this maturation process, it is likely that differentially expressed genes are involved in the maturation events. Using the recently described method of differential display, we generated cDNA expression patterns starting with mRNA of murine epidermal Langerhans cells isolated either directly (fLC) or following 3 d cultivation (cLC). Five hundred putative differentially expressed cDNA fragments were recovered from the gel. For a part of the fragments differential expression was confirmed by dot blot and Southern hybridization…
Sports teams as complex adaptive systems: manipulating player numbers shapes behaviours during football small-sided games
2016
Small-sided and conditioned games (SSCGs) in sport have been modelled as complex adaptive systems. Research has shown that the relative space per player (RSP) formulated in SSCGs can impact on emergent tactical behaviours. In this study we adopted a systems orientation to analyse how different RSP values, obtained through manipulations of player numbers, influenced four measures of interpersonal coordination observed during performance in SSCGs. For this purpose we calculated positional data (GPS 15 Hz) from ten U-15 football players performing in three SSCGs varying in player numbers (3v3, 4v4 and 5v5). Key measures of SSCG system behaviours included values of (1) players’ dispersion, (2) …
LA INCLUSIÓN DEL MÉDICO EN LA FORMACIÓN DEL INTÉRPRETE EN EL ÁMBITO SANITARIO
2017
La experiencia docente que describimos en este artículo propone la adquisición y desarrollo de destrezas interpretativas a través de cuatro sesiones teórico-prácticas sobre interpretación en los servicios públicos (ISP). Su particularidad reside en integrar a un profesional del ámbito médico-sanitario en el proceso de aprendizaje, que se perfecciona mediante role plays en el aula. Su colaboración desinteresada, activa y participativa estuvo presente desde la elección de los casos que se abordaron en clase derivados de sus experiencias con pacientes extranjeros, hasta la asunción del papel que habitualmente desempeñan en su trabajo en los ejercicios de simulación con los alumnos. La interacc…
Yhteisöllinen argumentointi sosionomikoulutuksessa avoimia ongelmia ratkottaessa
2017
The aim of this study was to develop teaching methods for practising argumentative problem-solving in a degree program of social services. The purpose was to acquire knowledge about multiple (face-to-face, online, and integrated) learning environments for studying argumentative problem-solving. In addition, the typical features of collaborative argumentation in student discussions were identified. Two teaching experiments were arranged in courses on drug and alcohol abuse. Both experiments required students to solve open-ended problems through role-play regarding a fictive girl’s use of alcohol. The idea of blended learning was applied in the first teaching experiment. Students (n = 29) wro…
Growing the practice of vocal sketching
2015
Sketch-thinking in the design domain is a complex representational activity, emerging from the reflective conversation with the sketch. A recent line of research on computational support for sound design has been focusing on the exploitation of voice, and especially vocal imitations, as effective representation strategy for the early stage of the design process. A set of introductory exercises on vocal sketching, to probe the communication effectiveness of vocal imitations for design purposes, are presented and discussed, in the scope of the research-through-design workshop activities of the EU project SkAT-VG