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November 4, 2024

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Dangers of the Metaverse and VR for US Youth Revealed in New Research

Oct. 22, 2024 — Research of online victimization in the metaverse is sorely lacking. A new study explored harm in the metaverse and VR devices among a sample of 5,005 U.S. teens aged 13 to 17. Findings show a significant percentage of youth reported harm in these ...

People Sympathize With Bullied AI Bots

Oct. 17, 2024 — In a new study, humans displayed sympathy towards and protected AI bots who were excluded from ...

Sharing Biosignals With Online Gaming Partners to Enhance a Mutual Sense of Social Presence Between Complete Strangers

Sep. 27, 2024 — Although interactive online platforms, including esports platforms, aim to foster close connections between people, they often fall short of supporting the creation of bonds between the interaction ...

Shrinking AR Displays Into Eyeglasses to Expand Their Use

Sep. 25, 2024 — Augmented reality (AR) takes digital images and superimposes them onto real-world views. But AR is more than a new way to play video games; it could transform surgery and self-driving cars. To make the technology easier to integrate into common ...

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Specially Designed Video Games May Benefit Mental Health of Children and Teenagers

Sep. 24, 2024 — Scientists conclude that some video games created as mental health interventions can be helpful -- if modest -- tools in improving the mental ...

PTSD Symptoms Can Be Reduced Through Treatment Including a Video Game

Sep. 20, 2024 — A single treatment session, which includes the video game Tetris, can reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This has been shown in a new study carried out with healthcare ...

Keep Devices out of Bed for Better Sleep

Sep. 3, 2024 — Despite what we've been led to believe, the timing of evening screen use, rather than the activity itself, negatively impacts youth sleep, a new study has ...

Video Gaming Improves Mental Well-Being, Landmark Study Finds

Aug. 27, 2024 — A new study on the causal relationship between video gaming and mental well-being challenges commonly held views about the effects of ...

Hydrogels Can Play Pong by 'Remembering' Previous Patterns of Electrical Simulation

Aug. 22, 2024 — Non-living hydrogels can play the video game Pong and improve their gameplay with more experience, researchers report. The researchers hooked ...

How Researchers Are Using Digital City-Building Games to Shape the Future

July 1, 2024 — Researchers have come up with exciting and sophisticated new mapping technology enabling future generations to get involved in creating their own future built landscape. They say that planners are ...

AI Recognizes Athletes' Emotions

June 17, 2024 — Using computer-assisted neural networks, researchers have been able to accurately identify affective states from the body language of tennis players during games. For the first time, they trained a ...

Great News, Parents: You Do Have Power Over Your Tweens' Screen Use

June 5, 2024 — For many parents, it can feel like curbing kids' screen use is a losing battle. But new research has found the parenting practices that work best to curb screen time and addictive screen behavior: ...

Virtual Reality Becomes More Engaging When Designers Use Cinematic Tools

May 14, 2024 — Cinematography techniques can significantly increase user engagement with virtual environments and, in particular, the aesthetic appeal of what users see in virtual ...

Researchers Develop a New Way to Instruct Dance in Virtual Reality

Apr. 29, 2024 — Virtual reality dance made easier with crowd wave technique. Open source code can be downloaded for Quest 2 and ...

Computer Game in School Made Students Better at Detecting Fake News

Apr. 24, 2024 — A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading ...

Super Mario Hackers' Tricks Could Protect Software from Bugs

Apr. 23, 2024 — Video gamers who exploit glitches in games can help experts better understand buggy software, students ...

Millions of Gamers Advance Biomedical Research

Apr. 15, 2024 — 4.5 million gamers around the world have advanced medical science by helping to reconstruct microbial evolutionary histories using a minigame included inside the critically and commercially ...

Virtual Reality Better Than Video for Evoking Fear, Spurring Climate Action

Mar. 18, 2024 — Depicting worst-case climate scenarios like expanding deserts and dying coral reefs may better motivate people to support environmental policies when delivered via virtual reality, according to a ...

Accessibility Toolkit for Game Engine Unity

Mar. 11, 2024 — New work makes it easier for game developers to implement game aids for people with disabilities. The toolkit focuses on players with visual ...

Going Top Shelf With AI to Better Track Hockey Data

Mar. 11, 2024 — Researchers got a valuable assist from artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help capture and analyze data from professional hockey games faster and more accurately than ever before, with big ...

Time Watching Videos May Stunt Toddler Language Development, but It Depends on Why They're Watching

Feb. 20, 2024 — A new study reveals that passive video use among toddlers can negatively affect language development, but their caregiver's motivations for exposing them to digital media could also lessen the ...

Do Violent Video Games Numb Us Towards Real Violence?

Jan. 16, 2024 — Neuroscientists have investigated whether playing violent video games leads to a reduction in human empathy. To do this, they had adult test subjects play a violent video game repeatedly over the ...

Artificial Intelligence Helps Unlock Advances in Wireless Communications

Jan. 11, 2024 — A new wave of communication technology is quickly approaching and researchers are now investigating ways to configure next-generation mobile ...

Giving Video Games This Christmas? New Research Underlines Need to Be Aware of Loot Box Risks

Dec. 20, 2023 — At-risk individuals, such as those with known gaming and gambling problems, are more likely to engage with loot boxes than those without. The study is the result of one of the largest, most complex ...

Interactive Screen Use Reduces Sleep Time in Kids

Dec. 13, 2023 — While screen time is generally known to affect sleep, new research suggests that interactive engagement, such as texting friends or playing video games, delays and reduces the time spent asleep to a ...

Children's Brains Shaped by Their Time on Tech Devices, Research to-Date Shows

Nov. 17, 2023 — Time spent watching television or playing computer games has measurable and long-term effects on children's brain function, according to a review of 23 years of neuroimaging research, which ...

Certain Online Games Use Dark Designs to Collect Player Data

Oct. 27, 2023 — The privacy policies and practices of online games contain dark design patterns which could be deceptive, misleading, or coercive to users, according to a new ...

Let It Flow: Recreating Water Flow for Virtual Reality

Sep. 20, 2023 — A research team has harnessed the power of deep reinforcement learning to replicate the flow of water when disturbed. The replication allowed for recreating water flow in real time based on only a ...

A System to Keep Cloud-Based Gamers in Sync

Aug. 31, 2023 — A new technique can synchronize media streams from different networks to multiple devices with less than 10 milliseconds of delay. The technique was demonstrated on cloud gaming, but could also be ...

Effectiveness of Video Gameplay Restrictions Questioned in New Study

Aug. 10, 2023 — Legal restrictions placed on the amount of time young people in China can play video games may be less effective than originally thought, a new study has ...

3D Display Could Soon Bring Touch to the Digital World

July 31, 2023 — Engineers have designed a new, shape-shifting display that can fit on a card table and allows users to draw 3D designs and ...

Board Games Are Boosting Math Ability in Young Children

July 7, 2023 — Board games based on numbers, like Monopoly, Othello and Chutes and Ladders, make young children better at math, according to a comprehensive review of research published on the topic over the last ...

Video Games Spark Exciting New Frontier in Neuroscience

June 14, 2023 — Researchers have used an algorithm from a video game to gain insights into the behavior of molecules within live brain cells. Researchers used coding tools to build an algorithm that is now used by ...

Tiny Video Capsule Shows Promise as an Alternative to Endoscopy

June 1, 2023 — While ingestible video capsule endoscopes have been around for many years, the capsules have been limited by the fact that they could not be controlled by physicians. They moved passively, driven ...