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November 20, 2024
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Nov. 18, 2024 It turns out gaming is good for you! New research indicates massive multiplayer online gamers learn by gaming and their skills in the workplace are enriched by those seemingly endless hours previously thought of as frittering away ...
Oct. 31, 2024 A video game in which participants herded virtual cattle has furthered our understanding of how humans make decisions on movement and navigation, and it could help us not only interact more effectively with artificial intelligence, but even improve ...
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 ...
Oct. 17, 2024 In a new study, humans displayed sympathy towards and protected AI bots who were excluded from ...
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Nov. 6, 2024 Researchers have added a new dimension to the mathematics used to predict the outcomes of all manner of competitions, including sports, games and ...
Sep. 27, 2024 Although interactive online platforms, including esports platforms, aim to foster close connections between people, they often fall short of ...
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 ...
Sep. 24, 2024 Scientists conclude that some video games created as mental health interventions can be helpful -- if modest -- tools in improving the mental ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aug. 22, 2024 Non-living hydrogels can play the video game Pong and improve their gameplay with more experience, researchers report. The researchers hooked ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Apr. 29, 2024 Virtual reality dance made easier with crowd wave technique. Open source code can be downloaded for Quest 2 and ...
Apr. 24, 2024 A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading ...
Apr. 23, 2024 Video gamers who exploit glitches in games can help experts better understand buggy software, students ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jan. 11, 2024 A new wave of communication technology is quickly approaching and researchers are now investigating ways to configure next-generation mobile ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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