Supervised Places to Play

Safe and Secure Places to Live, Learn, and Play

Office of Adolescent Health | Website: http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/TAG Twitter: @TeenHealthGov Email: [email protected] “Schools, neighborhoods, and community settings can foster and support healthy adolescent development across the spectrum, including physical and mental health, social interactions, and cognitive growth. Adolescents also benefit from safe places to congregate, enjoy social, athle...

Computer Supported Cooperative Play, “Third Places” and Online Videogames

Recently, Microsoft and Sony have added network capabilities to their game consoles allowing real-time competitive and cooperative game play over the Internet. This paper reports on the initial stage of a study examining Microsoft’s Xbox Live, a system supporting computer supported cooperative play (CSCP) through voice communication and centralized identity management. In order to understand th...

Semi-supervised Learning for Identifying Players from Broadcast Sports Videos with Play-by-Play Information

Tracking and identifying players in sports videos filmed with a single moving pan-tilt-zoom camera has many applications, but it is also a challenging problem due to fast camera motions, unpredictable player movements, and unreliable visual features. Recently, [26] introduced a system to tackle this problem based on conditional random fields. However, their system requires a large number of lab...

Communities Creating Healthy Environments: improving access to healthy foods and safe places to play in communities of color.

The childhood obesity epidemic is a public health crisis that is having a particularly detrimental effect in racial and ethnic populations and in low-income communities across the U.S. Nationally, among youth ages 2 to 19, over 39% of Black and Latino and approximately 60% of American Indian youth are overweight or obese (Dalenius et al., 2012). Of the more than 9 million children from low-inco...

To play or not to play.