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Increasingly digital games are being played multiplayer online, not just massively multiplayer games but normal PC and console games. An important constituent of the gaming experience is the social relationships between players as mediated by games. Social presence is the foundation of this experience, being the extent to which players feel present to each other within the virtual environment. ...

A nationally representative study of video game play among adolescents in the United States showed that 97% of adolescents aged 12 to 17 years play computer, web, and portable (or console) video games (Lenhart et al., 2008). We hypothesized that if people play games as a regular exercise regime, gaming will correlate with an improvement in their cognitive skills. For this experiment, a few game...

Despite tremendous popularity of video games, there have been concerns about their detrimental effects on children. The game rating systems were developed to assist parents in monitoring their children’s gaming experiences. This paper explores how parents in Iran, as a society without established media rating systems, control their children’s gaming experiences. Mixed methods of semi-structured...

Researchers debate the role of installed base, platform quality and consumer expectations in driving the success of platforms. We analyze a dynamic model in which a new entrant with superior quality competes with an incumbent platform, and examine the long-run market outcomes. We find that the driver of market dynamics depends critically on the strength of indirect network effects and the consu...

Postural control disorders are among the most frequent motor disorder symptoms associated with multiple sclerosis. This study aims to demonstrate the potential improvements in postural control among patients with multiple sclerosis who complete a telerehabilitation program that represents a feasible alternative to physical therapy for situations in which conventional treatment is not available....

This study analyzes the effects gender and race have on the hostility towards and acknowledgement of issues women face in the gaming community. After prompting the gaming community with stimulus material that voices a feminist perspective, the study attempted to see how different profile pictures (White male, White female, Black male, Black female) affected responses. In other words, the study ...

Although there is a growing body of work surrounding gender and digital games (Bryce and Rutter, 2006; Crawford and Gosling 2005; Yates and Littleton, 1999), the separate but related area regarding the sexuality of players has yet to receive a serious amount of attention (Bertozzi, 2009; Sunden 2008). In this paper, I wish to contribute to this area through an analysis of the representation of ...

OBJECTIVE To verify the effect of an intervention protocol using virtual reality (VR) on the motor performance and balance of a child with cerebral palsy (CP). CASE DESCRIPTION To comply with the proposed objectives, a 7-year old child with spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy (cP), GMFcS level I, was submitted to a physiotherapy intervention protocol of 12 45-minute sessions, twice a week, usin...

This paper presents traffic analyses for Xbox System Link traffic. The goal of this analyses is to create a traffic model for Xbox traffic that can be used for network evaluation purposes. Traffic characteristics observed were: packet length, packet inter-arrival times, packets per second (PPS) and data rates. We found that System Link traffic is very periodic. Servers send update packets every...