By combining physical activity and exposure to nature, green exercise can provide additional health benefits compared to physical activity alone. Immersive Virtual Environments (IVE) have emerged as a potentially valuable supplement to environmental and behavioral research, and might also provide new approaches to green exercise promotion. However, it is unknown to what extent green exercise in...

We have developed a syntactic approach to representing knowledge within the situation calculus using interval arithmetic. Knowledge was first incorporated into the situation calculus using a possible-worlds approach. Unfortunately, this previous approach is not amenable to easy implementation. This is because it is not clear how to specify the initial situation as the number of possible worlds ...

In the present study, side preferences in spontaneous visual exploration were assessed systematically in 27 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) and 17 age-matched controls. Assessment of initial visual exploration asymmetry (IVE) was based on the exploration of texture arrays requiring attentive oculomotor scanning. As shown in a previous study, most healthy subjects exhibit a ma...

This paper presents comparat ive fun experiments in the innovat ive playground ‘Playware’ which is a combinat ion of physical and virtual components for act ivat ing physical and social children’s play. For this purpose, a quant itat ive approach to entertainment modeling based on psychological studies in the field of computer games is int roduced. The paper invest igates quant itat ively how t...

In this study, we present a composite spatial manipulation framework for the redirected walking technique. The proposed focuses on utilizing two different approaches simultaneously to manipulate user’s position and orientation in physical space, aiming substantially improve their redirection confined space reduce special requirements RDW Each approach utilizes perceptual processes. first is dis...

This study expands the literature on high impact practices by assessing effect of global experiences, including international virtual exchange (IVE) and abroad, student success, measured as GPA, first-year retention, graduation rate. Our dataset tracks over 47,000 students 10 years at a large U.S. university. fixed effects models show that IVE studying abroad increase average GPA. Using logit m...

There once was a group of researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo called the Discourse and Narrative Research Group. Contrary to what the prototypical story opening to this review suggests, this group still exists, proof of which is their publishing a book of more than 500 pages (!) on deixis in narrative, studied from the perspective of cognitive science. The book is a colle...