OBJECTIVE Television and computer game consumption are a powerful influence in the lives of most children. Previous evidence has supported the notion that media exposure could impair a variety of behavioral characteristics. Excessive television viewing and computer game playing have been associated with many psychiatric symptoms, especially emotional and behavioral symptoms, somatic complaints,...

Virtual Sports Teacher is a Serious Ga me which is being developed by sports scientists, computer scientists an d media scientists, funded by the HM WK (hessian Ministry of science and art). The primary target group of the gam e are physical education teacher st udents. In the gam e they can practice the procedure of a typical sport lesson, learn how to tr eat pupils and arrange different sport...

During SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, several events were carried out to allow academia and industry experts to share their views and experiences with respect to computer graphics education. In this Special Section,we highlight the outcomes of one of these events, namely the Education Papers section of the Educators Program. A total of 43 papers were submitted to the Educators Program, and 17 of these pap...

BACKGROUND Care and support of children with physical or mental disabilities are accompanied with serious concerns for parents, families, healthcare institutions, schools, and their communities. Recent studies and technological innovations have demonstrated the feasibility of providing therapy and rehabilitation services to children supported by computer games. OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper...

Increases of the Internet users have drastically increased the number of media via which companies promote their products. One of such media are computer games. This paper investigates the perception of secondary school students as to the ads appearing in the games as well as their opinions and the experience they have gathered up to now regarding the advertising in the computer games. The firs...