This article presents an empirical study of the role of video game audio on performance. Twenty participants played The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii console for a 45-minute session on five consecutive days. Employing a repeated measures design, the authors exposed players to one orientation session and four sound conditions, i.e., silence, remote control sounds, remote control ...

Research on the development of virtual environments has been limited to date to universities due to the high cost of equipment and high-speed internet access. Applications of virtual environments using CAVE technology are numerous in medicine, architecture, military weapons systems, medicine, science research and business training. However, the cost of this emerging technology has prevented the...

Introduction INCITS/V2, the Information Technology Access Interfaces Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), is about to formally propose a standard for “the discovery, selection, operation, and substitution of user interfaces and options” [6] for everyday appliances. Their approach is similar to that of our personal universal controller...

While console support is one of the most mundane portions of an operating system, console access is critical, especially during system debugging and for some low-level system-administration operations. As a result, densely packed servers and server appliances have either keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) cabling and KVM switches or serial ports, cabling, and concentrators. Further increases in the den...

Interactive genetic algorithms are effective methods applied into the conceptual design of car console in order to better cater to the customer’s individualized demands for product design. In traditional interactive genetic algorithms, users’ fatigue problem restricts the population size. We propose individual fitness estimation method based on artificial neural network to reduce user fatigue p...

We present results from a multi-generational study of collocated group console gaming. We examine the intergenerational gaming practices of four generations of gamers, from ages 3 to 83 and, in particular, the roles that gamers of different generations take on when playing together in groups. Our findings highlight the extent to which existing gaming technologies are amenable to interactions wi...

Robotically assisted surgery stands to further revolutionize the medical field and provide patients with more effective healthcare. Most robotically assisted surgeries are teleoperated from the surgeon console to the patient where both ends of the system are located in the operating room. The challenge of surgical teleoperation across a long distance was already demonstrated through a wired com...

QUESTION Does exercise using a gaming console result in similar cardiovascular demand and energy expenditure as formally prescribed exercise in adults with cystic fibrosis? How do these patients perceive gaming console exercise? DESIGN Randomised cross-over trial with concealed allocation and intention-to-treat analysis. PARTICIPANTS 19 adults with cystic fibrosis admitted to hospital for t...