This work experiments with human motion initiated music generation. Here we present a stand-alone system to tag human motions readily into musical notes. We do this by first discovering the human skeleton using depth images acquired by infrared range sensors and then exploiting the resultant skeletal tracking. This realtime skeletal tracking is done using the videogame console Microsoft KinectT...

Despite its growth and prominence, product placement is generally under-researched and this is even more apparent in the area of placement in video gaming. This paper presents exploratory focus group research into this practice. Findings indicate that the introductory footage to a game provides placement opportunities with the highest level of recall, while peripheral non-action is the worst. I...

With a strong push from commercial ventures like Microsoft Xbox r © [23] and Sony Playstation r © [15], the multiplayer networked gaming industry continues to grow steadily. Multiplayer games have become an important element of entertainment in the networked age of today, due to their nature of allowing geographically dispersed players to participate in a single game. In order to provide intera...

The current mobile gaming market is filled with the socalled casual games. Simple and easy, these games are well suited for devices with limited resources and for people who play games now and then. This is why Tetris and Pac-man are among the best sellers games of several mobile games charts. In this paper we analyze current developing platforms, networking technologies, delivery models and ga...

OBJECTIVE To identify all reported cases of injury and other problems caused by using a Nintendo video gaming system. DESIGN Review. DATA SOURCES AND REVIEW METHODS Search of PubMed and Embase in June 2014 for reports on injuries and other problems caused by using a Nintendo gaming system. RESULTS Most of the 38 articles identified were case reports or case series. Injuries and problems r...

With a strong push from commercial ventures like Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation , the multiplayer networked gaming industry continues to grow steadily. Multiplayer games allow geographically dispersed players to participate in a single game and in order to provide interaction amongst players in such environments, text messaging and real-time voice through VoIP is used. However, such intera...

Multi-user electronic entertainment products have a unique set of requirements for the support of user awareness and information privacy. The level of support has a profound e ect on the gaming experience, and can result in the same game providing a very di erent experience on two di erent systems. The available support for these requirements depends largely on the structure of the gaming syste...

To investigate the consequences of COVID-19 lockdown on screen media use in children and adolescents with mental health problems, an online survey was conducted leisure before, during after spring 2020. Parents patients (10-18 yrs) referred to child adolescent psychiatry participated anonymous survey, approximately six weeks first easing measures. rated amount, content psychological impact thei...

Election forecasts have traditionally been based on representative polls, in which randomly sampled individuals are asked for whom they intend to vote. While representative polling has historically proven to be quite effective, it comes at considerable financial and time costs. Moreover, as response rates have declined over the past several decades, the statistical benefits of representative sa...