The growing popularity of game-based learning reflects the burning desire for exploiting the involving and motivating characteristics of games for serious purposes. A wide range of arguments for using games for teaching and learning can be encountered in scientific papers, policy reports, game reviews and advertisements. With contagious enthusiasm, the proponents of game-based learning make the...

background: the rapid growth of computer games, has taken a major part of teenagers leisure time. the improper and overuse of these games, can be considered as physical, mental and social threats. the goal of this study was to determine the relationship between playing computer games and students’ aggression and academic progress.   methods: in this cross- sectional study, 292 students in grade...

We have considered a simple word game called the wordmorph. After making our participants play a stipulated number of wordmorph games, we have analysed the experimental data. We have given a detailed analysis of the learning involved in solving this word game. We propose that people are inclined to learn landmarks when they are asked to navigate from a source to a destination. We note that thes...

background: hemophilia is a chronic bleeding disease and can interfere with daily performance of children. these children require continuous training to prevent bleeding. since children nurses play an important role in the education of sick children and their self-efficacy and the increase use of educational computer games, the use of educational games for teaching self-efficacy to children wit...

We develop a taxonomy for guesser and clue-giver dialogue moves in word guessing games. The taxonomy is designed to aid in the construction of a computational agent capable of participating in these games. We annotate the word guessing game of the multimodal Rapid Dialogue Game (RDG) corpus, RDG-Phrase, with this scheme. The scheme classifies clues, guesses, and other verbal actions as well as ...

This paper explores humour recognition for Twitter-based hashtag games. Given their popularity, frequency, and relatively formulaic nature, these games make a good target for computational humour research and can leverage Twitter likes and retweets as humour judgments. In this work, we use pairwise relative humour judgments to examine several measures of semantic relatedness between setups and ...

A prefix normal word is a binary word with the property that no substring has more 1s than the prefix of the same length. This class of words is important in the context of binary jumbled pattern matching. In this paper we present results about the number pnw(n) of prefix normal words of length n, showing that pnw(n) = Ω ( 2n−c √ n lnn ) for some c and pnw(n) = O ( 2(lnn) n ) . We introduce eff...

We extend the concept of a synchronizing word from finitestate automata (DFA) to nested word automata (NWA): A well-matched nested word is called synchronizing if it resets the control state of any configuration, i.e., takes the NWA from all control states to a single control state. We show that although the shortest synchronizing word for an NWA, if it exists, can be (at most) exponential in t...

The article is devoted to the study of composite rhyming compounds as a means of word formation games. It explores the place of this category of words in the lexical system and peculiarities of their use in the Russian and English languages. Authors of the article represent compound words as a special lexical subgroup. On the specific publicistic material are revealed the peculiarities of compo...

The problem of solvability of infinite games is closely connected with the classical question of uniformization of relations by functions of a given class. We work out this connection and discuss recent results on infinite games that are motivated by the uniformization problem. The fundamental problem in the effective theory of infinite games was posed by Church in 1957 (“Church’s Problem”; see...