News articles tagged with 'game'
Use of interactive digital exercise games by children can result in high level of energy expenditure
— 8 Mar 2011 13:14 | HealthMiddle school-aged children who participated in interactive digital gaming activities that feature player movement (exergaming), such as dancing or boxing, increased their energy expenditure…
Queen's develops new brain training app for research into ageing minds
— 4 Mar 2011 14:20 | HealthResearchers at Queen's University Belfast are taking the first step towards discovering the true effectiveness of brain training exercises with the release of their own app aimed at…
Attraction by design: U of A researchers pique girls' interest in computing science
— 10 Feb 2011 19:52 | TechnologyA joint research project between the University of Alberta's Faculty of Education and the Department of Computing Science has found that, for high-school girls, the fun is in making…
Video games are good for girls - if parents play along
— 1 Feb 2011 20:51 | HealthDads who still haven't given up video games now have some justification to keep on playing - if they have a daughter…
New Pediatrics study identifies the risks, consequences of video game addiction
— 20 Jan 2011 16:25 | HealthParents may have good reason to be concerned about how much time their kids have been spending playing their new video games since the holidays. A new study by an international research…
Stanford researcher uses living cells to create 'biotic' video games
— 14 Jan 2011 15:32 | TechnologyVideo game designers are always striving to make games more lifelike, but they'll have a hard time topping what Stanford researcher Ingmar Riedel-Kruse is up to. He's introducing life…
Violent games not to blame for youth aggression
— 15 Dec 2010 18:32 | HealthHow depressed young people are strongly predicts how aggressive and violent they may be or may become. Contrary to popular belief, however, exposure to violence in video games or on…
How video games stretch the limits of our visual attention
— 18 Nov 2010 10:24 | HealthThey are often accused of being distracting, but recent research has found that action packed video games like Halo and Call of Duty can enhance visual attention, the ability that allows…
Tetris flashback reduction effect 'not common to all games'
— 11 Nov 2010 12:47 | TechnologyThe computer game Tetris may have a special ability to reduce flashbacks after viewing traumatic images not shared by other types of computer game, Oxford University scientists have…
Culturally inspired mobile phone games help Chinese children learn language characters
— 22 Oct 2010 20:38 | HealthMobile phone-based games could provide a new way to teach basic knowledge of Chinese language characters that might be particularly helpful in underdeveloped rural areas of China, say…