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Nichols, Randall James. "The games people play : a political economic analysis of video games and their production /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3201695.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-252). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Wong, Chi-hang, and 王志恆. "The localization of Japanese video games in Taiwan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/197549.
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The aim of this research lies in the study of how Japanese console videos games have been re-territorialized into Taiwan in Taiwanese context. Since making its debut in 1970s, video game industry has developed into a multi-billion dollar business in which Japanese console and game developers have been the pioneers. Academic studies on video games, however, had been largely focusing on the physical and mental affection of video game playing, and it is until recent years that video game has begun to be analyzed as a cultural product. Looking to fill the research space of how video games have been consumed and received under different geographical and social contexts, this research examine show Taiwanese, the former colonial subjects of Japan, localize Japanese console video games through measures during the process of production, re-production, circulation, and consumption in the context of Taiwanese society. Attention has been particularly paid to Taipei City Mall, where gamer gatherings of a Japanese video game had been regularly held. Through intensive participatory observation on the gathering and in-depth case studies on a few selected personalities, the author will show how a Japanese cultural good is being re-territorialized under an alien social context. The thesis then argues a new paradigm, in which the individual desire is considered as equally important with other mediation factors, should be adopted in conceptualizing the migration of a cultural good.<br>published_or_final_version<br>Modern Languages and Cultures<br>Doctoral<br>Doctor of Philosophy
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Hamidi, Bijan Alexander. "An Analysis of Virtual Economics in Video Games." Thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10808086.
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<p> Bijan Hamidi explores economic systems in video games and expands on the definition of virtual economics to include economic behavior. Gamers commonly look to gain advantages over their opposition during game play. This thesis performs an analysis of how those decisions are constructed and provides insight on where economic principles are found in game play. </p><p> This body of work is based upon preexisting virtual economic works from Edward Castronova, Zachary Simpson, and Richard Bartle. However, this work does not focus purely on economic markets, but extends to study economic behavior exhibited during play.</p><p>
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Dupont, Florian. "Les marqueurs des univers fictifs populaires : outils stratégiques du marketing, de l’économie et de la consommation des fictions audiovisuelles de divertissement (1995-2015)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA099/document.
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Films, séries télévisées ou jeux vidéo, les fictions audiovisuelles populaires encouragent et alimentent la consommation de produits culturels variés, apparentés instinctivement à un univers fictif, une marque, un genre ou une organisation spécifique. L’analyse de ce réflexe au moment de la réception permet de mettre au jour les mécanismes établissant les liens entre les œuvres, au moyen du concept central de marqueur, élément en apparence anodin dans la fiction mais fondant une allusion compréhensible sous certaines conditions. L’étude des stratégies de réduction du risque mises en place par les organisations produisant les fictions audiovisuelles montre que les marqueurs jouent un rôle essentiel dans la conception, la production et la mise sur le marché de ces produits culturels, sans en garantir systématiquement le succès, difficilement mesurable. Ces stratégies autorisent, voire encouragent un usage et une appropriation ludique des marqueurs qui conditionnent l’exploration des univers fictifs (parfois génériques) de la culture populaire par ses publics, et sa réutilisation par ses créateurs<br>Be they video games, movies or TV shows, popular audiovisual fictions encourage the consumption of diverse cultural works, instinctively linked to a specific fictitious universe, brand, genre or organisation. Analyzing this audience’s reflex leads to the inner working of how cultural products are linked together, thanks to an apparently innocuous element which indeed supports an allusion. This marker, as we will call it, can be understood as such only under certain conditions. When it is, it can play a central role in the risk-reduction strategies implemented by entertainment industries during the design, production and marketing of mainstream fictions, with no guarantees of of a success that can hardly be summed up by box-office numbers. These strategies, in turn, promote a playful use of markers in fictions, allowing the audience’s exploration of popular culture universes, and their recycled use as allusions by creative teams in the TV show, film and video game industries
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Pelurson, Gaspard. "Queer quests : journeying through manifestations of queerness in video games." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/78270/.
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This thesis focuses on the various manifestations of queerness in video games, and investigates how video games' queer potential connects and clashes with LGBTQ politics, as well as with gaming culture and hegemonic masculinity. Through the lens of queer theory, I adopt two main angles of approach. Firstly, I concentrate on video game characters and study them as vessels of queer politics. Focusing on two game characters, and their reception within gaming communities, I explore the limits and potentials of the queer politics in video games. As such, despite the prevalence of heteronormative values in video game narratives, I argue that some game characters embody unexpected vessels of queer hope. Expanding upon this argument, this thesis moves away from queer characters and interrogates the inherent queerness of games themselves. In doing so, I delve into multiple choice dialogue systems and forms of ‘aimless' game exploration, and argue that games can enfold the player in a queer, timeless bubble where alternative possibilities loom on the horizon. As such, I argue that the player escapes from normative time structures and freely articulates game time and space. In this way, these sequences occur in a queer temporality which runs counter to core game mechanics, such as achievements and rewards. Extending this queering of game, I finally argue that particular counternormative gaming practices, such as intentionally losing, celebrate the failure of heteromasculinity both inside and outside gaming culture. In this way, and throughout this thesis, I argue that video games operate as a multidimensional medium, providing various instances where queerness manifests itself. While I demonstrate that some of these instances can be found in other popular media such as cinema and literature, I argue that video game queerness also takes unique shapes that are exclusive to the medium. As such, I suggest that video games, as a polysemic medium, gleam with queer potentiality, and are pioneers in revealing new queer embodiments.
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Li, King-lun, and 李景麟. "Nintendo revolution: what is happening in videogame industry and individuals." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44676670.
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Munir, Sundas, and Mirza Sanam Iqbal Baig. "Challenges and Security Aspects of Blockchain Based Online Multiplayer Games." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för informationsteknologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38771.
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Video gaming has always been a blooming industry. With the emergence of online multi- player video games , this industry’s worth have sky rocketed. Online multiplayer video games store data of player’s credentials, in-game progress, in-game virtual assets and payment details etc. Which mean security threats to these systems are nothing new and securing these games have always meant to protect player’s data from unauthorized breach. Integration of Blockchain technology in online multiplayer video games apart from other amazing features, provides a way to prove digital ownership of virtual assets with their verifiable scarcity. Trade of these in-game virtual assets have always been a goal for online multiplayer gaming companies, but there was none enough trust-able infrastructure available which can be relied on. Blockchain just solved that problem. It provided a platform for these asset’s secure and transparent transaction between players. Topic for our research not only consider the security challenges in online games but specifi- cally blockchain based online multiplayer games. This adaptation is still new and there is need of consideration of new security challenges. In this dissertation we try to bring out some important challenges related to security of blockchain based online multiplayer video games. There are currently no studies around security concerns and challenges of the integration of the online multiplayer video games in the emerging blockchain systems. In order to fill in the gap, this dissertation discusses and identifies two main security concerning questions related to this domain. Also this dissertation provides basic steps for expanding future research and application in this joint domain.
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Chambers, Christopher. "Addressing Cheating and Workload Characterization in Online Games." PDXScholar, 2006. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2669.
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The Internet has enabled the popular pastime of playing video games to grow rapidly by connecting game players in disparate locations. However, with popularity have come the two challenges of hosting a large number of users and detecting cheating among users. For reasons of control, security, and ease of development, the most popular system for hosting on-line games is the client server architecture. This is also the most expensive and least scalable architecture for the game publisher, which drives hosting costs upwards with the success of the game. In addition to the expense of hosting, as a particular game grows more competitive and popular, the incentive to cheat for that game grows as well. All popular online games suffer from cheats in one form or another, and this cheating adversely affects game popularity and growth.
In this dissertation we follow a hypothetical game company (GameCorp) as it surmounts challenges involved in running an on-line game. We develop a characterization of gamer habits and game workloads from data sampled over a period of years, and show the benefits and drawbacks of multiplexing online applications together in a single large server farm. We develop and evaluate a geographic redirection service for the public server architecture to match clients with servers. We show how the public server game architecture can be used to scalably host large persistent games such as massively multiplayer (MMO) games that previously used the client server architecture. Finally we develop a taxonomy for client cheating in on-line games to focus research efforts, and specifically treat one of the categories in detail: information exposure in peer-to-peer games.
The thesis of this dissertation is: a methodology for accurate usage modeling of server resources can improve workload management; public-server resources can be leveraged in new ways to serve multiplayer on-line games; and that information exposure in peer-to-peer on-line games is preventable or detectable with the adoption of cryptographic protocols.
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Kim, Jung K. "The influence of flow experience on video games and agression." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1371467.
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The relationships between violent content and aggression have not been fully understood and explained in video game research literature. This study sought to determine if video game players" flow experience--a psychological absorption—explains the aggression that can follow video game playing. Employing a survey, this project sought to determine if relationships existed among degrees of violence portrayed in video games, degrees of flow experience, and subsequent aggressive attitudes after gaming. In this study, it was determined that a player's flow experience is more strongly correlated with aggression than is the violent content of video games. Moreover, contradicting the common belief that the video game companies make more profit by increasing the quantity of violent content, there is actually no significant relationship between violence and purchase of video games. However, along the same lines of Hoffman and Novak (1977), this study discovered an increase in purchasing intent related to flow experiences in video games.<br>Department of Telecommunications
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Chan, Holing Sarah, and 陳可苓. "The associations between video gaming, sleep, and neuropsychological functioning in Hong Kong children." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/209534.
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This study examined the associations between video gaming, sleep, and neuropsychological functioning. A total of 143 mother-children dyads were included in the study. The children’s neurocognitive functions were measured using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children– Fourth Edition (Hong Kong), the Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch), and the Grooved Pegboard Test. Sleep quality was measured by the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Problematic behaviors were measured using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). It was found that (1) more video gaming was associated with poorer subjective sleep quality and shorter total bed time, but not any actual reported sleep time or any domains of problematic sleep in children, (2) playing video games before bed was not associated with more sleep problems in children, (3) children with more sleep problems were perceived to have more internalizing and externalizing behaviors, (4) sleep problem was negatively associated with tests of perceptual reasoning abilities, and had a moderating effect on the relationship between video-gaming and a hand-eye coordination task. Results implied video gaming might not be predominantly bad for children, and the use of it as a training tool must target specific cognitive skills in order to be effective. Children’s sleep problems should be part of a clinical computation and adequately addressed.<br>published_or_final_version<br>Clinical Psychology<br>Master<br>Master of Social Sciences
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Yakobi, Maxine J. "The Economic and Behavioral Success of Riot Games In an Undifferentiated Video Game Market." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/349.
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The vast success of Riot Games is relatively undisputed amongst financial analysts as well as online communities despite there being little information publicly available that specifically addresses how their game has differentiated itself in a homogenous market. Additionally, there is little information that addresses the opportunity cost of paying money for components within this specific server for advantages within the game. I believe there to be something functionally unique about Riot’s business in particular that allows for it to acquire steady fiscal growth from people investing their money into effectively a “free” online game and I would like to explore what that is.
Therefore I wish to answer the question of why is it that Riot, despite having a relatively undifferentiated product within the MOBA game industry, exceeds all other companies in both player commitment and financial investment to their free-to-play product.
My surveys will aim to address the reasons why players choose to invest both their time and money into the game and shed more light on the efficacy of the incentive structures in place. Through survey data and information gained through interviews I will form base comparisons between player preferences and then track the incentive structures across the MOBA industry.
Using comparative analysis between the player-reported incentives which drive their behavior, the information gained through conducting personal interviews with Riot Representatives, and careful analysis of consumer trends with regards to League of Legends and the eSports franchise as designed by the Riot Games industry, I will attempt to find correlations between the player’s perceptions of Riot’s product and the incentives within the game. If consumption and growth patterns show correlations to the growth exhibited by the company that prove to be significant when compared with player preferences, those points could potentially explain the success that Riot has seen over the duration of the past five years of the company’s existence.
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Sutterfield, Curtis T. "The relationship between video game user and character." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1337637.
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This thesis identifies and explores the types of communication modes that exist in video games. Different types of communication are identified and discussed based on Frye's audience centered theory of modes. The inferior communication mode, the mimetic communication mode, the leader-centered communication mode, the romantic communication mode, and the mythical communication mode are all explained. A convenience sample of six video game players were interviewed about video games. An analysis of their self-identification statements revealed that players seek a high level of romantic communication when playing video games. The romantic communication mode makes the video game world an idealized place where the players are able to manipulate their circumstances or show more intelligence than the user in reality. Uses of the communication modes are also explained.<br>Department of Telecommunications
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Zhu, Jun Chao. "The evolution of official media reports on video games :a case study of the People's Daily." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953768.
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Hayes, James A. "Fiscal impacts of the Olympic Games : a comparative analysis of 1984 Los Angeles and 1996 Atlanta." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24113.
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Răzman, Diana Cristina. "Press ‘F’ to pay respects : Grief and memorialization in video games." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-20098.
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This paper aims to present, discuss, and analyze the potential role of digital games within practices of memory, bereavement, and inheritance. The paper examines how users inhabit game environments, how their in-game memories and identities extend into the real world, and what kind of digital legacy players may be leaving behind. A study based on theoretical frameworks relating to memorialization and grief processing is conducted to look at how games can become part of mourning and memorialization practices.
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Yu, Shu. "Internet gaming disorder :its assessment and interplay with need satisfaction, maladaptive cognitions, and cognitive-behavioral skills." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953562.
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Kidd, Stan. "Investigation of the use of video games to detect alcohol-impaired performance." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41549.
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The objective of the present study was to investigate the use of a video game task in comparison to _a pursuit tracking task for the purpose of· detecting alcohol impairment. To carry out this objective, the two tasks used in this study were compared for difficulty in Phase I. The conclusions from Phase I are: 1) that subjects selected higher RPM's to represent a higher level of difficulty, and 2) that the higher RPM's selected resulted in decreased performance compared to lower RPM's. Performance on the two tasks under various levels of BAC was then measured in Phase II. The general conclusions from Phase II are: 1) that performance of both tasks was significantly affected by BAC and Difficulty, and 2) that a greater decrement in performance due to BAC was observed for the video game task than for the pursuit tacking task. The results and implications of the two phases of research will be discussed further in the following two subsections.<br>Master of Science
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Sandqvist, Ulf. "Digitala drömmar : en studie av den svenska dator- och tv-spelsbranschen 1980-2005." Licentiate thesis, Umeå University, Department of Economic History, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1470.
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<p>This licentiate thesis describes the development of the Swedish computer and video game industry. The main focus is on the Swedish game development industry. Little research on the industry has been done and the purpose is to define the companies involved and to create an initial overview of the development of the industry. This overview will later be used as a platform for the doctorial thesis.</p><p>Games are a growing culture form and today a lot of people are playing different types of computer and video games. Internationally the industry has expanded and some of the successful games have generated spectacular revenues. In Sweden the industry has received attention from different actors like universities, government bodies and media. There are today educations that are focused on game development and there are programs which allocates grants towards game companies. The rapid development in the computers technology has had a great impact on the game industry, which is dependent on hardware development to create games.</p><p>The first computer games were made for some of the very first computers in the 1940´s and 1950´s. In the 1970´s a market for games was created when arcade machines and somewhat later home consoles were introduced. The industry has grown and includes today some of the largest companies in the world.</p><p>The Swedish industry follows the international pattern but developed a bit later and the first Swedish game companies were founded in the late 1980´s. The industry has expanded, especially between 1998 and 2002. In 2005 the number of people employed in the industry had increased to over 600. During the period under study the industry seems to have had a constant problem with making a profit. Especially in 2002 and 2003 the industry has had economic problems and some of the lager companies were bankrupt.</p>
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Soares, Richard Queirós. "OTT TV services: technical and economic aspects." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/12846.
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Mestrado em Engenharia Eletrónica e Telecomunicações<br>The breadth of availability and variety of online video contents has helped to encourage a far more mobile experience, which has proved particularly popular among younger generations. Over The Top (OTT) services, particularly those on-demand video platforms, became more and more attractive to consumers when compared with the current main TV packages.
This document describes how the video OTT Ecosystem works from a technical side. The description presented reaches both ends of the distribution chain: from how the video signals are acquired and processed, thru all the way to how they are delivered to the client, passing by the challenges and consequences that such services have on the network.
The main objective of this dissertation is to understand the possibility to create in Portugal a new operator where the core business is video delivery using only OTT services.<br>A amplitude e variedade de conteúdos disponíveis online têm ajudado a promover uma experiência cada ver mais móvel da televisão, serviço que se tem revelado particularmente popular entre os mais jovens. Serviços Over The Top (OTT), sobretudo aqueles disponíveis através de plataformas de video on-demand, têm-se tornado cada vez mais atraentes para os consumidores, em comparação com os atuais pacotes de televisão.
Este documento descreve como funciona, do ponto de vista técnico, o ecossistema do vídeo sobre OTT. A descrição apresentada abrange ambas as extremidades da cadeia de distribuição: desde a forma como os sinais de vídeo são adquiridos e processados até ao modo como eles são entregues ao cliente, passando pelos problemas e consequências que tais serviços podem ter na rede.
O principal objectivo deste trabalho é contribuir para compreender se é possível criar em Portugal um novo operador onde o core business seja a distribuição de vídeo utilizando apenas serviços OTT.
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Clearwater, David A. "Full spectrum propaganda : the U.S. military, video games, and the genre of the military-themed shooter." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100338.
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This dissertation explores the emerging relationship between the U.S. military and the commercial video game market. Specifically, this study situates this relationship in terms of the U.S. military's evolving role in a variety of media-such as Hollywood feature films, television, and television news-for the purposes of propaganda and the influencing of public opinion. Consequently, an analysis and critique of the U.S. military's production and commissioning of commercial video games will be advanced that takes into account contemporary analyses and media critiques with respect to war and representation. Since these games are also a part of the larger field of entertainment and cultural production, this study will attempt to understand these products for the complex ways they combine cultural expression, modern spectatorship and the desire to influence or mediate popular conceptions of war. Consideration will also be given to situating these products within the emerging field of video game studies and aesthetics, as well as questions concerning genre, realism, historical revisionism, and the ethics of simulation.
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Behrenshausen, Bryan G. "Touching is Good: An Eidetic Phenomenology of Interface, Interobjectivity, and Interaction in Nintendo's "Animal Crossing: Wild World"." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/BehrenshausenBG2007.pdf.
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Cheung, Mei Fung Meily. "The role of video game in the cultivation of literacy : a medium perspective." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2009. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1053.
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Alhidari, Abdullah. "Co-Creating Value in Video Games: The Impact of Gender Identity and Motivations on Video Game Engagement and Purchase Intentions." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799485/.
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When games were first developed for in-home use, they were primarily targeted almost exclusively at children and males. However, today’s marketplace manifests a more diverse population plays Internet-enabled games that can be played virtually anywhere. The average gamer is now 30 years old. Many gamers, obviously, are much older. Yet more strikingly, and more germane to this study’s purpose, 47% of the U.S. gamer population is female, as compared to 40% in 2010. Despite these trends the gaming industry remains a male-dominated culture. The marketer’s job is to facilitate game engagement and to motivate gamers to play. The notion of “engagement” is not new in business. The term was developed in the last decade. Many studies were devoted to understand, explain, and define the term. It suggests that within interactive, dynamic business environments, consumer engagement (CE) represents a strategic position that companies can use to enhance their sales growth, competitive advantage, and profitability. Moreover, there are three levels of engagement in any experiential consumption (i.e., playing video game): presence, flow, and psychological absorption. The findings of this study affirm that consumer engagement, including presence, flow and psychological absorption are explanatory factors that impact gamer’s purchase intentions. Our results show that consumers experience different mental engagement in an interactive environment (i.e., playing video games) compared to passive environments (i.e., visiting a website). These findings change our understanding of consumers’ engagement and flow state. We also found that male and female gamers experience different engagement level. However, we did not find a significant result that masculinity and femininity traits impact gamers’ engagement or intention. We argue that macroeconomic factors results in sales fluctuation may have resulted in reject in this hypothesis. Thus, marketers shed a light into the consumer’s interactive environment and flow states in that environments. Consumers not only determine the value in using a product as Vargo and Lusch suggested, but they also create that value. Also, consumer experience is an ongoing process that does not have a specific point to start, making the value creation a temporally accumulative process that includes past, present, and future experience. Therefore, the value created by consumers is not created while physically interacting with a device to play, but it may include imagined and indirect interaction with the product. Therefore, consumers (i.e., gamers) need to maintain a balance between presence and psychological absorption (i.e., flow) to get the best experience in play video gaming. Empirical evidence suggest that consumers’ flow state engagement is the most important variable in determining their ensuing purchase intention for video games, regardless of game genre.
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Tran, Chris. "What's Real Anymore: A Comparison of World of Warcraft, SecondLife and Online Experiences." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc10976/.
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The proliferation of the Internet and online-based social interactions has become an increasingly popular topic with communication scholars. The goal of this study was to explore how massively multi-player online role playing game (MMORPG) players make sense of and negotiate their online social interactions. This study (N = 292) examined how players of SecondLife and World of Warcraft evaluated their online relationships compared to their offline relationships and investigated how different levels of realism within different MMORPGs effected player's online experiences. The results indicated that players of SecondLife placed higher values of emotional closeness to their online relationships when compared to players of World of Warcraft and SecondLife was rated more real by its players than World of Warcraft. Results further indicated that players of SecondLife had higher levels of perceived online emotional closeness when compared to perceived offline emotional closeness. Implications of this study focus on developing a bottom up holistic profile of online game players as opposed to the current top down research model.
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Burnett, William Dayl. "An Exploration of Salient Performance Aspects of Three Selected Works for Solo Trombone by William Goldstein, Nino Rota and Richard Peaslee." Scholarly Repository, 2010. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/388.
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This essay will explore the salient performance characteristics of three selected works for solo trombone by major composers of popular media. The works selected for this study are Colloquy for Solo Trombone and Symphonic Band by William Goldstein, Concerto for Trombone in C Major by Nino Rota, and Arrows of Time by Richard Peaslee. These composers have written extensively for television, motion pictures, theater, and dance. In addition to their significant popular media repertoire, these three composers have made a significant contribution to the solo trombonist's repertoire. Although these works have been performed, recorded, produced, and reviewed, they have not been studied together as a group, nor have they been established in the general repertoire for solo trombone.
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Acarsoy, Sara Nil. "Effects of interactivity on narrative-driven games : A heuristic approach for narrative-driven games." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-19844.
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In narrative-driven games, the story is an essential part of the gameplay, and understanding the story is of great importance. Given that what separates this genre from other storytelling media is interactivity, this thesis focuses on the elements in narrative-driven video games that effects the players' perception of narrative through interactivity. Using players' likes and dislikes from their previous experiences in narrative-driven games, this thesis aims to develop a heuristic approach for interactive narrative elements that offer the narrative through players' input to the game's system and create an effective gameplay experience that delivers the story to the players.
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Wang, Jing Jing. "The effect of a health videogame with story immersion for childhood obesity prevention among Hong Kong Chinese children." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2015. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/177.
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Introduction: Video game is an emerging technology with potential to overcome many of the current barriers to behavior change. Video game playing is now woven into the fabric of children’s life and has been developed to educate individuals in health-related areas. Story immersion refers to the experience of being fully absorbed within a story in the game and is a key factor that contributes to the mechanism of behavior change. “Escape from Diab (Diab)is a health videogame designed to lower the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes through behavior change components that were integrated into activities within the game storyline. This thesis was designed to investigate the effect of Diab for childhood obesity prevention among Hong Kong Chinese children. Methods: A literature review was conducted. Subsequently, study one conducted the validation of the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Older Children (PAQ-C) with 469 Hong Kong Chinese children. Study two was a cross-sectional study to explore the associations of self-efficacy, motivation, preference with both self-reported and objective physical activity (PA) in 301 children. Study three consisted of two phases. Phase one conducted individual interviews with 34 Hong Kong Chinese children to gather their perceptions of Diab and to assess Diab’s acceptability and applicability. Phase two examined the effect of playing nine episodes of Diab on children’s health outcomes (i.e., motivation, self-efficacy, preference for diet and PA, and PA behavior) through a non-randomized intervention. Results: The review demonstrated the effects of interventions by using health videogames on the psychological correlates. However, limited evidence is available to draw conclusions on the games’ behavioral modification efficacy. In study one, good internal consistency and test-retest reliability suggest that the PAQ-C is an adequately reliable instrument for use among Chinese children. The significant moderate correlation between the PAQ-C score and accelerometer measured moderate-to-vigorous PA support the PAQ-C’s acceptable validity. Study two revealed the important effects of self-efficacy and autonomous motivation in predicting PA. Differences were found between the prediction of self-reported PA and objective PA, which is likely due to self-reported error variance common to the PAQ-C and psychological correlates but not common to acclerometry. Study three indicated that Diab was perceived to be an immersive game by most of participating Hong Kong Chinese children. Four themes emerged from the interviews indicated that story immersion was a perceptible component and that Diab, developed for American children, was acceptable to the Hong Kong Chinese children. The pilot intervention study found short-term benefits after completing the game. However, the effects were not sustained at follow-up testing 8-10 weeks later. Conclusion: The current thesis demonstrated the validity of PAQ-C and the important effects of self-efficacy and autonomous motivation in predicting PA, which could inform the development of efficacious interventions. Diab, a Health videogames with appealing characters and immersive stories, partially motivated children to improve their motivation, self-efficacy, and preference for diet and PA behaviors immediately after completing nine episodes of the game, however, the lasting effectiveness and mechanisms of change require more thorough investigation.
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Dean, Mary Therese. "Leveling the playing field reassessing gender and socio-economic disparities in online spaces /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38728333.
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白先陸 and Xianlu Bai. "Hosting mega-events: how the olympic games work as a catalyst in Beijing and London's urban development." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4293039X.
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Menuez, Paolo Xavier Machado. "The Downward Spiral: Postmodern Consciousness as Buddhist Metaphysics in the Dark Souls Video Game Series." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4161.
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This paper is about locating the meaning of a series of games known as the Dark Souls series in relation to contemporary social conditions in Japan. I argue that the game should be thought of as an emblem of the current cultural zeitgeist, in a similar way one might identify something like Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums as an emblem of the counter cultural 60s. I argue that the Dark Souls series expresses in allegorical form an anxiety about living in a time where the meaning of our everyday actions and even society itself has become significantly destabilized. It does this through a fractured approach to story-telling, that is interspersed with Buddhist metaphysics and wrapped up in macabre, gothic aesthetic depicting the last gasping breath of a once great kingdom. This expression of contemporary social anxiety is connected to the discourse of postmodernity in Japan. Through looking at these games as a feedback loop between text, environment and ludic system, I connect the main conceptual motifs that structure the games as a whole with Osawa Masachi's concept of the post-fictional era and Hiroki Azuma's definition of the otaku.
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Bailie, Brian Jacob-Paul. "Everquest, reality, and postmodern theories of community." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3254.
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EverQuest is a multiplayer online role playing game that serves as a practical incarnation of life as a cyborg in a posthuman community. Using cultural materialsim, this thesis demonstrates how the words of EverQuest interactants - from message boards, interviews, and player in-game communications - construct the world of EverQuest and the roles of the interactants as its citizens. More specifically, this thesis will argue that the EverQuest world serves to reify the ideas of consumer capitalism that informs the "real" world, even as EverQuest itself promises an escape from that world.
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Dapra, Charles. "Action Video Game Skill Level Predicts Performance on Target Detection and Identification in a Simulated Combat Environment." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1214.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Sciences<br>Psychology
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McMahan, Timothy. "Real Time Assessment of a Video Game Player's State of Mind Using Off-the-Shelf Electroencephalography." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955121/.
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The focus of this research is on the development of a real time application that uses a low cost EEG headset to measure a player's state of mind while they play a video game. Using data collected using the Emotiv EPOC headset, various EEG processing techniques are tested to find ways of measuring a person's engagement and arousal levels. The ability to measure a person's engagement and arousal levels provide an opportunity to develop a model that monitor a person's flow while playing video games. Identifying when certain events occur, like when the player dies, will make it easier to identify when a player has left a state of flow. The real time application Brainwave captures data from the wireless Emotiv EPOC headset. Brainwave converts the raw EEG data into more meaningful brainwave band frequencies. Utilizing the brainwave frequencies the program trains multiple machine learning algorithms with data designed to identify when the player dies. Brainwave runs while the player plays through a video gaming monitoring their engagement and arousal levels for changes that cause the player to leave a state of flow. Brainwave reports to researchers and developers when the player dies along with the identification of the players exit of the state of flow.
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Rathburn, Evie Amanda. "Evolution of Interactive Entertainment: An Economic History and Analysis of the Videogames Industry in the United States." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1403.
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Sweeping advancements in digital technology have greatly influenced the evolution of every industry through streamlining processes, improving market reach, and disrupting traditional value chains. In the videogames industry which develops, manufactures, and markets interactive entertainment hardware and software, the exponential increases in computing power and affordability have consistently diversified their product offerings and customer base. The spread of internet accessibility and the increased prevalence of gamification for subjects outside of entertainment have provided unique opportunities for market growth. With the increasing ownership of personal computers and advanced mobile devices, the spread of social gaming, and the implementation of “freemium” business models, new revenue streams exclusive to this interactive entertainment medium have empowered the videogames industry to consistently reach more consumers while embracing digital distribution. This paper will not only cover the evolution of the videogames industry from its inception to modern day but also will discuss the challenges that drove this industry’s rise to becoming one of the fastest growing industries in the United States economy. Further this paper will examine the implications of these successes and present-day challenges the industry continues to face.
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Liang, Yitian. "Economic design in the virtual world : the fee structure and sales mechanism in the P2P trading market in online video games." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62074.
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Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), often referred to as online video games
—which enable players to interact with each other in a virtual world—generate significant and
growing economic value. The predominant business model is free-to-play, in which collecting
fees from in-game player-to-player (P2P) trading markets is an important way for firms to
generate revenue. Surprisingly, quantitative research on the free-to-play business model in this
industry is limited and, in particular, a thorough empirical investigation of the design of the P2P
market is lacking. This thesis examines the fee structure, followed by an initial investigation of
the sales mechanism.
To understand the fee structure, we examine two commonly designs: listing fee (charged
upfront) and commission (charged upon transaction). While it seems intuitive that listing fee—an
entry cost—should lower the listing and transaction volumes (common industry indicators of
long-run profitability) more than commission does, it is unclear which structure generates higher
fee collection (short-run revenue). To answer this question, a structural model is developed to
capture players’ trading behavior and applied to a popular game. The model is empirically
challenging due to several industry features including a large number of long-lived players with
unobserved heterogeneity. We tackle the challenge by assuming that players don't use their
identities as information to form the sale probability, which is innocuous when each player’s
impact on outcomes is small. We prove the existence of equilibrium, propose and implement a
computationally light estimation procedure. Through counterfactuals, we find that there is a
trade-off between them: listing fee (vs. commission) generates lower listing volume, similar
transaction volume, and greater fee collection. We discuss the managerial implications.
To better understand the sales mechanism, we compare fixed-price posting and auction.
Due to data limitation (only fixed-price posting is observed), our goal is to develop a tractable
auction framework (for estimation with actual auction data) and to conduct preliminary analysis.
Using parameter estimates from the fixed-price posting data, our initial counterfactual shows that
there is a trade-off: auction generates higher fee collection and listing volume, but lower
transaction volume. We discuss the limitations and managerial implications.<br>Business, Sauder School of<br>Marketing, Division of<br>Graduate
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Jin, Chengyue. "Game narrative conveyed through visual elements in digital games." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-20104.
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This thesis compares the different concepts of game narrative and traditional narrative, and aims to explore and analyze the relationship between visual elements and game narrative in video games. Game narrative is an emerging narrative based on digital media. It can not only include stories from traditional narratives, but also convey narratives through the virtual environment and mechanisms of games. This thesis discusses the concepts of traditional narrative and game narrative from the basic concepts of narrative, and lists different visual narrative elements and video games of different narrative types on this basis. In addition, this thesis designs a study that includes different dimensions of immersion to investigate the impact of narratives conveyed through visual elements on player immersion.
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Ask, Alexander A. "To kill or not to kill : competition, aggression, and videogames, in adolescents /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09pha834.pdf.
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陸艷媚 and Yim-mei Kiano Luk. "Sport tourism and public health: the implications of the 4th East Asian Games for Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39559075.
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Răzman, Diana Cristina. "Replaying history : Accuracy and authenticity in historical video game narratives." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-18962.
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In this research paper, I develop a conceptual framework through which I identify two ways in which historical practices, events, and spaces are represented and engaged with in video games. The concepts I propose are historical accuracy to reflect well-established narratives and a high fidelity to factual data, and historical authenticity to reflect lesser known narratives and a more complex and sometimes abstract interpretation of history. The research concentrates on the modalities in which history is represented in mainstream video games, what similarities or dissimilarities can be drawn from the analysis of various historical digital games, and how can these games be designed to foster diversity and fair representation.
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Sandqvist, Ulf. "Digitala drömmar och industriell utveckling : en studie av den svenska dator- och tv-spelsindustrin 1980-2010." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk historia, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-33912.
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The aim of this thesis is to explore and analyse the development of the Swedish video and computer game industry. The main focus is on the Swedish game development industry. The research was conducted with two different methods. First with a macro approach where all Swedish game developers were identified and general data from the annual reports was collected. The second part is a case study with three Swedish game developing companies focusing on the production and development of the firms. The game industry has expanded and some of the successful games have generated spectacular revenues. In Sweden the industry has received attention from different actors like universities, government bodies and media. Yet little research has been done about the Swedish game industry. In general the game industry outside the larger videogame producing countries USA, Japan and the UK has been ignored to a large part in academic research. The first computer games were made for some of the very first computers in the 1940’s and 1950’s. In the 1970’s, a market for games was created when arcade machines and somewhat later home consoles were introduced. The industry has grown and today it includes some of the largest companies in the world. The Swedish industry follows the international pattern. Evidence suggests that the first Swedish games were created in the 1950’s at the large university computers. But a game developing industry seems to have developed a bit later than internationally when the first Swedish game companies were founded in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. The Swedish industry entered an introduction phase from the middle of 1980’s, a couple of years after the introduction of personal computers, until the end of the 1990’s. An expansion phase started in 1998. The expansion was strong between 1998 to 2002 and 2006 to 2008. In 2008 the number of people employed in the industry had increased to over 1300. During the studied period the industry seems to have had constant problems making a profit. Especially in 2002 and 2003 the industry had economic problems and some of the larger companies went bankrupt. The distribution among the companies shows that the concentration within the industry is growing. A few companies have expanded rapidly and have well over a hundred employees. The industry is very gender segregated and the number of women working in the industry is under ten percent. To study the development on a micro level, three Swedish game developing companies were selected. The focus was the development and change in production and organisation. The structure of the industry seems to have been changing with the fast technical development. A more modular structure seems to be emerging within the industry. In a number of areas a modular system has emerged. It is possible to buy more parts and productions capacity on the market. It is possible to buy game engines and outsource motions-capture work to other specialized companies. The relation to game publishers seems to influence the companies and create uncertainty for the game developers when they do not own the rights to the intellectual properties. The three game developers also have a similar development being founded by computer interested young men wanting to pursuit their interest as a job. The Swedish subculture around the so called “demoscene” seems to have been a factor in the early development of the industry and a recruitment base for the early developers.
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Gregory, Clairellyn Rose. "Who Gender-Bends and Why? A Qualitative Study of World of Warcraft." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/421.
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According to a 2009 study, 68% of American households played video games (Entertainment Software Association). With this number continually on the rise, video games and their cultures are in need of further scholarly exploration. A video game of particular interest is a massive online game known as World of Warcraft, drawing over twelve million players worldwide (Blizzard Entertainment, 2010). With a cyberspace-based culture, World of Warcraft exposes its players to phenomenon that are unique to it, and thereby not easily understood through the same measures and evaluations offered by society at large. One such phenomena is that of gender, or more specifically the bending of gender by which players assume characters of the opposite gender. Although a common practice in video games like World of Warcraft, its motivations have yet to receive adequately scholarly attention. The present study seeks to explore the process of gender selection in the massive online game World of Warcraft through qualitative methods utilizing interviews, texts, and field notes. The data is then analyzed using Kellner's (2003) methods of critical analysis of media and Langian's (1975) work on thematization.
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Bilir, Tanla E. "Real economics in virtual worlds a massively multiplayer online game case study: Runescape /." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/31657.
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Thesis (M. S.)--Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010.<br>Committee Chair: Pearce, Celia; Committee Member: Burnett, Rebecca; Committee Member: Do, Ellen Yi-Luen; Committee Member: Knoespel, Kenneth. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.
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Wang, Wen-Kai. "Application of stochastic differential games and real option theory in environmental economics." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/893.
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This thesis presents several problems based on papers written jointly by the author and Dr. Christian-Oliver Ewald. Firstly, the author extends the model presented by Fershtman and Nitzan (1991), which studies a deterministic differential public good game. Two types of volatility are considered. In the first case the volatility of the diffusion term is dependent on the current level of public good, while in the second case the volatility is dependent on the current rate of public good provision by the agents. The result in the latter case is qualitatively different from the first one. These results are discussed in detail, along with numerical examples. Secondly, two existing lines of research in game theoretic studies of fisheries are combined and extended. The first line of research is the inclusion of the aspect of predation and the consideration of multi-species fisheries within classical game theoretic fishery models. The second line of research includes continuous time and uncertainty. This thesis considers a two species fishery game and compares the results of this with several cases. Thirdly, a model of a fishery is developed in which the dynamic of the unharvested fish population is given by the stochastic logistic growth equation and it is assumed that the fishery harvests the fish population following a constant effort strategy. Explicit formulas for optimal fishing effort are derived in problems considered and the effects of uncertainty, risk aversion and mean reversion speed on fishing efforts are investigated. Fourthly, a Dixit and Pindyck type irreversible investment problem in continuous time is solved, using the assumption that the project value follows a Cox-Ingersoll- Ross process. This solution differs from the two classical cases of geometric Brownian motion and geometric mean reversion and these differences are examined. The aim is to find the optimal stopping time, which can be applied to the problem of extracting resources.
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Costa, Poliana Chiemi Yamagute 1982. "Aspectos motores da Paralisia Cerebral Espástica diparética = o Nintendo WII 'MARCA REGISTRADA' como atividade motora complementar = Motor aspects of Spastic Cerebral Palsy : the Nintendo WII 'TRADEMARK' as a supplementary motor activity." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275089.
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Orientador: Edison Duarte<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Física<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T12:52:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Previous issue date: 2013<br>Resumo: As crianças e adolescentes com Paralisia Cerebral (PC) Espástica diparética apresentam comprometimentos músculo-esqueléticos e neuromusculares que restringem o controle normal da postura e as estratégias de equilíbrio estático e dinâmico, interferindo no desempenho de atividades funcionais. As inovações tecnológicas dos últimos anos têm agregado intervenções sensório-motoras através de sistemas de realidade virtual para melhora da estabilidade postural e do controle motor seletivo. Com estes objetivos, o vídeo game Nintendo Wii® que utiliza um sistema de realidade virtual é amplamente utilizado no Brasil, sendo conhecido como Wiireabilitação. Poucos estudos comprovam seus benefícios em crianças com desordens neuromotoras, portanto, este estudo teve como objetivo analisar as mudanças que o uso do sistema de realidade virtual Nintendo Wii® como terapia complementar pode provocar na função motora grossa, alinhamento postural, equilíbrio estático e dinâmico de crianças e adolescentes com PC espástica diparética com marcha independente. Métodos: 12 sujeitos com PC diparética foram alocados aleatoriamente em: grupo controle submetido à fisioterapia convencional (GC, n=6) e grupo experimental submetido à fisioterapia associada à Wiireabilitação (GE, n=6), ambos para treino de alinhamento postural, equilíbrio e função motora grossa. Equilíbrio estático e dinâmico foram avaliados através do sistema de Baropodometria Eletrônica, o alinhamento postural pelo Software para Avaliação Postural (SAPO), e a função motora grossa através das dimensões D e E da escala Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-88). Estas variáveis foram mensuradas nos dois grupos antes e após 20 sessões de intervenção, sendo comparadas entre grupo e entre grupo e momento com o testes estatístico ANOVA one-way para medidas repetidas. Para as comparações pairwise foi utilizada análise gráfica (boxplot e gráfico de interação). Resultados: No teste de estabilometria da baropodometria eletrônica, houve diferença estatisticamente significativa na comparação entre grupo para oscilação médio-lateral e ânteroposterior com olhos fechados (cm) e oscilação do centro de pressão na superfície (cm2) com olhos fechados (p=0.050; p=0.005; p=0.009 respectivamente), e diferença na comparação entre grupo e momento para as mesmas variáveis anteriores (p=0.042; p=0.012 e p=0.006 respectivamente). Neste teste observa-se melhora de todas as variáveis no grupo experimental, e piora de todas no grupo controle. Não foram encontradas diferenças significativas que indicassem melhora para as variáveis da função motora grossa, do alinhamento postural, da baropodometria estática e dinâmica. Conclusão: Os resultados deste estudo sugerem que 20 sessões de fisioterapia convencional associadas à Wiireabilitação produzem melhora no controle do equilíbrio estático, porém não foram suficientes para produzir mudanças significativas na função motora grossa, no alinhamento postural e na distribuição da carga corporal nos pés<br>Abstract: Children and adolescents with Spastic Diplegia Cerebral Palsy (CP) present musculo-skeletal impairments that restrict normal postural control and static and dynamic balance strategies, interfering in functional performance activities. Recent technological innovations have added sensory-motor interventions through the use of virtual reality systems to improve postural stability and selective motor control. The video game Nintendo Wii® uses a virtual reality system, approaching the objectives before it is widely used in Brazil and is known as Wiihabilitation. Few researches have proved its benefits in children with motor disorders, thus this research aimed to analyze the changes that using the Nintendo Wii® virtual game system, as a complementary therapy, can cause in gross motor function, postural alignment, static and dynamic balance of children and adolescents with spastic diplegia and independent gait. 12 spastic diplegia subjects were randomly allocated into: control group submitted to conventional physiotherapy (CG, n=6) and experimental group submitted to physiotherapy associated with Wiihabilitation (EG, n=6), both for postural alignment, balance and gross motor function training. Static and dynamic balance were assessed through Electronic Baropodometry, postural alignment was assessed by the Software for Posture Assessment (SAPO), and gross motor function through D and E dimensions of the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-88). These variables were measured in both groups before and after 20 sessions of intervention, and were compared between groups and between group and moment with ANOVA one-way for repeated measures. For pairwise comparisons, a graphic analysis was used (boxplot and interaction graph). Results: In the stabilometry test of the electronic baropodometry, there were statistically significant differences between groups for medio-lateral and antero-posterior oscillations with eyes closed (cm) and center of pressure surface oscillation (cm2) with eyes closed (p=0.050; p=0.005; p=0.009 respectively), and in the comparison between group and moment for the same variables (p=0.042; p=0.012 e p=0.006 respectively). In this test, there was improvement in all variables of experimental group, and decline in all variables of control group There were no significant differences that would indicate improvement on gross motor function, postural alignment, static and dynamic baropodometry variables. The results of the present research suggest that 20 sessions of conventional physiotherapy associated with Wiihabilitation improves control of static balance, however were not sufficient to produce significant changes on gross motor function, postural alignment and foot loading distribution<br>Mestrado<br>Atividade Fisica Adaptada<br>Mestra em Educação Física
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Leite, Patrícia da Silva. "Elementos de jogos digitais inclusivos para gameplay no contexto das pessoas com deficiência sob a perspectiva da interação corporificada." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2017. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/2892.
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CAPES<br>O ato de jogar é uma maneira de a pessoa que joga estar no mundo e entender o que a rodeia, de experimentar realidades diferentes e identificar-se com as discussões propiciadas pelo jogo. Utilizado como gerador de significados para a sociedade e para as pessoas, os jogos podem ser compreendidos como artefatos que devem ser acessíveis a todos os membros da sociedade, particularmente os jogos digitais, por serem uma das mídias que mais apresentam desdobramentos sociais, culturais, políticos e econômicos na atualidade. Na reflexão do papel sociocultural dos jogos digitais e sua relevância para as pessoas, surge a questão das pessoas com deficiência, sobre como essas pessoas utilizam os jogos digitais, como são dadas suas representações nos jogos digitais e como elas se envolvem no processo de desenvolvimento de jogos digitais. Neste contexto, a presente pesquisa utiliza como principal método a Análise Crítica para realizar discussões sobre as etapas de conceito e elaboração dos elementos fundamentais de jogos digitais inclusivos para o gameplay, sob a perspectiva das pessoas com deficiência e à luz da teoria Interação Corporificada. Deste modo, considerar os princípios de inclusão para abordar os elementos dos jogos e articular as etapas de desenvolvimento de jogos digitais inclusivos com a Interação Corporificada, evidenciam, nesta pesquisa, como novos conceitos e perspectivas podem contribuir para subsidiar o projeto de jogos que vão na direção da inclusão das pessoas com deficiência, não somente como jogadoras, mas também como personagens e desenvolvedoras de jogos. Estas percepções propiciam novas maneiras de pensar e desenvolver jogos digitais inclusivos, de modo que na construção destes artefatos sejam considerados os desdobramentos da utilização dos jogos na sociedade, que ocorre por meio das representações, dos valores e dos significados expressados por meio dos jogos.<br>The act of playing is a way for the player to be in the world and to understand what is around her, to experience different realities and to identify herself with the discussions provided by the game. Used as a generator of meanings for society and for people, games can be understood as artifacts that must be accessible to all members of society, particularly digital games, considering they are one of the most comprehensive technologies nowadays, through which social, cultural, political and economic discussions are held. Reflecting on the sociocultural role of digital games and their relevance to people, arises the question about people with disabilities, how these people use digital games, how they are represented in digital games, and how they are engaged in the process of digital games development. In this sense, the present research uses Critical Analysis as the main method to conduct discussions about the stages of concept and elaboration of the fundamental elements of inclusive digital games for gameplay, from the perspective of people with disabilities in the light of Embodied Interaction theory. Thus, considering the principles of inclusion to address the elements of games and articulate the stages of development of inclusive digital games with Embodied Interaction, argue, in this research, how new concepts and perspectives can contribute to support the design of games towards the inclusion of people with disabilities, not only as players, but also as characters and game developers. These perceptions provide new ways of thinking and developing inclusive digital games, so that in the construction of these artifacts are considered the repercussion of the use of games in society, which occurs through the representations, values and meanings expressed by the games.
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Mantovani, Marco. "Essays in forward looking behavior in strategic interactions." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209492.
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The general topic of our thesis is forward looking behavior in strategic situations. Mixing theoretical and experimental analysis, we document how strategic thinking is affected by the specific features of a dynamic interaction. The overarching result is that the information regarding decisions that are close to the current one, receive a qualitatively different consideration, with respect to distant ones. That is, the actual decisions are based on reasoning over a limited number of steps, close to actual decison node. We capture this feature of behavior both in a strategic (limited backward induction) and in a non-strategic (limited farsightedness) set up, and we identify relevant consequences on the outcome of the interaction, which powerfullly explain many observed experimental regularities.<p>In the first essay, we present a general out-of-equilibrium framework for strategic thinking in sequential games. It assumes the agents to take decisions on restricted game trees, according to their (limited) foresight level, following backward induction. Therefore we talk of limited backward induction (LBI). We test for LBI using a variant of the race game. Our design allows to identify restricted game trees and backward reasoning, thus properly disentangling LBI behavior. The results provide strong support in favor of LBI. Most players solve intermediate tasks - i.e. restricted games - without reasoning on the terminal histories. Only a small fraction of subjects play close to equilibrium, and (slow) convergence toward it appears, though only in the base game. An intermediate task keeps the subjects off the equilibrium path longer than in the base game. The results cannot be rationalized using the most popular models of strategic reasoning, let alone equilibrium analysis.<p>In the second essay, a subtle implication of the model is investigated: the sensitivity of the players’ foresight to the accessibility and completeness of the information they have, using a Centipede game. By manipulating the way in which information is provided to subjects, we show that reduced availability of information is sufficient to shift the distribution of take-nodes further from the equilibrium prediction. On the other hand, similar results are obtained in a treatment where reduced availability of information is combined with an attempt to elicit preferences for reciprocity, through the presentation of the centipede as a repeated trust game. Our results could be interpreted as cognitive limitations being more effective than preferences in determining (shifts in) behavior in our experimental centipede. Furthermore our results are at odds with the recent ones in Cox [2012], suggesting caution in generalizing their results. Reducing the availability of information may hamper backward induction or induce myopic behavior, depending on the strategic environment.<p>The third essay consists of an experimental investigation of farsighted versus myopic behavior in network formation. Pairwise stability Jackson and Wolinsky [1996] is the standard stability concept in network formation. It assumes myopic behavior of the agents in the sense that they do not forecast how others might react to their actions. Assuming that agents are perfectly farsighted, related stability concepts have been proposed. We design a simple network formation experiment to test these extreme theories, but find evidence against both of them: the subjects are consistent with an intermediate rule of behavior, which we interpret as a form of limited farsightedness. On aggregate, the selection among multiple pairwise stable networks (and the performance of farsighted stability) crucially depends on the level of farsightedness needed to sustain them, and not on efficiency or cooperative considerations. Individual behavior analysis corroborates this interpretation, and suggests, in general, a low level of farsightedness (around two steps) on the part of the agents.<br>Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Modin, Erik, and Hanna Nordin. "Våld, sexism & rasism : En litteraturstudie om normer i data- och TV-spel och deras påverkan." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-162096.
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An objective of this study is to investigate what current research states regarding how violent, sexist, and racist norms in video games affects the player over time. Another objective is to investigate in what way the current longitudinal research takes different aspects of game design and the player’s context into consideration. This was done by conducting a systematic literature review. The findings suggest that current longitudinal research has focused on violent norms in video games, and that a few or no longitudinal studies have investigated how sexist and racist norms affect the player. The findings also suggest a connection between playing violent video games and aggression. However, the cause for this effect and how powerful it is, is yet not concluded. These issues and suggestions for further research are discussed.
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Calcraft, Peter James. "Two-pore channels and NAADP-dependent calcium signalling." Thesis, St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/888.
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Gangadharbatla, Harshavardhan. "Alternative media strategies: measuring product placement effectiveness in videogames." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2691.
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Maningat, Josephine I. "Video games and human performance." 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/27489.
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