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Journal articles on the topic "Computer games"

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Tseng, Fan-Chen, and Ching-I. Teng. "Online Gamers' Preferences for Online Game Charging Mechanisms." International Journal of E-Business Research 11, no. 1 (January 2015): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijebr.2015010102.

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Online games construct a virtual world where gamers can explore and experience various exciting environments. However, studies on gamer behavior rarely investigated the relationships between motivations and spending for online games. Understanding these relationships helps online game service providers manage gamers' motivations and develop better revenue models. This study investigated the relationships between one core motivation for playing online games—exploration motivation—and online gamers' willingness to spend for online games. Analytical results indicated that exploration motivation is positively related to gamer willingness to pay monthly access fees for playing online games, and is negatively related to gamer intention to buy or to bid for virtual items. The implications are discussed and suggestions to game service providers are offered.
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Abrudan, Mirela, Andreea Voina, and Andreea Lăpuşte. "Computer role-playing games: player motivations, preferences, and behavior." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Ephemerides 66, no. 2 (December 30, 2021): 5–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbeph.2021.2.01.

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"In recent years, computer role-playing games have changed the way we spend our free time. Traditional games have been increasingly replaced by digitized productions, and technology has made it easier to access videogames on multiples devices. Online games bring users together in a fantasy world in which they design avatars, manifesting their creativity and employing gaming strategies. This study analyzed Romanian gamers’ behaviors and perceptions of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (henceforth MMORPGs); by employing focus groups and a survey, the authors aimed to map preferences and habits of users in terms of gender. We found that users are not likely to engage in stereotypical activities in creating and using their avatars within the games, nor do they design female avatars solely for visual pleasure, but rather for opportunistic reasons. Moreover, the research subjects did not think of choosing female avatars as a safeguard for advancing through in-game levels, but rather consider other variables, such as hard work, skills, or strategy, as important to succeed. Keywords: role-playing games, gaming behavior, gamer preferences, gender-swapping, avatar gender."
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Laurence, Asep Hermawan, Innocentius Bernarto, and Ferdi Antonio. "Video Game Engagement: A Passkey to the Intentions of Continue Playing, Purchasing Virtual Items, and Player Recruitment (3Ps)." International Journal of Computer Games Technology 2023 (April 29, 2023): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/2648097.

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People of all ages enjoy playing games, making online gaming a part of the modern lifestyle. Online games as digital products can reach gamers without being hindered by various limitations such as time and location. With a large selection of freemium and premium games in the virtual marketplace, gamers have the opportunity to switch between various games from different genres and make purchases of virtual goods. Therefore, the challenge that developers have to overcome is whether gamers will have the intention to play, pay, and recruit players (3Ps). To manage future behavior intentions, game developers need to ensure that gamers and the games they play have a solid engagement. Data collection comes from the results of distributing questionnaires to Twitter users with the self-reporting method. The amount of data processed was 370 respondents. The model was assessed using the partial least square of structural equation modeling. The results of this study show that video game engagement plays a crucial role as a mediator between gamer experience and the intention to continue playing, purchase game items, and recruit new players. Enjoyment is the strongest predictor of gamer experience, followed by arousal, social interaction, escapism, and challenge.
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Ćwil, Małgorzata, and William T. Howe. "Cross-Cultural Analysis of Gamer Identity: A Comparison of the United States and Poland." Simulation & Gaming 51, no. 6 (August 24, 2020): 785–801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1046878120945735.

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Who is a gamer? What kind of people are perceived to be gamers? And finally – who perceives themselves as a gamer? In this article the authors attempt to answer these three questions from a multinational perspective. Background. Games are nowadays one of the most frequently encountered forms of entertainment and constitute an ever-increasing part of many people’s day-to-day lives. With the rising popularity of video games, there is a need to conduct a research concerning gamer identity and to find out who perceives themselves as a gamer. The aim of this study is to compare the results of the survey conducted in two different countries to better understand the characteristics of players that self-identified as gamers. Methods. The quantitative study was conducted in two countries – Poland and the United States – in order to research gamer identity. The questionnaire consisted of questions about the self-identification as a gamer, time spent playing video games, types of games played, and the platforms used. It was conducted among 223 students who play video games. Results. The results show that there are both similarities and differences in the meaning of gamer identity between Poland and the United States. People who consider themselves gamers generally spend more time playing games than non-gamers regardless of the country. However, some differences can be spotted between Poland and the U.S. concerning among others types of games played, used platforms or different styles of playing video games. Limitations and further research. The main problem in the study was the limited age range in the sample. In the future it seems valuable to include people of different age groups to broaden the study of self-identified gamer identity.
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Maddock, S. "Computer games." Virtual Reality 5, no. 4 (December 2000): 183–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01408516.

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Schmalzer, Matthew. "The Ontology of Incremental Games: Thinking Like the Computer in Frank Lantz’s Universal Paperclips." Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 10, no. 1 (April 21, 2020): 91–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/23.6174.

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Incremental games merge the game's system and guise, casting the player in the role of a computer. This paper analyzes incremental games to show how the specific features of the genre cause the player to engage in machinic thinking. It begins with a brief overview of the incremental game genre. Then shifts to an analysis of one game in particular: Frank Lantz’s Universal Paperclips (2017). Universal Paperclips puts the player in the role of an AI tasked with producing paperclips, making it a perfect example to show how the player learns to think like the machine through the overlapping roles of the player and computer, which will be elaborated through a comparison of the ways both incremental games and slot machines encourage what Natasha Dow Schüll’s (2012) calls the “machine zone” in players. The study concludes by complicating these arguments with an examination of the ways in which, despite the machinic thinking that incremental games engender, the player and computer actually withdraw from each other which makes incremental games a critique of human computer interactions and a meta-game about the construction of videogames, instead of purely a speculative ontological representation of computers.
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Teng, Ching-I., Shih-Ping Jeng, Henry Ker-Chang Chang, and Soushan Wu. "Who Plays Games Online?" International Journal of E-Business Research 8, no. 4 (October 2012): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jebr.2012100101.

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Online games have become increasingly popular computer applications, raising the question of who plays them. Thus, the present study investigates the relationship between gamer personality and online game use as well as the potential links between online game use and gamer demographic variables. The sample consisted of 1633 Taiwanese online gamers. This study used confirmatory factor analysis to assess measurement reliability and validity. The hypotheses were tested using regression analyses. Analytical results indicated that online game use is positively related to gamer openness and agreeableness but negatively related to gamer conscientiousness and emotional stability. Moreover, being male and having a high income were associated with higher levels of online game use. The results increase the knowledge on the link between personality and online gaming behaviour.
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Liu, Xiongyi, Patrick Wachira, Selma Koc, and Roland Pourdavood. "An Exploratory Study of Predictors of Pre-Service Teachers’ Intention to Integrate Computer Games in Mathematics Education." International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology 10, no. 1 (December 15, 2021): 145–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.46328/ijemst.1827.

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The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine whether specific attitudes and beliefs among pre-service teachers about the use of computer games in mathematics teaching and learning predict their intention to integrate computer games in future mathematics teaching. Data were collected via a questionnaire from 119 teacher education students in a mathematics methods class at a midwestern USA university. Findings indicate that previous experience of computer gaming, gamer identity, self-efficacy for computer game-based teaching, perceived educational benefits of computer games, and gender stereotypes about computer gaming were significantly related to intention to integrate computer games in future teaching. Multi-level linear regression analysis indicates that self-efficacy, perceived benefits and gender stereotypes did not explain significantly more variance in intention for game integration above and beyond that explained by previous experience of computer gaming and gamer identity. Gender and specialization of the preservice teachers were related to previous experience of computer gaming and gamer identity. The results and educational implications of the study for teacher education and policy making are discussed and limitations of the study are addressed.
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Mileham, R. "Let the games begin [computer games]." Engineering & Technology 3, no. 14 (August 9, 2008): 20–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/et:20081403.

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Bychkova, Olga Anatol'evna, and Aleksandra Valer'evna Nikitina. "Images of game and gamer in the space of literature and computer games." Человек и культура, no. 6 (June 2020): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8744.2020.6.34481.

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The subject of this research is the images of game and gamers. In the space of literary work, they are arrayed in metaphorical and often demonic raiment, receiving moral-ethical interpretation in one or another way. The problem of game and gamer in criticism was regarded by Y. Mann (“On the Concept of Game as a Literary Image”), V. V. Vinogradov (“Style of the Queen of Spades”), E. Dobin (“Ace and Queen”, A. Pushkin’s “The Queen of Spades”), R. Caillois (“Games and People”), British writer and researcher of online games R, Bartle, American scientist Nick Yee, and many others. However, juxtaposition of literature sources on the topic to the research in the field of computer games is conducted for the first time. The scientific novelty consists in the comprehensive examination of the psychological game of the gamer based on the material of Russian literature (A. S. Pushkin “The Queen of Spades”, V. V. Nabokov The Luzhin Defense”) , as well as the modern computer games practice, in which psychological type of the gamer found its realization and development in accordance with genre diversity. Even the Russian classical literature depict game as an autonomous space that encompasses the gamer, and often has devastating effect on their personality. The author also observes an important characterological trait of the gamer: the conceptual, “literal” perception of the world, which is based on the reception of visual images of the world against verbal. Therefore, the Russian literature alongside the research practice of modern videogames from different angles approach examination of the images of “game and gamer”, cognize the factors and consequences of the problems that emerge in this object field, as well as seek for their solution. The data acquired in the course of the conducted comparative analysis is mutually enriching.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Computer games"

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Nordvall, Mathias. "SIGHTLENCE : Haptics for Computer Games." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-73873.

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Games in general and computer games in particular have now become a mainstream activity for young people in the industrialized nations. Sadly, people’s interaction with computer artifacts and games are mainly still limited to the visual and auditive modalities. This constrains the richness of our interaction with those artifacts, it constrains the possibilities of using those artifacts to communicate and build relations with others, and it excludes some people from using them at all. This thesis answers the questions of whether it’s possible to use haptics as a single modality for conveying information in computer games, if it’s possible to translate the standard interfaces of existing computer games into haptic interfaces, and if it can be accomplished with the technology used in the gamepads of current generation game consoles. It also contains a theoretical foundation for using haptics in game design and a new design method for analyzing the requirements of computer game interface modalities. A computer game prototype called Sightlence was developed in order to answer these questions. The prototype was developed in four iterative cycles of design, development, and evaluative play sessions. Four groups of people participated in the play sessions: graduate students, and teachers, specializing in games; people who are deafblind; people from the general population; and pupils from a national special needs school in Sweden for children with deafness or impaired hearing combined with severe learning disabilities, or congenital deafblindness. The prototypes were tested with usability techniques for measuring performance and learnability. The usability tests showed that Sightlence can be successfully learned by people from the general population while the pupils with cognitive development disorders from the special needs school would need additional support in the game in order to learn to handle the increased abstraction caused by the haptic interface. The thesis ends with discussion of the designed and developed artifact Sightlence. The discussion touches on the design process, the usability testing, and possible future research and development relevant for making haptics a fruitful tool and medium for designers and people.
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Hu, Mengchen. "Game Design Patterns for Designing Stealth Computer Games." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20294.

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Design patterns are widely used in game design, especially in action games. Design patterns can be seen as a group of concluded gameplay. A stealth game is a video game genre that rewards the player for using stealth (conceal avatar of player in order to avoid enemies) to overcome antagonists. In some cases there is a conflict between difficulty and game experience in stealth game. In order to solve this problem, we researched design patterns in stealth games. We observed a set of stealth game design patterns from three different stealth games. The collection used a different template of game design pattern.Then we created a questionnaire to collect opinions from designers that have experience in stealth game area. Based on such data, we designed and created a prototype of application. Unlike other websites or books, the application shown game design pattern for a single type of game(stealth game). From the application designers can check stealth game design patterns based on design document. The application can introduce stealth game design patterns to designers, and show how to use them in stealth game design.
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Vedrashko, Ilya. "Advertising in computer games." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39144.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves [67]-[74]).
This paper suggests advertisers should experiment with in-game advertising to gain skills that could become vital in the near future. It compiles, arranges and analyzes the existing body of academic and industry knowledge on advertising and product placement in computer game environments. The medium's characteristics are compared to other channels' in terms of their attractiveness to marketers, and the business environment is analyzed to offer recommendations on the relative advantages of in-game advertising. The paper also contains a brief historical review of in-game advertising, and descriptions of currently available and emerging advertising formats. Keywords: Advertising, marketing, branding, product placement, branded entertainment, networks, computer games, video games, virtual worlds.
by Ilya Vedrashko.
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Плохута, Тетяна Миколаївна, Татьяна Николаевна Плохута, Tetiana Mykolaivna Plokhuta, and B. S. Ilchyshyn. "Computer games and reality." Thesis, Вид-во СумДУ, 2007. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/17551.

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Rihan, Jonathan. "Computer vision based interfaces for computer games." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579554.

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Interacting with a computer game using only a simple web camera has seen a great deal of success in the computer games industry, as demonstrated by the numerous computer vision based games available for the Sony PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 game consoles. Computational efficiency is important for these human computer inter- action applications, so for simple interactions a fast background subtraction approach is used that incorporates a new local descriptor which uses a novel temporal coding scheme that is much more robust to noise than the standard formulations. Results are presented that demonstrate the effect of using this method for code label stability. Detecting local image changes is sufficient for basic interactions, but exploiting high-level information about the player's actions, such as detecting the location of the player's head, the player's body, or ideally the player's pose, could be used as a cue to provide more complex interactions. Following an object detection approach to this problem, a combined detection and segmentation approach is explored that uses a face detection algorithm to initialise simple shape priors to demonstrate that good real-time performance can be achieved for face texture segmentation. Ultimately, knowing the player's pose solves many of the problems encountered by simple local image feature based methods, but is a difficult and non-trivial problem. A detection approach is also taken to pose estimation: first as a binary class problem for human detection, and then as a multi-class problem for combined localisation and pose detection. For human detection, a novel formulation of the standard chamfer matching algo- rithm as an SVM classifier is proposed that allows shape template weights to be learnt automatically. This allows templates to be learnt directly from training data even in the presence of background and without the need to pre-process the images to extract their silhouettes. Good results are achieved when compared to a state of the art human detection classifier. For combined pose detection and localisation, a novel and scalable method of ex- ploiting the edge distribution in aligned training images is presented to select the most potentially discriminative locations for local descriptors that allows a much higher space of descriptor configurations to be utilised efficiently. Results are presented that show competitive performance when compared to other combined localisation and pose detection methods.
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Djordjevic, Jelena. "YOUNG MEN'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS COMPUTER- AND VIDEO GAMES. AN INTERVIEW STUDY ABOUT YOUNG MEN’S EXPERIENCES OF COMPUTER- AND VIDEO GAMES." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26768.

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Kunskapen om TV- och datorspelmissbruk bland ungdomar är idag väldigt begränsad. Stillasittande/fysisk inaktivitet, som TV- och datorspel ofta innebär och som kan innebära negativa konsekvenser, blir allt vanligare. En semistrukturerad intervjustudie har genomförts på sju män i åldersgruppen 17-29 år i syfte att undersöka drivkrafterna bakom mäns spelbeteende i tonåren. Dessutom har information om spelmissbruk bland ungdomar inhämtats av fyra yrkesverksamma inom spelområdet. Detta samt kopplingar mellan TV- och datorspel och spel om pengar har gjorts p g a bristen på forskning om TV- och datorspel. De före detta spelmissbrukarna har kategoriserats som fritidsspelare och spelproblematiker (som lyckats sluta missbruka spel på egen hand), samt spelberoende, som fått avstå helt från spel för att få ett slut på sitt missbruk, medan övriga än idag kan spela i måttlig och ytterst liten mängd. Verklig och upplevd kontroll över sig själva och omgivningen har varit viktiga determinanter för informanternas spelmissbruk. Anledningarna till att de slutade/minskade på spelandet är att de i huvudsak tappade intresset för spel (dock inte helt), fick andra prioriteringar och/eller inte ville få återfall där de återgår till sitt gamla missbruksbeteende. Spelandet har haft en funktion som flykt från en problematisk livssituation, vilken med tiden endast förvärrats för de spelberoende parallellt med missbruket. Även upplevelsen av direkt, tillfällig tillfredsställelse har varit en stor drivkraft samtidigt som det har lett till spelmissbruket. Det tidsödande fritidsintresset fick konsekvenser på den psykiska och fysiska hälsan och beteendet, utvecklingen, relationer till närstående, familjesituationen, skolgången, den sociala etableringen samt den socioekonomiska situationen, vilket sammanfattningsvis ledde till att informanterna utvecklade en ohälsosam och ofta destruktiv livsstil.
The knowledge of computer- and video game abuse and addiction among young people is very limited today. The sedentary lifestyle and physical inactivity that computer- and video games often involve can have negative consequences, and are becoming more common. A semi-structured interview was conducted on seven men between the ages of 17-29 in order to examine the driving forces behind men’s gaming behavior in their adolescence. In addition, information about game abuse among young people was gathered from professionals in the area of computer- and video games. This and links between computer- and video games and gambling have been made due to the lack of research on video and computer games. The former video game addicts have been categorized as recreational players, game problematics (who by themselves managed to stop abusing games) and game addicts, who have completely abstained from gaming to put an end to their addiction, while the others still play moderately and very little today. Actual and perceived control over themselves and their environment has been important determinants for the player’s former addiction. The reason why they stopped/decreased the gaming is essentially because they lost interest in games (not completely though), got other priorities and/or did not want to relapse and return to old problematic behavior. Gaming as an escape from a problematic life situation was a common feature among the addicts. The situation for the game addicts only worsened with time along with their game abuse. Although the experience of direct, incidental satisfaction has been a major driving force, it simultaneously led to game abuse. The time-consuming leisure activity had consequences on the mental and physical health, behavior and social development, as well as on the relationships to relatives, family situation, school attendance, social establishment and socioeconomic situation. To sum up, the informants developed an unhealthy and often destructive lifestyle because of the game habits.
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Yan, Jingjing. "Gender and computer games / video games : girls’ perspective orientation." Thesis, Gotland University, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-575.

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The topic of this thesis is “Gender Differences in Computer games/ Video games Industry”. Due to rapid development in technology and popularization of computers all around the world, computer games have already become a kind of common entertainment. Because computer games were designed especially for boys at the very beginning, there are still some remaining barriers when training female game designers and expanding game markets among female players.This thesis is mainly based on two studies which have enormous contributions to gender issue in computer games area. A simple model is established by summarizing factors mentioned and discussed in those two books. The main purpose consists of two comparisons under Gender Differences: one comparison is between the current data with the previous one, in order to check whether there are any changes during the past 10 years. The other one compares the young people in two regions, Sweden and China, in computer games perspective.Model designing, test, questionnaire and interview methods are used in this paper aiming to collect and categorize the data, which facilitates to analyze the results of the comparisons. The results reflect that although computer becomes a familiar “friend” in modern daily life, there are not obvious changes of girls‟ perspectives in computer game industry. Certainly, there are some differences between the young people coming from two regions which will be expounded in the thesis.

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Rören, Jonas. "Best of Both Worlds: A Platform for Hybrids of Computer Games and Board Games." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22398.

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This report describes my work with developing a game for a gaming platform that enables hybrids between board games and computer games. My ambition has been to develop a game that takes advantage of the novel possibilities that this platform permits. Among those are to operate with a combination of the computer game traits of complexity in the games and ease of playing; as well as the board game / card game traits of combining social dynamics around a game session with ability to keep information hidden from other players. This is accomplished by a combination of mobile phones and a computer connected to the Internet. The screen of the computer will serve as board and the phones will display cards and other private information to the players, as well as functioning as the players' means for interaction with the game. The game developed, Wind Bugs, takes advantage of the complexity of game states that a computer easily can handle. Effort has been put into finding mechanics with a level of complexity while still implementing them in way that makes them both playable and enjoyable. Rather than focusing on immersion, which has become common in the design of computer games, hopes are that games for this platform, including the game developed in this project, will give room to social dynamics among the players. Though operating with the use of mobile phones, the platform will not support "mobile gaming"; the proposed setting is a group of players surrounding a big screen.
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Areizaga, Ander. "Programming learning games : Identification of game design patterns in programming learning games." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17230.

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There is a high demand for program developers, but the dropouts from computer science courses are also high and course enrolments keep decreasing. In order to overcome that situation, several studies have found serious games as good tools for education in programming learning. As an outcome from such research, several game solutions for programming learning have appeared, each of them using a different approach. Some of these games are only used in the research field where others are published in commercial stores. The problem with commercial games is that they do not offer a clear map of the different programming concepts. This dissertation addresses this problem and analyses which fundamental programming concepts that are represented in commercial games for programming learning. The study also identifies game design patterns used to represent these concepts. The result of this study shows topics that are represented more commonly in commercial games and what game design patterns are used for that. This thesis identifies a set of game design patterns in the 20 commercial games that were analysed. A description as well as some examples of the games where it is found is included for each of these patterns. As a conclusion, this research shows that from the list of the determined fundamental programming topics only a few of them are greatly represented in commercial games where the others have nearly no representation. This shows potential spots for future research in games for programming teaching.
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Løland, Karl Syvert. "Intelligent agents in computer games." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-9759.

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In this project we examine whether or not a intelligent agent can learn how to play a computer game using the same inputs and outputs as a human. An agent architecture is chosen, implemented, and tested on a standard first person shooter game to see if it can learn how to play that game and find a goal in that game. We conclude the report by discussing potential improvements to the current implementation.

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Books on the topic "Computer games"

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Cazenave, Tristan, Mark H. M. Winands, and Hiroyuki Iida, eds. Computer Games. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05428-5.

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Cazenave, Tristan, Mark H. M. Winands, and Abdallah Saffidine, eds. Computer Games. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75931-9.

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Cazenave, Tristan, Mark H. M. Winands, and Yngvi Björnsson, eds. Computer Games. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14923-3.

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Cazenave, Tristan, Mark H. M. Winands, Stefan Edelkamp, Stephan Schiffel, Michael Thielscher, and Julian Togelius, eds. Computer Games. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57969-6.

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Cazenave, Tristan, Abdallah Saffidine, and Nathan Sturtevant, eds. Computer Games. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24337-1.

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Cazenave, Tristan, Mark H. M. Winands, Stefan Edelkamp, Stephan Schiffel, Michael Thielscher, and Julian Togelius, eds. Computer Games. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39402-2.

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L, Levy David N., ed. Computer games. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988.

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Marcus, Milton, Betts Robin, and Waldock Henry, eds. Games. New York: Gloucester Press, 1985.

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Levy, David N. L., ed. Computer Games I. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8716-9.

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Levy, David N. L., ed. Computer Games II. New York, NY: Springer US, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8754-1.

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Book chapters on the topic "Computer games"

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Drumwright, Evan. "Games, Computer." In Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, 924–26. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_1221.

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Watkiss, Stewart. "Creating Computer Games." In Beginning Game Programming with Pygame Zero, 1–10. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5650-3_1.

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Walsh, Vincent. "Games on Computers." In Computer Literacy, 135–38. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07674-1_25.

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Seiwald, Regina. "Games Within Games." In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 18–31. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37983-4_2.

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Closa, Daniel, Alex Gardiner, Falk Giemsa, and Jörg Machek. "Games." In Patent Law for Computer Scientists, 129–42. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05078-7_9.

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Littman, Michael L. "Review: Computer Language Games." In Computers and Games, 396–404. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45579-5_26.

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Schmuck, Anne-Kathrin, Philippe Heim, Rayna Dimitrova, and Satya Prakash Nayak. "Localized Attractor Computations for Infinite-State Games." In Computer Aided Verification, 135–58. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65633-0_7.

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AbstractInfinite-state games are a commonly used model for the synthesis of reactive systems with unbounded data domains. Symbolic methods for solving such games need to be able to construct intricate arguments to establish the existence of winning strategies. Often, large problem instances require prohibitively complex arguments. Therefore, techniques that identify smaller and simpler sub-problems and exploit the respective results for the given game-solving task are highly desirable.In this paper, we propose the first such technique for infinite-state games. The main idea is to enhance symbolic game-solving with the results of localized attractor computations performed in sub-games. The crux of our approach lies in identifying useful sub-games by computing permissive winning strategy templates in finite abstractions of the infinite-state game. The experimental evaluation of our method demonstrates that it outperforms existing techniques and is applicable to infinite-state games beyond the state of the art.
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Baillot, Patrick, Vincent Danos, Thomas Ehrhard, and Laurent Regnier. "Timeless games." In Computer Science Logic, 56–77. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bfb0028007.

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Carvalho, Luiz Paulo, Flávia Maria Santoro, Jonice Oliveira, and Rosa Maria M. Costa. "Ethics and Games, Ethical Games and Ethics in Game." In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 134–58. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27639-2_7.

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Hogg, Chad, Stephen Lee-Urban, Héctor Muñoz-Avila, Bryan Auslander, and Megan Smith. "Game AI for Domination Games." In Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games, 83–101. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8188-2_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Computer games"

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Stanescu, Monica, Jurate Stanislovaitiene, and Doina Croitoru. "PHYSICAL EXERCISES AND COMPUTER-BASED GAMES: FROM PLAYGROUND TO SERIOUS GAMES AND EXERGAMES." In eLSE 2019. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-19-207.

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The technological and informational development of the last decades has also been an opportunity for the physical exercises field to benefit from the computer-based games effects, through the integration of functional indicators into a set of educational stimuli that aim to motivate and train people for a healthy and sustainable physical activity. Inspired by the characteristics of motor activities, both in structural terms and in physical and psychological demands, computer-based games are now widely used as specific learning tools as serious games and exergames. Nowadays both type of games contributes to the achievement of the specific objectives of different motor activities. The paper aims to present an analysis of the serious games and exergames used in the field by applying a series of scientific criteria and to highlight their contribution at the specific learning process and fitness development. On the other hand, literature review has enabled authors to highlight the main research directions of using computer-based games in motor activities, providing important milestones for expanding the research area. The conclusions of the paper are consistent methodological landmarks for specialists who want to modernize the training process through the use of computer-based games, as well as for the IT specialists who can develop new technologies and software products for this area. ++++++++ serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports
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Stoffova, Veronika. "EDUCATIONAL COMPUTER GAMES IN PROGRAMMING TEACHING AND LEARNING." In eLSE 2019. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-19-004.

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Computer games are at present very popular for all ages of users, computers and other digital devices that allow them to play. Creation and implementation of didactic computer games and the desire to create their own games is enough motivation for both high school, college and university students learn programming. The article describes the problem and project teaching of programming at the college and university, where the theme of the project is the implementation of didactic computer game of their choice. The project can be realized as an individual or group project. Programming environment or programming language to implement the computer game is freely selectable. Students can work in any higher programming language with a rich graphics library, or they can use a programming environment that supports computer games creation. Depends on the skill of the programmers/developers/team members how to share the work. Can be individually addressed by the individual functional parts of the game, or work can be divided into separate layers. Each team member is engaged with him in what is good, for what who has better conditions to be successful and achieve a good result. E.g. one focuses on graphic design of game, next to the algorithms that express check compliance with the rules of the game, next member of team developing winning strategies, other looks at how the game stopped and resumed, how increases the difficulty level of the game as power play value and how the achieved good performance. Solving the project students learn to work in a team and practically use the knowledge from the field of software engineering.
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Hartley, Thomas P., and Qasim H. Mehdi. "In-game tactic adaptation for interactive computer games." In Serious Games (CGAMES). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cgames.2011.6000358.

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Cirnu, Carmen elena, Zlatko Nedelko, Ioana andreea Stefan, Antoniu Stefan, and Daniela Militaru. "THE EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF COMMERCIAL COMPUTER GAMES." In eLSE 2012. Editura Universitara, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-12-143.

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The advances in information and communication technologies have generated a radical shift in the experiences and interests of the twenty-first century learners. The new digital technologies embedded in people’s daily life along with the massive adoption of computer games has created a diversity of new needs and preferences that has extended to reach the educational environment. The integration of computer games into the educational process has emerged as a necessity, as well as a challenging opportunity for many teachers. While researches reveal the multiple benefits that the use of computer games bring to education in terms of skills development, increased motivation and collaborative capacity, evaluation, decision-making, game development and implementation is not an easy endeavour. Moreover, many teachers are not fully aware of the pedagogical uses and benefits of computer games. Under this premises, the authors advance commercial computer games as a valid, cost-efficient alternative for teachers that wish to experiment the potential of using games in education, and present the results of a case study that investigates potential uses of commercial computer games in education. The purpose of this paper is to inform educators on factors that could contribute to the adoption of computer games within educational environments. The paper analyses how commercial computer games can genuinely add value to education, and explores the main strength and weaknesses of employing commercial computer games for educational purposes. The results have indicated that commercial computer games represent an alternative solution for game-based learning and it can be employed successfully within specific learning processes.
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Stoffova, Veronika. "COMPUTER GAMES IN PROGRAMMING TEACHING AND LEARNING." In eLSE 2020. University Publishing House, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-20-009.

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Computer games are nowadays very popular among various generations especially for children and youth. Creation and implementation of own games are challenging to learn the programming for both, high school and university students. The article describes the problem and project teaching and learning of programming at the university, where the theme of the project is "the implementation of didactic computer game of their choice." The project can be implemented as an individual work, in pairs or in group of students. Programming environment or programming language to implement the computer game is freely selectable. Students can work in any higher programming language with a rich graphics library, or they can use a programming environment that supports computer games creation. Depends on the skill of the developer team members how to share the work. Can be individually addressed by the individual functional parts of the game, or work can be divided into separate layers. Each team member is engaged with him in what is good, for what who has better conditions to be successful and achieve a good result. E.g. one focuses on graphic design of game, next to the algorithms that express check compliance with the rules of the game, other member of team developing winning strategies or looks at how the game stopped and resumed, how increases the difficulty level of the game as power play value and how the achieved good performance. Solving the project students learn to work in a team and spontaneously and intuitively use the knowledge from the field of software engineering. It is their first experience in creating a software application together
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Tomsons, Dzintars, and Inta Znotiņa. "DEVELEPMENT OF COMPUTER-BASED EDUCATIONAL GAME ACROSS COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUM." In 1st International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education. Scientia Socialis Ltd., 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/balticste/2015.92.

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The current paper describes the use of game development for improvement of first year Computer Science students’ professional and social competencies. The computer-based education games play grateful platform for integration of knowledge and skills gained by students in several learning courses, i.e., programming, web-design, computer graphics and animation, introduction to software engineering, etc. The multidisciplinary character of the games provides possibilities to constitute teams with students from different study programs. Thereby the students get their first experience in cross-disciplinary communication. Key words: computer-based education, educational games, learning environment.
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Sabo, Helena maria. "COMPUTER GAMES USED IN TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY." In eLSE 2012. Editura Universitara, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-12-135.

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Abstract: School as a starting environment for young people for life, is obliged to show receptive to innovations in technology. Using the latest techniques for teaching is designed to facilitate learning, but also to familiarize them with the tools, which will be used widely in the near future. Computer games nowadays have become very popular among children. Many of them spend few hours per day playing. Depending on type, computer games could have positive or negative effects on children. Accepting the fact that children like to play video games, a good teacher can use these games for increasing motivation and learning results. It is important that children, especially those living on a risk area, learn about natural hazards and how to prevent their negative effects. Playing computer games specialized on this topic could be an attractive way of learning about risk management. In this article, we present some computer games, which are attractive to children, using concrete applications about natural hazards and urban planning. Risk management games are very helpful tot each pupils how to protect themselves against the destruction power of natural hazards. Playing these games pupils learn how to manage the risk in case of a natural hazards, and they will have some knowledge about how to plan a city, how to develop it. The focus is on the presentation of the OIKOS risk management game. This game is considered very important in teaching geography; this is also an important aspect: sometimes we take decisions without thinking of the future. In this way, it follows the formation of a factor of environment awareness and responsibilities. Despite numerous advantages, the possibility of using modern technical means in education is very limited because most units do not have educational interactive board, and in places were this boards exist their number is reduced. This is explained by the relatively high costs of all equipment necessary for the operation, but also from news reluctance technology.
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Meimaris, Michael. "Computer games-based learning." In the 3rd international conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1413634.1413639.

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Caffry, Liz, Elisabeth Cameron, Carla Roth, and Bill Zullo. "Museums and computer games." In ACM SIGGRAPH 99 Conference abstracts and applications. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/311625.311707.

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Lopetegui, Eneko, Begona Garcia Zapirain, and Amaia Mendez. "Tennis computer game with brain control using EEG signals." In Serious Games (CGAMES). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cgames.2011.6000344.

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Reports on the topic "Computer games"

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Lily Gullion, Lily Gullion. Understanding Teamwork Using Computer Games. Experiment, March 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18258/4913.

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Jane Hornickel, Jane Hornickel. Educational computer games: How long do benefits last? Experiment, June 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18258/2780.

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Ruchotzke, Ethan. Building Computer Literacy Through Games: A Game Design Resource Compendium for the Innovate-IT Program. Ames (Iowa): Iowa State University, May 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/cc-20240624-327.

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May, John W., and Jr. Computer Simulations and the Army War College, Where Are the Games. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada223289.

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Zimmerman, Daniel M., Brian Rothstein, Yevgeniy Kaganovich, and Khai Pahm. Constructing Client-Server Multi-Player Asynchronous Networked Games Using a Single-Computer Model. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, August 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada446104.

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Lewis, Jeremy R. Using Commercial-off-the-Shelf Computer Games to Train and Educate Complexity and Complex Decision-Making. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada510008.

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Haylock, Stuart. Limbs Alive: Use of computer games to provide motivating, child centred therapy to improve bimanual skills for children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. National Institute for Health Research, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.1115160.1.

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Ismailova, L. Yu, O. O. Zhuravleva, O. I. Bazhenova, V. S. Zaytsev, and I. O. Sleptsov. educational computer game "family meeting" (version 1.0). SIB-Expertise, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/er0578.04072022.

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COMPUTER LEARNING GAME DESIGNED TO STUDY FAMILY LAW. THE GAME ALLOWS IN AN INTERACTIVE MODE TO TEST YOUR STRENGTH IN SOLVING A LARGE NUMBER OF THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL QUESTIONS. THE STUDENT CAN WORK OUT NEW TOPICS BY USING THE GAME’S EXPLANATIONS AND REFERENCES TO NORMATIVE ACTS SO CHECK YOUR UPTAKE. THE GAME CHARACTERS AND THEIR EXPRESSIONS MOTIVATE THE PLAYER TO CAREFULLY WORK WITH THE OBJECT AND THE OBJECT OF THE GAME AND TO WORK ON THESE TOPICS INDEPENDENTLY. THE CONTENT OF THE GAME IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATE STANDARD PROGRAM OF "JURISPRUDENCE". THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE GAME. THE GAME "THE MEETING" CAN BE USEFUL FOR LAW STUDENTS AND FACULTIES, PRACTISING LAWYERS AND ANYONE WISHING TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALIFICATIONS IN THE FIELD OF FAMILY LAW.
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Gautier-Downes, Catherine. Final Report: Computer Games to Teach Geography: El Nino: Mysteries of the Pacific and Mysteries of the Antarctic, August 15, 1994 - June 20, 1998. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), September 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/765700.

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Соловйов, Володимир Миколайович, Наталя Володимирівна Моісеєнко, and Олена Юріївна Тарасова. Complexity theory and dynamic characteristics of cognitive processes. Springer, January 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/4143.

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The features of modeling of the cognitive component of social and humanitarian systems have been considered. An example of using entropy multiscale, multifractal, recurrence and network complexity measures has shown that these and other synergetic models and methods allow us to correctly describe the quantitative differences of cognitive systems. The cognitive process is proposed to be regarded as a separate implementation of an individual cognitive trajectory, which can be represented as a time series and to investigate its static and dynamic features by the methods of complexity theory. Prognostic possibilities of the complex systems theory will allow to correct the corresponding pedagogical technologies. It has been proposed to track and quantitatively describe the cognitive trajectory using specially transformed computer games which can be used to test the processual characteristics of thinking.
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