Attention Games
Attention Games

Author: Barbara Sher

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-12-17

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1118040511

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If you want to focus children's attention, you first have to capture their interest. Attention Games is filled with interesting and child-tested activities that can help children of all ages become better at focusing and paying attention. By sharing the upbeat, joyful activities in Attention Games, you can enhance your child's intelligence, boost his confidence, increase his ability to concentrate on one thing for long periods, and show that you care. Developed by Barbara Sher—parent, teacher, play therapy specialist and pediatric occupational therapist—these activities are specially designed to encourage kids to expand their powers of attention in ways that will help them throughout their lives.

Video Games
Video Games

Author: Nicholas David Bowman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-16

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1351235249

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This entry in the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, born out of the April 2017 BEA Research Symposium, takes a look at video games, outlining the characteristics of them as cognitive, emotional, physical, and social demanding technologies, and introduces readers to current research on video games. The diverse array of contributors in this volume offer bleeding-edge perspectives on both current and emerging scholarship. The chapters here contain radical approaches that add to the literature on electronic media studies generally and video game studies specifically. By taking such a forward-looking approach, this volume aims to collect foundational writings for the future of gaming studies.

Video Game Influences on Aggression, Cognition, and Attention
Video Game Influences on Aggression, Cognition, and Attention

Author: Christopher J. Ferguson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 3319954954

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This book addresses the ongoing scientific debates regarding video games and their effects on players. The book features opposing perspectives and offers point and counterpoint exchanges in which researchers on both sides of a specific topic make their best case for their findings and analysis. Chapters cover both positive and negative effects of video games on players’ behavior and cognition, from contributing to violence and alienation to promoting therapeutic outcomes for types of cognitive dysfunction. The contrasting viewpoints model presents respectful scientific debate, encourages open dialogue, and allows readers to come to informed conclusions. Key questions addressed include: · Do violent video games promote violence? · Does video game addiction exist? · Should parents limit children’s use of interactive media? · Do action video games promote visual attention? · Does sexist content in video games promote misogyny in real life? · Can video games slow the progress of dementia? · Are video games socially isolating? Video Game Influences on Aggression, Cognition, and Attention is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and professionals as well as graduate students in developmental psychology, social work, educational policy and politics, criminology/criminal justice, child and school psychology, sociology, media law, and other related disciplines.

“Pay Attention, Please!”, Ages 4 - 11
“Pay Attention, Please!”, Ages 4 - 11

Author: Flora

Publisher: Key Education Publishing

Published: 2010-05-18

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1602688869

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Help students in grades PK–5 work out their wiggles using "Pay Attention, Please!" This 64-page book helps students with ADHD and students who are otherwise wiggly and overly busy learn how to pay better attention and focus for longer periods of time. It includes games and activities that strengthen listening, concentration, visual, and auditory memory skills; assist students in learning relaxation techniques; provide students healthy ways to burn excess energy; and help students discover ways to control overstimulation and impulsivity.

Everything Bad is Good for You
Everything Bad is Good for You

Author: Steven Johnson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-05-02

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1101158018

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From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop culture we soak in every day—from Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsons—has been growing more sophisticated with each passing year, and, far from rotting our brains, is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are actually making our minds measurably sharper. After reading Everything Bad is Good for You, you will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same way again. With a new afterword by the author.

HCI in Games
HCI in Games

Author: Xiaowen Fang

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-08

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 3031359798

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This two-volume set of HCI-Games 2023, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on HCI in Games, held as Part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which took place in July 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The total of 1578 papers and 396 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 7472 submissions. The HCI in Games 2023 proceedings intends to help, promote and encourage research in this field by providing a forum for interaction and exchanges among researchers, academics, and practitioners in the fields of HCI and games. The Conference addresses HCI principles, methods and tools for better games.

Video Games as Tools to Achieve Insight into Cognitive Processes
Video Games as Tools to Achieve Insight into Cognitive Processes

Author: Walter R. Boot

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2015-06-04

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 2889195538

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Though traditionally designed for entertainment, video games are being used more and more by psychologists to understand topics such as skill acquisition, cognitive capacity and plasticity, aging, individual differences, and development. The appeal of using video games over simpler laboratory paradigms partly comes from their ability to present rich and complex cognitive challenges more representative of the demands of the complex everyday tasks we perform outside of the laboratory. However, this complexity also presents a host of methodological and analytic challenges. This Research Topic brings together research using games to explore cognitive processes, with a special focus on the challenges of this approach. Challenges are in terms of design, implementation, or data analysis.

Casual Game Design
Casual Game Design

Author: Gregory Trefry

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2010-01-26

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1498717357

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From Windows Solitaire to Bejeweled to Wii Tennis, casual games have radically changed the landscape of games. By simplifying gameplay and providing quick but intense blasts of engaging play, casual games have drawn in huge new audiences of players. To entertain and engage the casual player, game designers must learn to think about what makes casua

Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2022
Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2022

Author: Barbara Göbl

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-10-24

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 3031202120

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21sth IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2022, which was supposed to take place in Bremen, Germany, in November 2022. The 13 full papers, 13 short papers and 12 other papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. ICEC brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse backgrounds to discuss the multidisciplinary intersection of design, art, entertainment, interaction, computing, psychology in the fields of gaming and entertainment computing.