Video games to engage boys and meet common core: A teacher’s guide

Boys are disengaged from school and are rapidly becoming alienated. Video games show promise to engage boys in motivating and exciting ways. This paper explores the merits of game play, while discovering links between what boys learn in games and the standards that schools administer. Based on qualitative exploration with middle a high school...

Associations between active video gaming and other energy-balance related behaviours in adolescents: a 24-hour recall diary study

Background Active video games may contribute to reducing time spent in sedentary activities, increasing physical activity and preventing excessive weight gain in adolescents. Active video gaming can, however, only be beneficial for weight management when it replaces sedentary activities and not other physical activity, and when it is not...

Active and non-active video gaming among Dutch adolescents: Who plays and how much?

Objectives: The aim of study was to determine prevalence and identify demographic correlates of active and non-active gaming among adolescents. Design: Cross-sectional. Methods: A survey, assessing game behavior and correlates, was conducted among adolescents (12-16 years, n= 373), recruited via schools. Multivariable logistic regression...

Ze lijken veelbelovend: onderzoeker Monique Simons over beweeggames

Minder kinderen die op straat voetballen of verstoppertje spelen en meer kinderen die binnenshuis gamen achter de computer of televisie. Dat is het beeld in 204. Professionalos raken steeds meer geïnteresseerd in de mogelijkheden om beweeggames te gebruiken om kinderen aan te zetten tot meer bewegen, zegt bewegingswetenschapper drs. Monique Simons.

Active video games as a tool to prevent excessive weight gain in adolescents: Rationale, design and methods of a randomized controlled trial

Background: Excessive body weight, low physical activity and excessive sedentary time in youth are major public health concerns. A new generation of video games, the ones that require physical activity to play the games -i.e. active games- may be a promising alternative to traditional non-active games to promote physical activity and reduce...

Assessing agreement of observer- and self-annotations in spontaneous multimodal emotion data

We investigated inter-observer agreement and the reliability of self-reported emotion ratings (i.e., self-raters judging their own emotions) in spontaneous multimodal emotion data. During a multiplayer video game, vocal and facial expressions were recorded (including the game content itself) and were annotated by the players themselves on...

Automatic recognition of spontaneous emotions in speech using acoustic and lexical features

We developed acoustic and lexical classifiers, based on a boosting algorithm, to assess the separability on arousal and valence dimensions in spontaneous emotional speech. The spontaneous emotional speech data was acquired by inviting subjects to play a first-person shooter video game. Our acoustic classifiers performed significantly better than...