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World Champion in Automatic Image and Video Search
December 15, 2009 — How do you find an image or video on the Internet or YouTube without a text description? Researchers have developed software that can find objects and concepts automatically in images and video ... > full story -
'Shoot-'Em-Up' Video Game Increases Teenagers' Science Knowledge
December 8, 2009 — While most American students have an intuitive grasp of popular music, professional sports, and consumer electronics, they lack a basic understanding of cell biology. The Federation of American ... > full story -
Building Real Security With Virtual Worlds
November 26, 2009 — Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore and ... > full story -
Organizational Psychologists Use Rock Band to Study How People Achieve Flow While at Work
November 24, 2009 — Using the video game Rock Band, organizational psychologists have found that -- like Goldilocks -- most people achieve flow with work that is neither too easy nor too hard but just ... > full story -
Can Playing Active Video Games Equal Moderate Intensity Exercise?
November 16, 2009 — One-third of Wii sport and Wii fit activities provide energy expenditures equal to moderate-intensity exercise. Active video games may help prevent or improve obesity and lifestyle-related diseases, ... > full story -
3-D Software Gives Doctors, Students a View Inside the Body
November 11, 2009 — Researchers have developed technology that turns flat medical scans into vibrant 3-D images that can be shifted, adjusted, zoomed and replayed at ... > full story -
Avatars Can Surreptitiously And Negatively Affect User In Video Games, Virtual Worlds
November 10, 2009 — Although often seen as an inconsequential feature of digital technologies, one's self-representation, or avatar, in a virtual environment can affect the user's thoughts, according to new ... > full story -
New Computer Simulator Helps Design Military Strategies Based On Ants' Movements
November 6, 2009 — Researchers in Spain have designed a system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield following the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move. The scientists have used settings of Panzer ... > full story -
Professor Sees 70 Percent Chance For Yankees To Win 2009 World Series
October 27, 2009 — A mathematician who has applied mathematical modeling techniques to elucidate the dynamics of run scoring in baseball has computed the probability of the Yankees and Phillies winning the World ... > full story -
High Volume Video Gamers Have More Difficulty Staying Attentive
October 13, 2009 — A new study has found that high volume action video game players -- those who play around 40 hours per week -- actually had more difficulty keeping focused on tasks requiring longer, more proactive ... > full story
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