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Bringing Second Life To Life: Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities Of A Child
March 10, 2008 — Scientists are engineering video game characters with the capacity to have beliefs and to reason about the beliefs of others. The characters will be able to predict and manipulate the behavior of ... > full story -
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Virtual Reality And Computer Technology Improve Stroke Rehabilitation
March 10, 2008 — A new computer program will be able to identify the type of brain damage a patient has had, to calculate the probability of recovery and recommend the most effective ways to treat the ... > full story -
Astronomers Capture Rare Video Of Meteor Falling To Earth; Hunt For Meteorite
March 7, 2008 — Astronomers have captured rare video of a meteor falling to Earth with one of a network of all-sky cameras in Southern Ontario. On March 5, 2008 cameras captured a video of a large fireball. Now the ... > full story -
Virtual Gaming No Replacement For Real Exercise
March 4, 2008 — Video games like Wii Sports and Dance Dance Revolution can play an important role in getting kids off the couch and involved in physical activity. But are they a replacement for traditional exercise? ... > full story -
Restricting Kids' Video Time Reduces Obesity, Randomized Trial Shows
March 3, 2008 — Entrenched sedentary behavior such as watching television and playing computer video games has been the bane for years of parents of overweight children and physicians trying to help those children ... > full story -
Lending A Robotic Hand To Your Carpentry Education
February 6, 2008 — Up to now, most learning focused on abstract symbolic knowledge like writing, or passive receptive iconic knowledge through images. But there is a third kind, 'enactive' knowledge, or learning by ... > full story -
Video Games Activate Reward Regions Of Brain In Men More Than Women
February 4, 2008 — In a first-of-its-kind imaging study, the Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have shown that the part of the brain that generates rewarding feelings is more activated in men than ... > full story -
For Nutrition Info, Moms Like The Web Best
January 10, 2008 — A Web site is a better source of information on nutrition than a video game or printed pamphlet, according to a study of low-income mothers reported in the Journal of Nutrition Education and ... > full story -
A Better Virtual World, One Tree (or Millions) At A Time
January 8, 2008 — The inability of casual computer users to build 3-D objects is an anchor holding back the promise of virtual worlds, such as Second Life or World of Warcraft. Now computer science researchers are ... > full story -
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Short Sleep Duration Linked To Overweight Condition And Behavioral Problems In Children
January 1, 2008 — The duration of a child's sleep can vary, depending on the time of day, week and year. Further, children who don't get enough nightly sleep are more likely to be overweight and have behavioral ... > full story
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