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Avid Online Role-players Do Not Fit Gamer Stereotypes
September 26, 2008 — Players of online role-playing games tend to be older and fitter than suggested by popular stereotypes, survey finds. Older players also log more playing time, and women tend to be more committed to ... > full story -
New Bluetooth System Orients Blind And Sighted Pedestrians
September 23, 2008 — A new Bluetooth system designed primarily for blind people places a layer of information technology over the real world to tell pedestrians about points of interest along their path as they pass ... > full story -
PC Program May Help Teach New Surgeons
September 22, 2008 — New computer game technology can help educate otolaryngology medical students who don't have any anatomical knowledge or surgical experience, according to new ... > full story -
Pervasive Games Promise To Spice Up Daily Life
September 16, 2008 — In the movie The Game, the character is hounded by villains and left for dead in Mexico in an intense version of an alternative reality game. Minus the Hollywood bravado, games that merge the virtual ... > full story -
Aerobic Exercise For The Wheelchair-bound
September 15, 2008 — Simple exercise machine makes it fun for wheelchair users to fight high obesity, diabetes and heart disease ... > full story -
Real-world Behavior And Biases Show Up In Virtual World
September 11, 2008 — Americans are spending increasing amounts of time hanging around virtual worlds in the forms of cartoon-like avatars that change appearances according to users' wills, fly through floating cities in ... > full story -
Driving The Future Of In-vehicle ICT
September 8, 2008 — Information and communications systems in road vehicles are progressing steadily, but the research community behind these developments remains fragmented. Now a European initiative has linked key ... > full story -
Children's Calorie Expenditure, Heart Rate Increase During Active Video Games
September 2, 2008 — Children burn more than four times as many calories per minute playing an active video game than playing a seated game, and their heart rate is also significantly higher with the active game, ... > full story -
How Much Risk Can You Handle? Making Better Investment Decisions
August 26, 2008 — Many Americans make investment decisions with their retirement funds. But they don't always make informed judgments. A new study introduces a new tool that investors can use to choose investments ... > full story -
Computer-generated Images: Hollywood Hair Will Be Captured At Last
August 22, 2008 — Imagine avatars of your favorite actors wandering through 3-D virtual worlds with hair that looks almost exactly like it does in real life. This level of realism for animated hairstyles is one step ... > full story -
Virtual Reality Gets Real
August 18, 2008 — Up to now virtual reality has proved cumbersome as a design tool, but European researchers are finalizing a system that brings ‘virtuality’ to the wider ... > full story -
Virtual Applications Reach Out To Real World
August 16, 2008 — Researchers have developed a series of very clever tools to break through the bottlenecks stalling the widespread adoption of virtual reality. But the compelling applications designed for the system ... > full story
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