Card Play Research Articles

Media Education Quartet Card Play on Reproductive Health Learning in Adolescents

Background: The low knowledge of adolescents about reproductive health is due to a variety of factors, among others customs, culture, religion, and the lack of information from the right sources. This lack of knowledge will lead to various impacts that are especially detrimental to the youth group and their families. Preparing adolescent women with adequate knowledge of reproductive health is crucial for optimizing the quality of life of adolescents in the future. Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the influence of quartet card game media education on reproductive health on knowledge in adolescents. Methods: The study uses a pre-experimental research design and one group pre-posttest design. The population in this study is the entire youth SMP YBPK Kota Kediri as many as 50 respondents, sample 24 respondents selected using accidental sampling technique. Free variables are educational media card games about reproductive health and bound variables are knowledge. Quartet card media educational instruments use SOP, and knowledge using questionnaires. Data analysis using the Wilcoxon test. Results: The results of the statistical tests showed that the value of Asymp.Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.01 less than 0.05, then Ha is accepted, meaning there is an influence of the educational media of the quartet card game on reproductive health on knowledge in adolescents. Conclusion: Quartet media can create enjoyable learning situations that can enhance adolescent knowledge about reproductive health.

Early Modern Venetian Sex Work and the Business of Gambling

By the sixteenth century, the ever-growing popularity of casini and ridotti in cities such as Venice resulted in the widespread pursuit of women’s gambling. This article argues that female card play, an activity of skill as well as chance and risk, offered women financial opportunities at a time when they were excluded from most “honorable” forms of income-generating work. They included female sex workers who benefited from the game’s popularity among men of all classes, by luring unsuspecting men into fixed card play. Through close readings of visual and textual representations of these types of gaming practices in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Venice, I consider how they not only shed light on the operations of a moralizing social technology reinforcing class and gender asymmetries but also, when read against the grain, illuminate a new kind of economic independence of women as actors and workers overlooked by scholars.

Children's Early Reading Ability Through Make-A-Match Based Number Card Play Activities

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of playing number cards in improving children's initial reading ability based on making a match with a total sample of 20 children. The research uses a quantitative approach with a pre-experimental type of research using one group pretest-posttest design. Based on the research results, the use of number cards improves children's early reading ability. The results of this increase can be seen in the average value of the indicators used, namely distinguishing words and distinguishing sounds/letters at the time of pretest is 2.05, and the percentage of learning completion is 33%. in the posttest there was an increase of 3.65 and learning completion was achieved for all children. This is because in carrying out word card-playing activities, teachers run well according to the stages of playing word cards and learning scenarios that have been prepared.

Challenging Human Supremacy in Skat

After impressive successes in deterministic and fully-observable board games to significantly outclass humans, game playing research shifts towards non-deterministic and imperfect information card games, where humans are still persistently better. In this paper we devise a player that challenges human supremacy in Skat. We provide a complete player for playing selected variants of the game, with effective solutions for bidding and Skat putting, extracting knowledge from several million games. For trick play we combine expert rules with engineered tree exploration for optimal open card play. For dealing with uncertainty especially in Ouvert games we search the belief space.

TPACK-L: teachers’ pedagogical design thinking for the wise integration of technology

ABSTRACT Wise technology integration is not simply a matter of selecting to use, but a matter of how to effectively use technology in context within the curriculum. Technology integration cognition should thus be thought of as pedagogical design thinking that involves critically examining the affordances of learning technologies and then strategically applying them to teach particular subject matter ideas within a specific classroom context. To better describe such teacher cognition concerning technology integration, this study proposes TPACK-L, an expanded framework for teachers’ technology integration knowledge, by adding the principles of learning theory to the existing TPACK framework, and delineates what this pedagogical design thinking looks like in the context of a specially designed card game, CARD-tamen™. This study also addresses the issue of how to measure technology cognition in-the-moment during card play. Situated cognition served as the framework to assess using card gameplay in context.

Overcoming Vanitas, or Showing One’s Cards

In the article the painting Card Player Showing His Hand by T. Rombouts (17th c. Netherlands) is being interpreted. It is noticed that two existential manifestations may interact in this composition: the gambler’s and Vanitas. In the first part of this article, an analysis is made how Rombouts presents card play as a way of being and how he integrates it into the genre of Vanitas. In the second part the hypothesis, is it proven that the composition of the painting continues the theme of Vanitas and questions it at the same time.

Virtual Reality-Based Cognitive–Motor Rehabilitation in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Controlled Study on Motivation and Cognitive Function

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of virtual reality-based cognitive–motor rehabilitation (VRCMR) on the rehabilitation motivation and cognitive function in older adults. This study enrolled 40 older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), living in the community. The subjects were randomly assigned to a VRCMR group (n = 20) or a conventional cognitive rehabilitation (CCR) group (n = 20). The VRCMR group underwent VRCMR using MOTOcog, a computer recognition program, whereas the CCR group underwent conventional cognitive rehabilitation, which included puzzles, wood blocks, card play, stick construction activity, and maze activity. Both interventions were performed 30 min per day, 5 days/week, for 6 weeks. This study performed a cognitive assessment using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) scale, Trail Making Test A and B (TMT-A/B), and Digit Span Test forward and backward (DST-forward/backward). In addition, a 0-to-10 numeric rating self-report scale was used to assess interest and motivation during the rehabilitation training. After the intervention, the VRCMR group showed a significantly greater improvement in the MoCA (p = 0.045), TMT-A (p = 0.039), TMT-B (p = 0.040), and DST-forward (p = 0.011) scores compared to the CCR group, but not in the DST-backward score (p = 0.424). In addition, subjects in the experimental group had significantly higher interest (p = 0.03) and motivation (p = 0.03) than those in the control group. Cohen’s d effect size was 0.4, 0.3, 0.35, 0.4, and 0.5 for the MoCA, TMT-A, TMT-B, DST-forward, and DST-backward tests, respectively. This study demonstrates that VRCMR enhances motivation for rehabilitation and cognitive function in older adults with MCI better than CCR.

Implicit memory associations and video gaming

Background and objectivesThe aim of this study was to develop measures to assess implicit memory associations for video gaming and to examine the relationship between implicit memory associations, video gaming involvement, and problem video gaming. MethodsA survey of online panelists from across Canada was conducted that included 166 problem video gamers who were recruited for participation in a larger study examining the relationship between gambling, video gaming, and collectible card play. Memory associations were assessed using a 10-item measures of word associations and behaviour associations. Video gaming involvement was assessed via self-report of time and frequency of play, and problem video gaming was assessed using the Behavioral Addiction Measure for Video Gaming (BAM-VG). ResultsSignificant Kendall tau-b correlations ranging from 0.297 to 0.405 were found between measures of memory associations and both level of video gaming involvement and problem video gaming. ConclusionsThere is a robust relationship between memory associations for video gaming with level of video gaming involvement and problem video gaming. The results suggest that implicit associations may have utility in the assessment of problem video gaming.

Maternal use of math facts to support girls' math during card play

This study addresses girls' (6–7-year-olds; N = 162) arithmetic skills within the context of learning environments provided by their mothers. Mothers and daughters were videotaped solving addition problems during card games. Maternal support was assessed through coding math fact hints and addition-strategy suggestions. Their first-grade daughters were then assessed on addition accuracy at end-of-year. Using regression analyses, results showed that maternal use of relevant math facts during the card games was associated with their child's later addition accuracy. Two types of math facts showed this association: (a) those relevant to the numbers to be added on the cards, and (b) novel math facts provided by mothers to scaffold decomposition arithmetic strategy-use. These findings suggest the importance of supportive mathematical interactions during informal games as a possible source of developing girls' early math skills. The study also identifies potentially valuable types of support for early arithmetic learning in informal contexts.

Preschoolers’ broad mathematics experiences with parents during play

The current study broadens our understanding of preschoolers’ early math experiences with parents, recognizing that math knowledge and experiences are inclusive of numeracy as well as non-numeracy domains. Parents and preschoolers (N = 45) were observed exploring three domains of early mathematics knowledge (i.e., number, space, and pattern) during play in three activities (playing cards, building with blocks, and stringing beads, all with activity suggestions). Children were administered a broad math and numeracy measure and individual measures of spatial and patterning skills concurrently and 7 months later. Dyads explored math broadly across most activities but emphasized number more than space or patterning. In addition, there was more overall math exploration during card and bead play than during block play, with the greatest parent support during card play. Parent support was not linked to children’s skills, although children’s exploration of space and patterns related moderately to their concurrent spatial and pattern skills. Overall, parents and young children explored a variety of early math domains in guided play contexts, with an emphasis on numeracy. Future work should aim to increase the breadth and rigor of individual concepts that parents and preschoolers explore during play.

A sixpence at whist: gaming and the English middle classes, 1680-1830

Enlightenment thinking - the drive for order, organisation and rationality - was an underlying motive force in England's eighteenth century, influencing middle class thinking with regard to the running and improvement of business. In the same way, it shaped their choice of leisure activities. As many turned their backs on blood sports, they found that music, conversation and cards embodied rational enjoyment and exercise of human intellect and ability. For the middle classes, card play made use of skills they had in hand and could be justified on the basis of teaching the young their numbers and the importance of accounting for money lost and won. The careful score-keeping, the accounting for sums won and lost, and the order and discipline of these players' favourite card games echoed and suited their tidy lives. As important participants in polite society on the strength of their new wealth and their increasing social prominence, the middle classes embraced the agreeable pastimes of gentility while rejecting its dangerous extremes. Card play became a means of forming and reinforcing social and commercial bonds within complex webs of family and business circles. As they tugged the fashionable activity of gaming onto their own playing-field from the high-risk arena of the aristocracy, the middle classes were imposing order on disorder, subjecting a reckless activity to new restraints. Drawing on the personal papers of the commercial and professional classes of eighteenth-century England, A Sixpence at Whist tells the stories of these men and women at play.BR> JANET E. MULLIN is Lecturer in History at St. Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick, both in Fredericton, N.B., Canada.

Breaks in Play: Do They Achieve Intended Aims?

Breaks in play represent a responsible gambling strategy designed to disrupt states of dissociation and enhance the likelihood of drawing attention to a player's session behaviour and expenditure with respect to time and money. The aim of the break in play is to motivate the player to modify or cease gambling so the activity remains within affordable levels. The aim of this study was to investigate whether imposed breaks in play in the absence of accompanying warning messages were effective in reducing cravings. Participants (141 university students) were randomly allocated to one of three conditions: 15min computer simulated Black Jack play followed by no break, a 3 or 8min break in play. Participants were administered a battery of measures to assess problem gambling card play, cravings, and dissociation to assess the effects of length of break on cravings. Results indicated that cravings increased rather than decreased with imposed breaks in play, and that the strength of cravings were higher following the eight- compared to 3-min break. It was concluded that breaks in play in isolation might produce counterproductive, unintended, and even perverse effects. The policy implications for responsible gambling strategies is that breaks in play ought to be accompanied with warning and/or personal appraisal messages if optimal effects in reducing within session gambling expenditure are to be achieved.

"I was that close": Investigating Players' Reactions to Losses, Wins, and Near-Misses on Scratch Cards.

While scratch cards are a popular, accessible, and inexpensive form of gambling, very little is known about how they affect and influence the player. This study sought to understand the physiological and subjective experience of scratch card play, with special emphasis on the effect of near-miss outcomes (i.e. uncovering two out of three “grand prize” symbols needed to win said prize), which are remarkably prevalent in scratch card games. Thirty-eight undergraduate students from the University of Waterloo each played two custom scratch card games and experienced three types of outcomes (losses, wins and near-misses) while their skin conductance levels (SCLs) and post-reinforcement pauses were recorded. Each participant also rated each outcome in terms of its subjective level of arousal, valence, and frustration. Our results indicate that players interpreted near-misses as negatively valenced, highly arousing, frustrating losses, and were faster to move onto the next game following this type of outcome than following winning outcomes. Additionally, near-miss outcomes were associated with the largest amount of change in SCLs as the outcome was revealed. This work has implications for the problem gambling literature as it provides evidence of the frustration hypothesis of near-misses in scratch cards, and is the first study to examine the physiological and psychological experiences of scratch card players.

Pope's Game of Ombre

IT is astonishing that an entirely satisfactory reconstruction of the card game in Alexander Pope’s mock-heroic satire has eluded scholars for so long.1 Most violate close reading of the text, the rules of the game, or the tenets of good card play. Long ago William K. Wimsatt insisted that a complete reconstruction was impossible, and cautioned that by the extent to which any reconstruction exceeded the evidence given, it could have no critical bearing on the poem.2 Wimsatt might have conceded two corollaries: that a complete reconstruction was unnecessary, and that by the extent to which any reconstruction falls short of the evidence given—in that it ignores several particularly opaque lines—it has diminished critical bearing. The task is not that daunting. The first logical step is to examine the complete forty-card Ombre deck from which the three nine-card hands are dealt. Spanish Ombre deck From a knowledge of the rules and good card play, along with a close reading of Pope’s text—the only tools available, but tools available to Pope’s contemporary audience—four important but enormously simplifying inferences lead to an incomplete but entirely satisfactory reconstruction: Sixteen of the twenty-seven cards dealt are fully identified—all twelve court cards, three of the four aces, and one of the twenty-four plebeian cards. Pope’s simplified card deck—back into which the three hands must fit—will look like this.

Cards on the Table: The Middling Sort as Suppliers and Consumers of English Leisure Culture in the Eighteenth Century

The culture of gaming that pervaded eighteenth-century English society provided many opportunities for the rising middle classes. Not content with enjoying card play in many settings, the middling sort were quick to recognize and exploit the potential for profit in the fast-expanding leisure industry. This paper explores the formalization of card games, the rich material culture of card play, the advent of Assembly Rooms as new social spaces, and the growth of resort towns, all serving as case studies in the commercialization of England's leisure culture.

"We Had Carding": Hospitable Card Play and Polite Domestic Sociability among the Middling Sort in Eighteenth-Century England

"We Had Carding": Hospitable Card Play and Polite Domestic Sociability among the Middling Sort in Eighteenth-Century England

"We Had Carding": Hospitable Card Play and Polite Domestic Sociability Among the Middling Sort in Eighteenth-Century England

England’s eighteenth century snapped and fizzed with novelty: new trade routes, new entertainments, and a newly wealthy merchant/professional class who suddenly had the means and the time to enjoy them all. A new leisure culture evolved, one of gentility and politeness, of ease and good company, and the rising middle classes were eager to sample its many delights. Of these lures, cards and their attendant wagers were among the most fashionable and the most daring: high-living aristocrats, playing to all hours and losing vast sums, had linked card games with irresponsibility and immorality. Both were death to trade and profession: how could the middling sort possibly circle this enticing flame and yet keep their wings unsinged? This paper explores the many ways in which this varied but slowly coalescing group adapted card play, including gaming at cards, to suit their own patterns of home-based hospitality. In taming this particular beast, middling hosts and guests exploited its potential for forming and strengthening neighbourly and professional bonds. Throughout this process, the emerging priorities of these men and women, at once vulnerable to the eddies of oceans and markets, are consistent. For the middling sort, genteel sociability and restraint partnered one another.

Search in Games with Incomplete Information: A Case Study Using Bridge Card Play

Abstract We examine search algorithms in games with incomplete information, formalising a best defence model of such games based on the assumptions typically made when incomplete information problems are analysed in expert texts. We show that equilibrium point strategies for optimal play exist for this model, and define an algorithm capable of computing such strategies. Using this algorithm as a reference we then analyse search architectures that have been proposed for the incomplete information game of Bridge. These architectures select strategies by analysing some statistically significant collection of complete information sub-games. Our model allows us to clearly state the limitations of such architectures in producing expert analysis, and to precisely formalise and distinguish the problems that lead to sub-optimality. We illustrate these problems with simple game trees and with actual play situations from Bridge itself.

Search in games with incomplete information: a case study using Bridge card play

We examine search algorithms in games with incomplete information, formalising a best defence model of such games based on the assumptions typically made when incomplete information problems are analysed in expert texts. We show that equilibrium point strategies for optimal play exist for this model, and define an algorithm capable of computing such strategies. Using this algorithm as a reference we then analyse search architectures that have been proposed for the incomplete information game of Bridge. These architectures select strategies by analysing some statistically significant collection of complete information sub-games. Our model allows us to clearly state the limitations of such architectures in producing expert analysis, and to precisely formalise and distinguish the problems that lead to sub-optimality. We illustrate these problems with simple game trees and with actual play situations from Bridge itself.

A Pilot Study Examining Gambling Behaviour Before and After the Launch of the National Lottery and Scratch Cards in the UK

This study monitored gambling behaviour in 206 residents of Cambridgeshire before and after the launch of United Kingdom's National Lottery. A Gambling questionnaire which included the gambling criteria from the Diagnostic Statistical Manual-IV. questions about demographic data, and National Lottery and scratch cards purchases was administered randomly to residents in Cambridgeshire. The study found that the affirmative responses in the DSM-IV criteria increased significantly at 6 months after the introduction of the National Lottery and remained at that level at the 12 month follow up. Although symptoms of pathological gambling rose, there was no increase in cases of pathological gamblers. Furthermore, individuals with annual household incomes of less than £ 20.000 and individuals with less than an O level education purchased more National Lottery tickets and scratch cards per week. This may suggest that these people may be vulnerable to develop problems with lottery and scratch card play.