Game Phenomenon Research Articles

The Potential of Virtual Environments to Support Soft-Skill Acquisition for Individuals with Autism

This study examined the phenomenon of online gaming to describe the social interactions of young adults with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as they socialize and develop relationships within virtual environments. This research built upon previous literature related to the identification of alternate modes of developing social skills and interpersonal relationships of adolescents with ASD by exploring the social implications of virtual environments. Young adults with autism experience grim outcomes such as low enrollment in postsecondary education, low wages, few living independently, and few maintaining full time employment as a result of poor social skills. Given the availability of online mediums such as massively multiplayer online role playing games, discussion forums, chat rooms, and other social media, individuals with ASD have opportunities to interact without the constraints of face-to-face settings. A phenomenological study was employed using multi-sourced data. Findings yielded 15 initial codes that were developed into five main themes. Findings support a recognition and reciprocation of emotions, friendship development, and role identification. Additionally, the findings support skills required to be successful in postsecondary situations, specifically aligned with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Avatars Going Mainstream: Typology of Tropes in Avatar-Based Storytelling Practices

Due to the growing popularity of video games, gaming itself has become a shared experience among media audiences worldwide. The phenomenon of avatar-based games has led to the emergence of new storytelling practices. The paper proposes a typology of tropes in these avatar-based narratives focusing on non-game case studies. Suggested tropes are also confronted with the latest research on avatars in the area of game studies and current knowledge of the issues concerning the player-avatar relationship. Some of the most popular misconceptions regarding the gameplay experience and its representation in non-game media are exposed as a result of this analysis. The research confirms that popular culture perceives gaming experience as closely related to the player identity, as the latter inspires new genres of non-game narratives.

Brain involvement in the use of games in nursing education

In this high-speed world in which everything is technologically driven, higher education also needs to incorporate technology into the scope of teaching pedagogy. Aligning educational games with the nursing curriculum is one way to address the need for technologically knowledgeable learners. Learning occurs in gaming environment is experimental, and constructive. Albeit, threading them in the nursing curriculum required in-depth knowledge about understanding brain involvement in this process. Nurse educators can thread gaming into the nursing content to ensure that learning occurs in a friendly environment. Learning games stimulates the release of dopamine in the midbrain, and the learning becomes part of long-term memory. The games must challenge and augment students’ interest so they get involved in the learning journey. The challenging environment, with clearly listed goals and ongoing feedback enhances learners’ interest and learning become part of their long-term memory. Gaming is an incomparable way of helping nursing students to learn actively and master learning skills. This literature review will discuss the phenomenon of gaming in education, the parts of brain that involved in educational games, scaffolding teaching and learning theories in designing educational games to improve and at last highlight the significance of gaming in nursing pedagogy. Use of games will open new horizon of possibilities to address various learning of different kinds of learners. This paper will act as a foundation to better comprehend the effective use of virtual world in academia.

КОМПЬЮТЕРНЫЕ ИГРЫ И НОВЫЕ МЕДИА: ИГРОВОЙ ПОДХОД К КОММУНИКАЦИЯМ В ВИРТУАЛЬНОМ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ

The author of the article states that there is a problem of a controlled transition to the WWW of a passive audience that perceives online information on the type of traditional media consumers. In this regard, she suggests that researchers focus on the phenomenon of computer games that develop the ability of Internet users to evolve analytical thinking and work independently with information. Thus, the quality of proactivity is formed in the audience. The article deals with the classification of computer games that is relevant for new media. It is based on active action options for players. This is an instrumental embodiment of the subject-subject model of network communication.

The Game Pokemon Go as a Crosscultural Phenomenon

The gaming culture of modern childhood takes place not only in real space, but in a virtual one too. These two components (two planes of development) are often viewed in isolation from one another. This study investigates the completely new phenomenon of augmented reality gaming through the lens of Pokemon Go, and it describes how the game has been able to transcend social, physical, and virtual spaces. We focus on the most active group of users of this mobile app, namely teenagers. We describe how the game satisfies the psychological needs of this age group. We attempt to understand the cross-cultural phenomenon of this game and the course of development these new forms of activity by modern teenagers may take in the future.

Towards an Understanding of the Origins of the Favourite–Longshot Bias: Evidence from Online Poker Markets, a Real‐money Natural Laboratory

Evidence of differential returns to bets placed with different probabilities of success has revealed a broadly systematic tendency for low/high‐probability events to be relatively overbet/underbet, a phenomenon known as the favourite–longshot bias. While most of the literature focuses on sports, especially horse racing, we report here the existence of the same phenomenon in online poker games. We find that misperception rather than risk‐love offers the best explanation for the behaviour that we identify. This paper contributes to the more general literature explaining betting behaviour as well as the prevalence of the favourite–longshot bias in betting markets.

Research on the Regional Cooperation of Technological Innovation in Food Industry Cluster

This study analyzes the technological innovation in food industry cluster cooperation and the noncooperative game phenomenon between two regions and uses the tools of dynamic differential equations to ensure the realization of time consistency. This study solves the problem of optimal strategies of inter-regional cooperation by differential equations, achieves a reasonable distribution of income under the respective optimal trajectory and explains the cooperation between regional innovation in food industry cluster of food industry cluster from a new perspective, which is an effective way to promote inter-regional cooperation according to the required layout and style.

Игра как мотивация и действие в коррупционном ­социальном

Objective: to analyze the game component in the form of motivation and action, which stimulate the specific corruption form of conduct in the space of social glamorous.Methods: a complex of classical and post-classical research methods, including analytical, phenomenological, and dialectical methods of cognition in relation to game, to gaming motivations and actions, setting a variety of game forms, attesting to its attractiveness, flexibility and plasticity, as well as postmodern paradigm of interpretation of the glamour ideology and a special type of personality - the corrupt official with the characteristics of a trickster.Results: Russian society, being in anomia condition exacerbated by corruption, however, does not give cause for pessimism. Anti-corruption policy, promoting the scientific search of the motivational causes and effects of personality, showing the corrupt behavior and corrupt activity, makes the research results known to a wide audience and introduces them into the practical anti-corruption activity associated with up-bringing, education and promotion of anti-corruption and inclusive way of living that embodies the included state in the mode of “to Be”.102Диалектика противодействия коррупцииThe dialectics of anti-corruptionАктуальные проблемы экономики и права. 2015. № 4Actual Problems of Economics and Law. 2015. No. 4Scientific novelty: the analysis of the game phenomenon can help to detect corruption in the space where the phenomenon presents itself as motivation and action determined by its ontological inclusiveness and gamification of the modern social. The difficulty to identify the game within the context of its epistemological corruption is caused by its gnosiological incomprehensiveness, transformation in the modernity, as well as foggy goals and actions of the corruptionist. The study leads to the identification of a new type of personality - the corruptionist-trickster/ trickster-corruptionist. Knowledge of the gaming motivations and actions of the corruptionist allows to navigate through the complex situations of today, having corrupt motives.Practical significance: the main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in scientific, pedagogical and practical activities in the review and analysis of the state of the modern Russian society, including those relating to corruption and corrupt behavior of an individual.

An incentive game based evolutionary model for crowd sensing networks

Crowd sensing networks can be used for large scale sensing of the physical world or other information service by leveraging the available sensors on the phones. The collector hopes to collect as much as sensed data at relatively low cost. However, the sensing participants want to earn much money at low cost. This paper examines the evolutionary process among participants sensing networks and proposes an evolutionary game model to depict collaborative game phenomenon in the crowd sensing networks based on the principles of game theory in economics. A effectively incentive mechanism is established through corrected the penalty function of the game model accordance with the cooperation rates of the participant, and corrected the game times in accordance with it’s payoff. The collector controls the process of game by adjusting the price function. We find that the proposed incentive game based evolutionary model can help decision makers simulate evolutionary process under various scenarios. The crowd sensing networks structure significantly influence cooperation ratio and the total number of participant involved in the game, and the distribution of population with different game strategy. Through evolutionary game model, the manager can select an optimal price to facilitate the system reach equilibrium state quickly, and get the number of participants involved in the game. The incentive game based evolutionary model in crowd sensing networks provides valuable decision-making support to managers.

THE PLAY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, CULTURE AND PEDAGOGY

The paper considers various concepts of the game phenomenon based on the retrospective analysis of different epochs and relating viewpoints of philosophers, cultural workers and pedagogues; and emphasizes the link between the game genesis and evolution on the one hand and the changes in the mythology, religious and secular customs, traditions and rituals on the other hand. The author refers to Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclites – the ancient philosophers emphasizing the educational, ethical and aesthetic values of the game. The critical and controversial position of the Middle Age Church is reviewed along with the summarized ideas of pedagogues and thinkers of the Renaissance and the age of Enlightenment, all of them recognizing the universal character of game, its versatile influence on the child’s personal development. Philosophical, culturological and pedagogical game concepts developed in different ages prove that the game is a creative instrument and powerful channel for familiarizing children with knowledge, practical experience and mental activity. The game, being a symbolic model of the surrounding world, can be used to the full capacity if the teacher is competent in the game modeling and interactions, ready for improving the game technique, directing and organizing the game environment. Only then, in author’s opinion, the game can turn into one of the key factors of pupils’ individuality formation and harmonious development.

ИГРА КАК ФЕНОМЕН КУЛЬТУРЫ В ОПИСАНИЯХ Й. ХЕЙЗИНГИ И Х. ОРТЕГИ-И-ГАССЕТА

Лисоколенко Т. В. Игра как феномен культуры в описа- ниях Й. Хейзинги и Х. Ортеги-и-Гассета. – Статья. В статье проводится анализ сущности феномена игры в ра- ботах Й. Хейзинги и Х. Ортеги-и-Гассета, выявляются похожие и отличные интерпретации исследуемого феномена. Автор кон- статирует, что ни Й. Хейзинга, ни Х. Ортега-и-Гассет не пред- лагают готовой теории игры, а лишь демонстрируют читателю свое видение проблемы на то, чем является игра в культуре. Оба философа, создавая свои работы в культурном пространстве XX ст., считали, что в современной культуре игровой элемент убывает, исчезновение игры ведет к ее разрушению. Автор приходит к тому, что каждый философ «строит» свою игру. Й. Хейзинга одним из первых предложил понимание игры как разноликой категории, выступающей в роли некой куль- турной универсалии, тогда как у Х. Ортеги-и-Гассета игра представляет собой механизм демонстрации сложности куль- турно-трансформационных процессов, принцип построения модели исследуемого материала, инструмент для работы с тек- стом. Из проведенного анализа следует, что двух философов объединяет разноликость интерпретации феномена игры. Lysokolenko T. V. Game as a cultural phenomenon in the descriptions of J. Huizinga and J. Ortega y Gasset. – Article. The analysis of the essence of the game phenomenon in the works J. Huizinga and J. Ortega y Gasset is being held. The similar and different interpretations of the phenomenon are revealed under the study. The author states that neither J. Huizinga nor Ortega y Gasset offers a ready-made game theory, but only shows the reader his vision of the problem to what is a game in the culture. Both the philosopher, creating their works in the cultural space of the XX century, believed that in modern culture game element decreases, that the disappearance of the game in modern culture leads to its destruction. The author comes to the fact that every philosopher “builds” his game. J. Huizinga was one of the first to offer an understanding of the game as the differently viewed category, serving as a kind of cultural universals. While at J. Ortega y Gasset’s game there is a demonstration of the complexity of the mechanism of cultural transformation processes, the principle of constructing a model of the material, a tool for working with text. From the analysis it follows that the two philosophers are united by the differently viewed interpretation of the phenomenon of the game.

The United States Armed Forces and Their “Bowl” Games From 1942 to 1967

The collective information produced by this academic pursuit supports the goal of identifying the determinants of innovation and the process of intrafirm diffusion regarding organizational innovation. The U.S. military created 111 American football “bowl” games across six continents in 18 countries and 46 host cities from 1942 to 1967. Using the historical method through an ex post facto historical institutionalism interpretive lens, this study found the U.S. Armed Forces, through the dynamic capabilities of its top officers and officials, organized “bowl” games as product innovation and used football as process innovation to manage the massive mobilization and training of men for the various war efforts of that period. Within, we discovered (a) the resolution of crisis, (b) the emergence and recruitment of leaders, (c) the creation/use of novelty, and (d) the capacity to adapt revealed the military “bowl” game phenomenon and American football existed as critical ingredients for organizational innovation and that product innovation can emerge from process innovation and vice versa to support organizational innovation. Furthermore, novelty, although identified as a product innovation, must be supported, promoted, and adapted to create and sustain the goals associated with organizational process innovation. Next, intrafirm diffusion was shown to involve and compel job specialization, imitation/emulation, forged alliances, the creation of special service positions, and the development of newsletters and other internal/external media. Finally, this work supports and recognizes the utility of the “historic turn” with respect to the ability of how history can inform and improve today’s efforts toward innovation.

Языковая игра в библейской фразеологии разных языков

This paper analyzes the phenomenon of language game in phraseological units of biblical origin and the types of set phrases with antonymic components.

Gamified Persuasion

The authors have empirically examined the persuasive properties of digital games from a multidisciplinary perspective. Besides the relevant cultural and psychological theories related to the game phenomenon, the authors have included a case study where a persuasive online activation service was tested among young men (N=280, average 17.9 year old) in the promotion of physical and social activity. The emphasis of the article is on qualitative material, which is based on in-depth interviews of 10 individuals, as well as participant observation considering the user experiences regarding the activation service and gaming in general. The authors have concluded that games contain persuasive characteristics based on human culture and psychology and that these characteristics could effectively be utilized in physically and socially activating games.

Social play or social cheating? Another face of sociability in social network games

This paper explores ideas of cheating and cooperative play in social network games. Despite being criticised for their supposed simplistic and exploitative nature, social network games have created a new game phenomenon, and have demanded a rethinking in the very meaning of social play. Through both empirical analysis of the Facebook game The Sims Social and participant observation of communities of players in Facebook, the paper discusses how social interactions performed within and around the game transform play in a complex articulation of cooperative and transgressive practices, and what implications it might have for the business model underlying social network games at large.

The e-mail game phenomenon

The e-mail game in Rubinstein (1989) shows that types with arbitrarily close higher-order beliefs may differ substantially in strategic behaviors. We define a notion called strategic discontinuity in arbitrary incomplete-information scenarios to generalize this e-mail game phenomenon. We show that almost all types involved in economic analysis — types in finite or common-prior models — display strategic discontinuity in simple games.

Doors and Perception: Fiction vs. Simulation in Games

In this paper, the author outlines a theory of the relationship of fictional, virtual and real elements in games. Not much critical attention has been paid to the concept of fiction when applied to games and game worlds, despite many books, articles and papers using the term, often in the title. Here, it is argued that game worlds and their objects are ontologically different from fictional worlds; they are empirically upheld by the game engine, rather than by our mind stimulated by verbal information. Game phenomena such as labyrinths, moreover, are evidence that games contain elements that are just as real as their equivalents outside the game, and far from equal to the fictional counterparts.

Historia de las publicaciones de los juegos de rol en España

A partir de 1985, se comenzó a publicar material relacionado con los juegos de rol en España. Desde entonces, han aparecido casi un millar y medio de libros o suplementos de rol, tanto de procedencia autóctona como traducidos de otros idiomas.El objetivo del presente trabajo es describir la historia de los juegos de rol en España, atendiendo a los juegos publicados, a sus publicaciones y a las editoriales que han formado parte del fenómeno de los juegos de rol. Para ello, se examinó la progresión de estos elementos (juegos, publicaciones y editoriales) a lo largo del tiempo, junto a sus proporciones en cuanto a orígenes, géneros u otros atributos, y diferenciando entre aquellos elementos autóctonos (españoles) y no autóctonos, o entre distintas etapas de publicación.Como conclusiones finales, se han sugerido una serie de predicciones acerca del posible futuro de la publicación de juegos de rol en España.

Muddled, massaging, manœuvring or manipulated?

PurposeThis conceptual paper seeks to consider the impact of performance measurement and reporting based around performance indicators and targets within the public sector and to identify that the response to indicators and targets is often gaming which happens at organisational level. It then goes on to present a definition and typology of organisational gaming.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws from a range of documents both government and academic to identify both the process of, and the types of, organisational gaming.FindingsThe paper finds that organisational gaming occurs at both different levels (low and high) and extent (internal and external). It builds on this by presenting a framework (2 × 2 matrix) which presents types of organisational gaming which range in their degree of impact and consequence.Research limitations/implicationsThe concepts within this paper focus around public services on which the framework is built. This may – but it is doubtful – have limitations when considering the ideas within private sector organisations. Another limitation could be levelled at the 2 × 2 typology in that it may be difficult to place a gaming phenomenon into one “box” alone.Originality/valueThe value in the paper and the framework is that a distinction between measurement and reporting is drawn together with identification of a different gaming phenomenon. This, the paper argues, is important to understand, if organisations are to avoid some of the more “dangerous” or high impact consequences of gaming.

Sports Viewing: A Theoretical Approach

The article presents a theoretical discussion of the entertainment value inherent to viewing televised sports. By combining different theories that consider sports events and television as essentially presentational symbolic forms, sports as a game phenomenon, and sports events as rituals, one obtains a more elaborate understanding of the potential attractions related to watching sports. The author argues that because of the very nature of sports, it becomes crucial to give prominence to a conception of the audience as active and meaning producing. In order to understand and acquire knowledge about both these meaning-producing processes, and the more general significance of televised sports, a comprehensive, rather than a purely individual, approach is required. Knowledge sharing and discussion of the implications of the acts on the field are, among various social groups, as important as the viewing experience itself.