Eliane Alhadeff

Richard Carey reports on his latest post the study conducted by Dr. Silvia Bunge, a neuroscientist at UC Berkley, concluding that some video games help enhance kids' reasoning and processing skills. Findings even yielded that some games helped in raising kids' IQ points.

Students at Notre Dame High School in Sheffield will soon be enabled to use their personal mobile devices - including mobile phones - in the classroom and around the school. This radical move is the result of recognising that mobile devices have a role to play in the modern curriculum, says Paul Haigh, Notre Dame’s assistant head teacher, with a responsibility for specialisms and innovation.

Flyar is a free Twitter Visualization application, which lets people interact with tweets in a physical environment. You can set it as your screensaver or just play around with it.

It uses your webcam to create an augmented video image, enabling you to visualize incoming tweets (from your account or a general feed) in a twitteresque setting that you can interact with.

Serious Gaming with your tweets

According to Ross Smith, Director of Test, Windows Security, at Microsoft, Productivity Games are a sub-category of Serious Games designed to improve the productivity and morale of people doing "regular work”, or in other words:

Amri Yusoff, Richard Crowder, Lester Gilbert, and Gary Wills from the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Research Group, School of Electronics and Computer Sciences, University of Southampton, UK, have recently presented their Conceptual Framework for Serious Games at the 2009 Ninth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, held on 15 - 17 July 2009, in Riga, Latvia.

by: Eliane Alhadeff

The response to current market challenges reported by several presenters at the GDC’s Serious Games Summit, due to its high degree of commonality, could eventually configure emerging trends for the segment.

by: Eliane Alhadeff

by: Eliane Alhadeff

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