title: Audio visual analysis of player experience: Feedback-based gameplay metrics

authors: Marczak, Raphaël

abstract: This chapter introduces readers to an innovative method designed specifically to meet game researchers’ need to be able to analyse and explore players’ experiences with any off-the-shelf PC game. We introduce how insights into players’ experiences are achieved from automatically processing significant elements of the audio-visual feedback (i.e., moving image and sound) produced by the game.

text: Audio visual analysis of player experience: Feedback-based gameplay metrics This chapter introduces readers to an innovative method designed specifically to meet game researchers’ need to be able to analyse and explore players’ experiences with any off-the-shelf PC game. We introduce how insights into players’ experiences are achieved from automatically processing significant elements of the audio-visual feedback (i.e., moving image and sound) produced by the game.

year: 2015

title: Teaching time telling and examining the relative effects of rate-building and rate-controlled practice on the retention and generalization of the time cues

authors: Mathews, Subin Tom

subjects: time telling

abstract: The present study aimed at replicating some of the procedures used in the existing empirical research on teaching time telling in a population which has not previously been used, i.e., adults with mild intellectual disabilities. The first part aimed to train three adults with mild intellectual disability and with minimal skills to tell the time to the nearest 5 min interval. The target skill was trained in 12 phases and each phase consisted of acquisition training, discrimination training and review training. A multiple-probe design was used over phases. The results showed that the procedures used in the training were effective in establishing time telling with these intellectually disabled adults. The training had brought about 55 to 67 percent improvements in the time telling skills of all three participants and the target behaviour was acquired by all the participants in 48 to 65 days, with at least 30 min of training each day. The common discrimination errors encountered, the general effectiveness of the training program, the application and the social relevance of the trained skill are discussed. The second part of this study aimed at comparing the relative effects of “fast practice”, “slow practice” and “no practice” on the retention and generalization of the time telling skills, when amount of practice and reinforcement was controlled across conditions. An Alternating Treatments, repeated measure, within-subjects design was used. The results indicated that, while periods without practicing led to the deterioration in the accuracy of skill, retention or generalization of the skill was not enhanced by rate-building to a fluency performance standard over the same amount of rate-controlled practice. Limitations of the study to provide firm conclusions are discussed.

text: Teaching time telling and examining the relative effects of rate-building and rate-controlled practice on the retention and generalization of the time cues The present study aimed at replicating some of the procedures used in the existing empirical research on teaching time telling in a population which has not previously been used, i.e., adults with mild intellectual disabilities. The first part aimed to train three adults with mild intellectual disability and with minimal skills to tell the time to the nearest 5 min interval. The target skill was trained in 12 phases and each phase consisted of acquisition training, discrimination training and review training. A multiple-probe design was used over phases. The results showed that the procedures used in the training were effective in establishing time telling with these intellectually disabled adults. The training had brought about 55 to 67 percent improvements in the time telling skills of all three participants and the target behaviour was acquired by all the participants in 48 to 65 days, with at least 30 min of training each day. The common discrimination errors encountered, the general effectiveness of the training program, the application and the social relevance of the trained skill are discussed. The second part of this study aimed at comparing the relative effects of “fast practice”, “slow practice” and “no practice” on the retention and generalization of the time telling skills, when amount of practice and reinforcement was controlled across conditions. An Alternating Treatments, repeated measure, within-subjects design was used. The results indicated that, while periods without practicing led to the deterioration in the accuracy of skill, retention or generalization of the skill was not enhanced by rate-building to a fluency performance standard over the same amount of rate-controlled practice. Limitations of the study to provide firm conclusions are discussed.

year: 2010

title: A Kaupapa Māori Intervention on Apology for LDS Church's Racism, Zombie Concepts, and Moving Forward

authors: Simon, Hemopereki

abstract: This intervention paper, based on the Kaupapa Māori writing inquiry, aims to offer an alternative path forward to the idea that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should apologise for its racism. It argues that an apology is redundant to the Indigenous World. The goal is for better Church-Indigenous relations in the face of racism rooted in The Book of Mormon, Church Policy, doctrine, teachings, and theology. The author develops a positionality and outlines mahi tuhituhi as a Kaupapa Māori (post) qualitative writing inquiry. The Author then moves to contextualise these issues by framing them with what sociologists describe as Zombie Concepts. A brief overview of the Book of Mormon and its significance in Mormonism is provided. Following that, an understanding of the connection between Aileen Moreton-Robinson's white possessive and Lamanitism is provided. Hagoth and his relationship with Tāngata Moana (Māori and Pacific Peoples) is then addressed. Recent remarks by Thomas Murphy to help readers understand the racism in the Book of Mormon. Other issues for Indigenous Peoples are highlighted, with an emphasis on anachronisms and the Book of Mormon's plagiarism. The investigation then shifts to provide Veracini's commentary on settling to build relationality is discussed from the viewpoint of Aotearoa New Zealand. A discussion of the issues is followed by an outline of the research's consequences, which include seven issues that need to be addressed as part of the relationality building in order to create a collaborative future values-based project to move Church-Indigenous relations forward in a positive way.

text: A Kaupapa Māori Intervention on Apology for LDS Church's Racism, Zombie Concepts, and Moving Forward This intervention paper, based on the Kaupapa Māori writing inquiry, aims to offer an alternative path forward to the idea that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should apologise for its racism. It argues that an apology is redundant to the Indigenous World. The goal is for better Church-Indigenous relations in the face of racism rooted in The Book of Mormon, Church Policy, doctrine, teachings, and theology. The author develops a positionality and outlines mahi tuhituhi as a Kaupapa Māori (post) qualitative writing inquiry. The Author then moves to contextualise these issues by framing them with what sociologists describe as Zombie Concepts. A brief overview of the Book of Mormon and its significance in Mormonism is provided. Following that, an understanding of the connection between Aileen Moreton-Robinson's white possessive and Lamanitism is provided. Hagoth and his relationship with Tāngata Moana (Māori and Pacific Peoples) is then addressed. Recent remarks by Thomas Murphy to help readers understand the racism in the Book of Mormon. Other issues for Indigenous Peoples are highlighted, with an emphasis on anachronisms and the Book of Mormon's plagiarism. The investigation then shifts to provide Veracini's commentary on settling to build relationality is discussed from the viewpoint of Aotearoa New Zealand. A discussion of the issues is followed by an outline of the research's consequences, which include seven issues that need to be addressed as part of the relationality building in order to create a collaborative future values-based project to move Church-Indigenous relations forward in a positive way.

year: 2023