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Weight Watchers, the Video Game
Here’s an interesting article from Clive Thompson over at Wired comparing Weight Watchers Online to MMORPGs like World of Warcraft. There are many similarities, Thompson notes, including leveling an… more →
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Weight Watchers, the Video Game
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John Rice wrote 1 week ago: Here’s an interesting article from Clive Thompson over at Wired comparing Weight Watchers Online t … more →
Study: HopeLab’s Re-Mission Game Is Effective
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John Rice wrote 2 weeks ago: The serious gaming community was buzzing today about the publication of results from a major study i … more →
Study: Active Videogames Make Kids Break a Sweat
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John Rice wrote 2 weeks ago: The Wii makes things easy to measure for researchers, as noted here many moons ago. The Wii Fit has … more →
Guitar Hero Helps Burn Victims
John Rice wrote 1 month ago: Here’s another Wii-hab story, this one out of William Randolph Hearst Burn Center at New York-P … more →
Industry Research: Casual Games Benefit Children with ADHD
John Rice wrote 1 month ago: Last time we looked at corporate research sponsored by PopCap Games, they were examining family habi … more →
Wii-hab Rising: NIH Joins Research Push
John Rice wrote 1 month ago: David Twitty of the Associated Press writes of an increase in interest and research surrounding the … more →
Virtual Telekinesis: Mind Control in Time for Christmas?
John Rice wrote 1 month ago: Here’s a story from AFP about Emotiv and their neural interface helmet which will allow gamers to … more →
Lab Research: Drexel Students Create Neural Interface
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John Rice wrote 1 month ago: There’s been a heavy spate of interest at the university level lately to create modified interface … more →
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Funds Wii-hab Research
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John Rice wrote 1 month ago: Susan Jenks at Florida Today reports the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded $2 million in re … more →
Blind Hero: UNev Reno Team Modifies Game Interfaces for the Disabled
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John Rice wrote 1 month ago: Chris Kohler at Wired’s Game|Life Blog writes about Dr. Eelke Folmer’s work over at Univ … more →
Fighting Cystic Fibrosis: Foundation Grants Fund Games for Health
John Rice wrote 1 month ago: Michael Thompson over at Ars Technica reports on grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that … more →
McGill Lab Studies Wii Fit
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John Rice wrote 1 month ago: As expected, the Wii Fit has made quite a splash on North American shores, and now researchers are … more →
Mexican Restaurant Reviews
Shantell wrote 3 months ago: "Unable to get a good Mexican food anywhere in North Texas." So Averroes my good frie … more →
Ambient Offers Sub-vocal Chat Device
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John Rice wrote 5 months ago: In the popular Ender’s Game series of science fiction novels, the hero communicated with his compu … more →
Report: Brain Fitness Software Shows Strong Potential for Schools
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John Rice wrote 5 months ago: The folks over at SharpBrains have released a new report: The State of the Brain Fitness Market, 200 … more →
Study: Wiimote Good for Measuring Cognition
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John Rice wrote 5 months ago: The Wii, with its connection from real life physical actions to virtual world videogame actions, con … more →
Interesting Sessions at Games for Health, 2008
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John Rice wrote 5 months ago: Games for Health, 2008 will be held May 8-9 in Baltimore. Here are some of the sessions I found part … more →
Study: Electronic Controls for Screen Time Help Obese Kids Slim Down
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John Rice wrote 5 months ago: Another study in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine related to videogames has been pu … more →
Autism Study Examines Effects of Videogames
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John Rice wrote 5 months ago: Here’s a brief news bit from The Kaleidoscope (“UAB’s Student Newspaper - Since 1967”) about … more →
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