The Acagamic

Solving arith­metic chal­lenges is more effi­cient and effec­tive with pen and paper, but brain train­ing with video games is more excit­ing and may be con­nected to pos­i­tive feel­ings for elderly gamers, accord­ing to a study to be pub­lished in the forth­com­ing issue of the jour­nal CyberPsychology & Behavior.

Our paper “Sound and Immersion in the First-Person Shooter: Objectively Measuring the Player’s Sonic Experience” got accepted at the Audio Mostly 2008 con­fer­ence a while ago and thanks to Inger’s blog I dis­cov­ered that their con­fer­ence pro­gram is now online as well. It is the first paper in the first ses­sion! That really is kind of cool! [...]