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Here, Nitsche introduces five analytical layers - rule-based space, mediated space, fictional space, play space, and social space - and uses them in the analyses of games that range from early classics to recent titles.
Video games. --- Three-dimensional display systems. --- 3-D display systems --- 3D display systems --- Display systems, Three-dimensional --- Television games --- Videogames --- Information display systems --- Three-dimensional imaging --- Electronic games --- Jeux vidéo --- Jeux vidéo. --- GAME STUDIES/Game Art --- GAME STUDIES/General --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies --- Video games --- #SBIB:309H17 --- Computer- en videogames --- Computer games --- Internet games --- Games --- Jeux vidéo.
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"This book re-focuses media design for material as well as human needs. It provides examples, critical discussions, and defining criteria for media that do not serve humans alone anymore"--
Design --- Human factors. --- Human factors in design --- Human engineering --- Sustainable design. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies --- DESIGN / History & Criticism --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects --- Green design
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This is a critical overview of the emerging field of machinima the use of computer game engines to create movies.
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An exploration of how we see, use, and make sense of modern video game worlds. The move to 3D graphics represents a dramatic artistic and technical development in the history of video games that suggests an overall transformation of games as media. The experience of space has become a key element of how we understand games and how we play them. In Video Game Spaces, Michael Nitsche investigates what this shift means for video game design and analysis. Navigable 3D spaces allow us to crawl, jump, fly, or even teleport through fictional worlds that come to life in our imagination. We encounter these spaces through a combination of perception and interaction. Drawing on concepts from literary studies, architecture, and cinema, Nitsche argues that game spaces can evoke narratives because the player is interpreting them in order to engage with them. Consequently, Nitsche approaches game spaces not as pure visual spectacles but as meaningful virtual locations. His argument investigates what structures are at work in these locations, proceeds to an in-depth analysis of the audiovisual presentation of gameworlds, and ultimately explores how we use and comprehend their functionality. Nitsche introduces five analytical layers—rule-based space, mediated space, fictional space, play space, and social space—and uses them in the analyses of games that range from early classics to recent titles. He revisits current topics in game research, including narrative, rules, and play, from this new perspective. Video Game Spaces provides a range of necessary arguments and tools for media scholars, designers, and game researchers with an interest in 3D game worlds and the new challenges they pose.
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The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive review of the use of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in different psychiatric conditions. Here we review tDCS clinical studies employing different types of design (from single-session tDCS studies to randomized clinical trials) as well as studies evaluating the impact of tDCS in neurophysiological, behavioral and brain imaging outcomes. Although the understanding about physiological foundations and effectiveness of clinical therapies of psychiatric diseases has been considerably increased during the last decades, our knowledge is still limited, and consequently psychiatric diseases are still a major burden to the individual patient and society. Recently, interest in pathological alterations of neuroplasticity in psychiatric diseases as a critical condition for development, and amelioration of clinical symptoms increased, caused by the fact that new tools, such as functional imaging, and brain stimulation techniques do allow to monitor, and modulate these phenomena in humans. Especially non-invasive brain stimulation techniques evolved as an attractive potential new therapeutic tool. The interest in non-invasive brain stimulation has grown exponentially in the past 25 years, with the development of non-pharmacological, neuromodulatory techniques such as tDCS and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). TDCS, although even newer than rTMS, has attracted considerable attention in both basic and clinical research scenarios. In the context of clinical research, tDCS is being increasingly investigated as a novel treatment tool for several psychiatric disorders, such as major depression, schizophrenia and neurocognitive and substance abuse disorders. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Neuropsychiatric Disorders – Clinical Principles and Management intends to serve as a practical guide on the field, attracting the interest of psychiatrists, neurologists and neuroscientists with little or no experience with tDCS, as well as those with a background on tDCS who want to increase their knowledge in any particular psychiatric condition.
Medicine. --- Neurosciences. --- Neurology. --- Psychiatry. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Magnetic brain stimulation. --- Magnetic stimulation of the brain --- Transcranial magnetic stimulation --- Brain stimulation --- Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology) --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Medicine --- Neuropsychiatry --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Diseases --- Neurology .
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Mental illness --- Magnetic brain stimulation. --- Psychology, Pathological --- Treatment. --- Abnormal psychology --- Diseases, Mental --- Mental diseases --- Mental disorders --- Pathological psychology --- Psychology, Abnormal --- Psychopathology --- Neurology --- Brain --- Criminal psychology --- Mental health --- Psychiatry --- Psychoanalysis --- Magnetic stimulation of the brain --- Transcranial magnetic stimulation --- Brain stimulation --- Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology) --- Diseases --- Psicopatologia --- Estimulació del cervell
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The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive review of the use of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in different psychiatric conditions. Here we review tDCS clinical studies employing different types of design (from single-session tDCS studies to randomized clinical trials) as well as studies evaluating the impact of tDCS in neurophysiological, behavioral and brain imaging outcomes. Although the understanding about physiological foundations and effectiveness of clinical therapies of psychiatric diseases has been considerably increased during the last decades, our knowledge is still limited, and consequently psychiatric diseases are still a major burden to the individual patient and society. Recently, interest in pathological alterations of neuroplasticity in psychiatric diseases as a critical condition for development, and amelioration of clinical symptoms increased, caused by the fact that new tools, such as functional imaging, and brain stimulation techniques do allow to monitor, and modulate these phenomena in humans. Especially non-invasive brain stimulation techniques evolved as an attractive potential new therapeutic tool. The interest in non-invasive brain stimulation has grown exponentially in the past 25 years, with the development of non-pharmacological, neuromodulatory techniques such as tDCS and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). TDCS, although even newer than rTMS, has attracted considerable attention in both basic and clinical research scenarios. In the context of clinical research, tDCS is being increasingly investigated as a novel treatment tool for several psychiatric disorders, such as major depression, schizophrenia and neurocognitive and substance abuse disorders. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Neuropsychiatric Disorders – Clinical Principles and Management intends to serve as a practical guide on the field, attracting the interest of psychiatrists, neurologists and neuroscientists with little or no experience with tDCS, as well as those with a background on tDCS who want to increase their knowledge in any particular psychiatric condition.
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