Dit artikel vergelijkt de typische spelmechanismen voor karakterontwikkeling in twee game genres: role‐playing games en action‐adventure games. Voor beide genres zijn avatars en hun ontwikkeling belangrijk. Maar, zoals zal blijken, gebruiken beide genres heel ander type spelregels en geven hierdoor een …

Mirror neurons in the cerebral cortex have been shown to fire not only during performance but also during visual and auditory observation of activity. This phenomenon is commonly called cerebral resonance behavior. This would mean that cortical motor regions would not only be activated while singing, …

Untrained listeners demonstrate implicit knowledge of syntactic patterns and principles. Untrained generative music ability, for example singing, humming, and whistling, is a largely unconscious or intuitive application of these patterns and principles. From the viewpoint of embodied cognition, listening …

In this literary research I asked myself the following question: Are the emotional experiences through playing video games of any benefit in art education? A question that immediately raises other questions: What kind of emotional experiences players get anyway? Why through video games, what is their …

Every year so many new games are coming out on the market, while free time becomes a scarcity. It is hard for game developers to make games that catch the eye and attract the attention of players. ArenaNet wants to know how to make their games stand out and motivate their players to keep playing them. …

The Dutch greenhouse horticulture industry is characterized by world leadership in high-tech innovation. The dynamics of this playing field are innovation in production systems and automation, reduction in energy consumption and sharing limited space. However, international competitive advantage of the …

The Dutch greenhouse horticultural industry is characterized by world leadership in high-tech innovation. The dynamics of this playing field are innovation in production systems and automation, reduction in energy consumption and sharing limited space. However, international competitive advantage of …

I've always wondered why the 'plain text' book has survived thus far and whether this will remain to be the case with the arrival of the new media. As a Cross Media Designer, it would have been a more logical step to make a media production. But I believe that reading has its own merits and rewards in …

But how (do you organize outdoor learning)? In the research project ‘The green teacher’: a project aimed to explore the benefits of greening a schoolyard on children’s wellbeing and functioning, and how teachers can be supported in realizing outdoor education, we asked 152 teachers in 13 primary schools …

Mirror neurons in the cerebral cortex have been shown to fire not only during performance but also during visual and auditory observation of activity. This phenomenon is commonly called cerebral resonance behavior. This would mean that cortical motor regions would not only be activated while singing, …