622 search results for “video games” in the Public website
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Fostering Curiosity Through Video Games
This thesis manuscript explores the use of video games as tools for conceptual exploration and academic research.
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Do video games keep the brain young?
Can playing certain games decrease cognitive decline or even enhance cognitive performance in the aging population?
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Return to the Interactive Past. The Interplay of Video Games and Histories
A defining fixture of our contemporary world, video games offer a rich spectrum of engagements with the past.
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Computer program AlphaStar reaches professional level in video game StarCraft II
For the first time, a computer can compete with the very best human players in StarCraft II, a video game played by tens of thousands at a professional level and by millions just for fun. Mike Preuss, university lecturer at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) responds to the achievement…
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University game
Are you mad about board games? Then we’ve got good news for you: we’ve developed our very own University game, HORA EST! It’s a fun way to learn more about the University. Get your family and friends together for an evening of fun and games!
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Game Studies
How do games work? How do you make them? And how do games make us and our societies and cultures? The minor Game Studies will provide you with both the perspective and practice to give your own answers to these questions.
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Serious Games
The Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University in The Hague has developed two Serious Games, 'het Grote Migratiespel' and 'het Schipholspel' to introduce secondary school students to their study and research programmes.
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Game Research Lab (GRL)
The Game Research Lab (GRL) uses digital games as a medium for academic research, and consider ‘serious’ games and entertainment games equally valuable objects of study.
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Game Research Lab
The Game Research Lab uses digital games as a medium for academic research. It considers entertainment games and 'serious’ games as objects of study, develops novel approaches for creating, playing, and analysing games, and studies the interactions between games and AI.
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Diversity Card Game
Having open conversations about diversity and inclusion is an important first step towards change. Yet, such conversation can be emotional and vulnerable, and at times uncomfortable to initiate and sustain. The 'What’s Your Story?' Card Game aims to enable participants to exchange and respond to stories…
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Gaming at school
How well children learn depends to a large extent on good teachers and effective learning materials. Wilfried Admiraal investigates such issues as gaming as a modern learning tool. He concludes that this tool has little to offer less talented students.
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Resource allocation in networks via coalitional games
Promotor: F. Arbab, R. De Nicola, Co-Promotor: M. Tribastone
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The Game of Continuity
In what way can the qualities of an existing context be used as guiding and enriching principles rather than limiting factors in the process of spatial transformation?
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Fostering Curiosity Through Video Games
PhD defence
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Video
Watch our video about the activity programme titled Beyond Content: materiality of text and image and the in depth video's with our curators. (with subtitles in English)
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Hazel Doughty
Science
h.r.doughty@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Imperfect information variants of combinatorial games
Combinatorial games are games for two competing players, moving in a turn-by-turn fashion, in which there is no chance nor hidden information. Chess, checkers and the simpler tic tac toe are well-known examples of this class of games, as well as game of go.
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Video's
On this digital video wall, you can find the videos provided by several attendees of the XY workshop 2022.
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Cleared for take-off, Game-based learning to prepare airline pilots for critical situations
Over the last decades, aviation safety has improved strongly. As a downside, airline pilots do not have as many opportunities to develop through experience the competencies that they need in critical situations.
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Video's
View the aftermovies of the run here.
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Master Talks: Programme videos
Want to get to know the master's programmes of Leiden University? Watch the video's of the master's programmes at Leiden University.
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Film and Video Intermediality
The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images
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Master Talks: Programme Videos
Watch the introduction video's of the master's programmes at Leiden University. Every introduction video will provide you with the basic information of the master's programme, so after watching you are fully equipped to join the live in-depth presentations during the Master's Online Open Days.
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Videos and MOOCs
LUCIS produces various video series and MOOCs to showcase the variety of expertise available at Leiden University.
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Video clips Literature Review
The Academic Language Centre has developed 4 video clips on Literature Review. Watch them below for a good start to your studies!
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Video clips Academic Presenting
The Academic Language Centre has developed 10 video clips on Academic Presenting. Watch them below for a good start to your studies!
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The use of self- and peer assessment with video in courses on professional practice
How can video on professional practices in university courses be used in a valid and useful way for assessment and feedback?
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Video clips Academic Reading and Writing
The Academic Language Centre has developed 19 video clips on Academic Skills. The videos are divided into three categories. Watch them below for a good start to your studies!
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The holographic glass bead game: from superconductivity to time machines
Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen & Prof.dr. K.E. Schalm
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STORMING THE GAMERGATE
How can video games be used as feminist tactical media to expose the root of exclusions (based on sex, gender, class, race, ability, etc.) pervasive to gaming communities?
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Learning: Exploring Artificial General Intelligence on Small Board Games by Deep Reinforcement Learning
In deep reinforcement learning, searching and learning techniques are two important components. They can be used independently and in combination to deal with different problems in AI, and have achieved impressive results in game playing and robotics. These results have inspired research into artificial…
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About this minor
Everything you need to know about the minor Game Studies and Cultural Analysis.
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Leiden students give commentary on games live on Twitch
Three Leiden students will be sharing their knowledge of history while playing video games. The livestreams are part of the ‘Streaming the Past’ project and will be available on the popular streaming platform Twitch. The first livestream will be on Thursday 20 May.
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Film and Video Intermediality: The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images
In Film and Video Intermediality, Janna Houwen innovatively rewrites the concept of medium specificity in order to answer the questions “what is meant by video?” and “what is meant by film?”
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Artificial Intelligence and Society
The development of smart cars, video games that adapt to your gaming behavior, law enforcement assigning your neighborhood a risk score, insurance rates determined by your behavior, finding your perfect match via an app: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly and radically transforming our interactions…
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V-Cinema: Canons of Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video
Thomas Mes defended his thesis on 9 January 2018.
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Video: Leiden University awards Kiem grant to interdisciplinary initiatives
With a 'Kiem grant' of up to €10,000, Leiden University stimulates initiatives in research and education where diverse fields of study meet. This interdisciplinary approach helps solve complex issues.
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Fathers' sensitive parenting enhanced by prenatal video-feedback: a randomized controlled trial using ultrasound imaging
The transition period in which men become fathers might provide an important window of opportunity for parenting interventions that may produce long-term positive effects on paternal care and, consequently, child development. Existing prenatal programs traditionally focus on maternal and infant health…
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Tycho van Tartwijk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
t.van.tartwijk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Current PhD Research Projects
PhD Research Projects at LUCDH and Affiliated Faculties
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Opportunities with LUCDH or Partners
Check back regularly on this page for research opportunities of interest to Humanities staff and students employing digital tools and methodology.
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Design and evaluation of video portfolios: reliability, generalizability, and validity of an authentic performance assessment for teachers
The research study presented in this dissertation focuses on issues pertaining to the reliability, generalizability, and validity of authentic performance assessments of teachers.
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Play and Media
Play and Media is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.
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Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious: Volume 2, The Affective Hypothesis
Representations of violence have subliminal contagious effects, but what kind of unconscious captures this imperceptible affective dynamic in the digital age?
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How a game can show that working together is essential in the nitrogen crisis
The Netherlands is embroiled in a complex nitrogen crisis. Berent Baris wants to use his NitroGenius game to demonstrate the complexity of this crisis.
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FGGA introduces The Great Migration Game
On Thursday 18 December, 170 first-year pupils from Gymnasium Haganum visited Leiden University’s Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) in The Hague. The faculty has developed The Great Migration Game (Het grote Migratiespel) as a fun way to introduce pre-university pupils to its fields of…