visually emulates current commercial games. Our research explores the player’s perceptions of their own capabilities, their capacity to deal with a high influx of information, and their preferences regarding body-controlled video games. Our results indicate that the game-inspired interface elements alone

Lane, and unfailingly end up in the Mill pub by the river Cam. The known attraction inducing the pleasant anticipation is a pint of Hobgoblin. Hobgoblin's provocative ad reads something like "What's the matter Lager boy, afraid you might taste something?" and refers to a full-bodied

Game balancing can help players with different skill levels play multiplayer games together; however, little is known about how the balancing approach affects performance, experience, and self-esteem–especially when differences in player strength result from given abilities, rather than learned

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, and replying, sometimes on the same day, but it was rather like what had formerly been a jig, danced together, turned instead into a sarabande, danced in lugubrious alternation --or, to pick a more cognitive example, a long-distance chess game in which the players make only one or two moves a day, and spend

these findings to music performance. Similarly, this specificity is useful to analysts interested in further explorations of the gestures themselves. Finally, these results neatly complete the previously described series of experiments aimed at deconstructing the complex motions used by one expert performer

Cover 68 (Re)Cognising the Body: Performativity, Embodiment and Abject Selves in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a text open to an array of active readings, from liberalfeminist readings which praise the surface-level presence of a female super-hero, to those which suggest

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model in a certain limit and thus allows for the study of quantum magnetism, can be im-plemented by using bosons with two different internal states that couple differently to an optical lattice potential. In this thesis, I present our first experiments with two-component hyperfine-state mixtures