NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Aakriti Kumar; Aaron S. Benjamin; Andrew Heathcote; Mark Steyvers – npj Science of Learning, 2022
Practice in real-world settings exhibits many idiosyncrasies of scheduling and duration that can only be roughly approximated by laboratory research. Here we investigate 39,157 individuals' performance on two cognitive games on the Lumosity platform over a span of 5 years. The large-scale nature of the data allows us to observe highly varied…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Learning Processes, Computer Games
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dixon, Daniel H. – CALICO Journal, 2022
This study quantitatively measures the variation in language derived from a targeted set of digital game mechanics. Mechanics refer to the design elements of a game that make up the overall gameplay experience, determining player actions and the degree of language interaction. A corpus was compiled by extracting the language files from two popular…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Computer Games, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction