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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,743 Views
17 Pages

Leisure time activities in childhood may have a crucial role in the development of subjective well-being. Nevertheless, more research is needed with cross-national samples concerning the differential effects of lifestyles on life satisfaction. The ai...

(This article belongs to the Collection Variables Related to Well-Being in Adolescence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
679 Views
24 Pages

28 April 2026

Power electronic systems are often engineered through a sequential–iterative workflow in which hardware parameters are initially sized from steady-state, ripple, thermal, and electromagnetic-compatibility constraints, and controllers are subseq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Power Electronics for Renewable Integration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,475 Views
14 Pages

10 October 2024

Objective: The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between parents’ phubbing behavior and children’s online gaming time. More importantly, we investigated the mediating role of electronic health literacy in this associati...

(This article belongs to the Section Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,077 Views
22 Pages

9 February 2023

The expansion of the use of electronic games has led to a surge in the rates of gaming addiction among adolescents. Electronic games addiction (EGA) presents, of course, psychological, hygienic, social, educational, and moral dangers. Therefore, it i...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,999 Views
20 Pages

Blockchain-Based Incentive Mechanism for Electronic Medical Record Sharing Platform: An Evolutionary Game Approach

  • Dexin Zhu,
  • Yuanbo Li,
  • Zhiqiang Zhou,
  • Zilong Zhao,
  • Lingze Kong,
  • Jianan Wu,
  • Jian Zhao and
  • Jun Zheng

19 March 2025

As the medical information systems continue to develop, the sharing of electronic medical records (EMRs) is becoming a vital tool for improving the quality and efficiency of medical services. However, during the process of sharing EMRs, establishing...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,924 Views
24 Pages

21 October 2016

Wearable electronic devices have experienced increasing development with the advances in the semiconductor industry and have received more attention during the last decades. This paper presents the development and implementation of a novel inertial s...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,575 Views
13 Pages

This study investigated the associations between two common recreational screen activities and the psychological wellbeing of adolescents, and whether this association was mediated by sleep duration or physical activity frequency. This study used nat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Screen-Time and Health in Children and Adolescents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,166 Views
26 Pages

Radar and Jammer Intelligent Game under Jamming Power Dynamic Allocation

  • Jie Geng,
  • Bo Jiu,
  • Kang Li,
  • Yu Zhao,
  • Hongwei Liu and
  • Hailin Li

18 January 2023

In modern electronic warfare, the intelligence of the jammer greatly worsens the anti-jamming performance of traditional passive suppression methods. How to actively design anti-jamming strategies to deal with intelligent jammers is crucial to the ra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Array Signal Processing for Target Imaging and Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
11,703 Views
12 Pages

Children are increasingly exposed to electronic media, which can potentially influence their sleep habits. However, few studies have investigated the effects of children’s life patterns on sleep habits and electronic media usage. This study inv...

(This article belongs to the Section Digital Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,939 Views
22 Pages

A Blockchain Prototype for Improving Electronic Seals on Container Shipping Operations

  • Wei Le,
  • Adriana Moros-Daza,
  • Maria Jubiz-Diaz and
  • Stefan Voß

21 July 2023

With the widespread use of electronic seals (e-seals), their traceability and security have attracted more and more attention. Moreover, the complexity of shipping operations and container handling justifies the use of technologies to ensure informat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain for Sustainable Supply Chains)
  • Article
  • Open Access
883 Views
20 Pages

1 July 2025

A rational exchange protocol is a type of e-commerce protocol that aims to maximize the participants’ own interests. The Buttyan model is commonly used to analyze the security of such protocols. However, this model has limitations in dealing wi...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
12,927 Views
13 Pages

The eSports Medicine: Pre-Participation Screening and Injuries Management—An Update

  • Agostino Rossoni,
  • Marco Vecchiato,
  • Erica Brugin,
  • Eliana Tranchita,
  • Paolo Emilio Adami,
  • Manuela Bartesaghi,
  • Elena Cavarretta and
  • Stefano Palermi

1 February 2023

Recently, electronic sports (eSports) became one of the growing forms of new media due to the wide diffusion of games and online technologies. Even if there is still a debate about the definition and characterization of eSports, eAthletes train heavi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Technologies: Applications, Window of Opportunity and Challenges in Exercise, Health and Sports)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,778 Views
28 Pages

14 October 2021

With the continuous development of e-commerce, it has become normal for the manufacturer to sell products and to collect used products through e-commerce platforms (platform for short). We consider an electronic closed-loop supply chain (E-CLSC) wher...

  • Review
  • Open Access
67 Citations
18,204 Views
20 Pages

A Literature Review and Gap Analysis of Emerging Technologies and New Trends in Gambling

  • Sharon Lawn,
  • Candice Oster,
  • Ben Riley,
  • David Smith,
  • Michael Baigent and
  • Mubarak Rahamathulla

There have been significant changes in the gambling landscape particularly relating to gambling in the digital age. As the gambling landscape changes, regulation of gambling also needs to change. In 2018, the Office of Responsible Gambling in New Sou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet-Related Addictions and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,930 Views
21 Pages

29 March 2024

Green design emphasizes the environmental attributes of the product life cycle, which can prevent environmental pollution at the source and reduce resource consumption. Based on the evolutionary game theory, this paper constructs a tripartite game mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,118 Views
19 Pages

12 July 2024

Recycling waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has garnered considerable societal attention. To incentivize WEEE recycling within a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC), a deposit-refund system (DRS) has been implemented. This study delves int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics in Supply Chain and Logistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,803 Views
33 Pages

Socio-Economic Decision Making and Emotion Elicitation with a Serious Game in the Wild

  • Fahad Ahmed,
  • Riccardo Berta,
  • Francesco Bellotti,
  • Luca Lazzaroni,
  • Federica Floris,
  • Giacinto Barresi and
  • Jesus Requena Carrion

24 May 2023

There is a growing body of research in the literature that investigates the relationship between emotions and decision-making in socio-economic contexts. Previous research has used Serious Games (SGs) based on game theory paradigms with socio-economi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges in Serious Game Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
16,613 Views
22 Pages

11 October 2023

The global proliferation of video games, particularly among children, has led to growing concerns about the potential impact on children’s social development. Executive function is a cognitive ability that plays a crucial role in children&rsquo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Developmental Trajectory of Children's Social Behaviors and Their Cognitive Neural Mechanisms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,861 Views
11 Pages

Spine Posture, Mobility, and Stability of Top Mobile Esports Athletes: A Case Series

  • Wing-Kai Lam,
  • Bob Chen,
  • Rui-Tan Liu,
  • James Chung-Wai Cheung and
  • Duo Wai-Chi Wong

11 May 2022

Professional esports athletes spend a long time in the same sitting posture during training and competition. Mobile esports may exacerbate potential postural problems because of the closer and unsupported arms and because athletes spend more time in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Response and Adaptation during Human Exercise: From Physiology, Metabolism and Musculoskeletal Modelling to Understand Functional Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,947 Views
34 Pages

Extending Digital Narrative with AI, Games, Chatbots, and XR: How Experimental Creative Practice Yields Research Insights

  • Lina Ruth Harder,
  • David Jhave Johnston,
  • Scott Rettberg,
  • Sérgio Galvão Roxo and
  • Haoyuan Tang

16 January 2026

The Extended Digital Narrative (XDN) research project explores how experimental creative practice with emerging technologies generates critical insights into algorithmic narrativity—the intersection of human narrative understanding and computat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electronic Literature and Game Narratives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,152 Views
11 Pages

Internal and External Loads in U16 Women’s Basketball Players Participating in U18 Training Sessions: A Case Study

  • Álvaro Bustamante-Sánchez,
  • Enrique Alonso-Perez-Chao,
  • Rubén Portes and
  • Nuno Leite

6 November 2025

Background: This study aimed to analyze and compare the internal and external training load responses in U16 female basketball players participating in a micro-cycle with the U18 team from the same club. Methods: Twelve U16 and six U18 female basketb...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,640 Views
14 Pages

6 March 2026

The goal of the article is to demonstrate the common threads and methods of studying digital storytelling as a unified, second-order aesthetic code. Just as the category of translation, when applied to digital literature, was expanded into a more com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electronic Literature and Game Narratives)
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,262 Views
13 Pages

During the last two decades, esports, a highly competitive sporting activity, has gained increasing popularity. Both performance and competition in esports require players to have fine motor skills and physical and cognitive abilities in controlling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,046 Views
10 Pages

This paper extends Alderete (2009) model of screening contracts to build electronic commerce between a large firm and a small and medium sized enterprise (SME) supplier. The large firm (principal) must choose among SME suppliers (agents) that differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
939 Views
19 Pages

Forming Buyer Coalition Scheme with Connection of a Coalition Leader

  • Laor Boongasame,
  • Punnarumol Temdee and
  • Farhad Daneshgar

Despite the variety of existing theoretical models for buyers’ coalition in the current e-commerce literature, no existing coalition scheme explicitly takes into consideration issues related to the leadership attributes of the coalition. By adopting...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,737 Views
16 Pages

Accuracy and Reliability of Local Positioning Systems for Measuring Sport Movement Patterns in Stadium-Scale: A Systematic Review

  • Markel Rico-González,
  • Asier Los Arcos,
  • Filipe M. Clemente,
  • Daniel Rojas-Valverde and
  • José Pino-Ortega

29 August 2020

The use of valid, accurate and reliable systems is decisive for ensuring the data collection and correct interpretation of the values. Several studies have reviewed these aspects on the measurement of movement patterns by high-definition cameras (VID...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue In-Silico Methods in Musculoskeletal Biomechanics and Biotribology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,643 Views
25 Pages

This paper considers the confrontation problem for two tank swarms of equal size and capability in a complex urban scenario. Based on the Unity platform (2022.3.20f1c1), the confrontation scenario is constructed featuring multiple crossing roads. Thr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Agents and Multi-Agent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,777 Views
33 Pages

Bulk logistics is an important part of the modern logistics system. The degree of digital transformation of bulk logistics has a significant gap compared with other logistics forms. Combined with the successful experience of digital transformation, v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
802 Views
15 Pages

22 December 2025

We can trace the convergence of electronic literature and narrative games through a focus on critical methods and experiential frameworks rather than relying on typologies or ontologies. This article offers examples of digital literary works that we...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electronic Literature and Game Narratives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,567 Views
19 Pages

17 February 2012

The mobile internet expands the immersive potential of storytelling by introducing electronic games powered by portable, location-aware interfaces. Mobile gaming has become the latest iteration in a decades-long evolution of electronic games that see...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Transformations from the Mobile Internet)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,735 Views
18 Pages

Reducing Q-Value Estimation Bias via Mutual Estimation and Softmax Operation in MADRL

  • Zheng Li,
  • Xinkai Chen,
  • Jiaqing Fu,
  • Ning Xie and
  • Tingting Zhao

16 January 2024

With the development of electronic game technology, the content of electronic games presents a larger number of units, richer unit attributes, more complex game mechanisms, and more diverse team strategies. Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning shi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Games AI)
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
53,790 Views
10 Pages

30 May 2022

Benefits of video games on cognitive function have been proved by increasing evidence. However, reasons for game-induced changes in cognitive function are still elusive. Therefore, this study conducted a systematic review of brain function activation...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,183 Views
9 Pages

Influence of an Esports Program on Problematic Gaming in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study

  • Kentaro Kawabe,
  • Fumie Horiuchi,
  • Rie Hosokawa,
  • Kiwamu Nakachi,
  • Junya Soga and
  • Shu-ichi Ueno

31 May 2022

Esports (electronic sports) programs are a variant of competitive gaming and have expanded worldwide in recent years. The prevalence of problematic gaming and gaming disorders (GD) is predicted to increase in adolescents. Children with autism spectru...

(This article belongs to the Section Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
88 Citations
40,524 Views
20 Pages

Does Video Gaming Have Impacts on the Brain: Evidence from a Systematic Review

  • Denilson Brilliant T.,
  • Rui Nouchi and
  • Ryuta Kawashima

25 September 2019

Video gaming, the experience of playing electronic games, has shown several benefits for human health. Recently, numerous video gaming studies showed beneficial effects on cognition and the brain. A systematic review of video gaming has been publishe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Collection on Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,576 Views
23 Pages

Fall Detection in Q-eBall: Enhancing Gameplay Through Sensor-Based Solutions

  • Zeyad T. Aklah,
  • Hussein T. Hassan,
  • Amean Al-Safi and
  • Khalid Aljabery

The field of physically interactive electronic games is rapidly evolving, driven by the fact that it combines the benefits of physical activities and the attractiveness of electronic games, as well as advancements in sensor technologies. In this pape...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,582 Views
17 Pages

The Influence of Serious Games in the Promotion of Healthy Diet and Physical Activity Health: A Systematic Review

  • Susana Lamas,
  • Sofia Rebelo,
  • Sofia da Costa,
  • Helena Sousa,
  • Nelson Zagalo and
  • Elisabete Pinto

14 March 2023

(1) Background: serious games seem to show promising strategies to promote treatment compliance and motivate behavior changes, and some studies have proven to contribute to the literature on serious games. (2) Methods: this systematic review aimed to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Articles on Obesity and Weight Loss Treatments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,861 Views
9 Pages

The Gamification of XFEL Education Using XFEL Crystal Blaster

  • Fiacre Kabayiza,
  • Sarah B. Woodruff and
  • William J. Bauer

6 May 2022

Novel groundbreaking techniques, such as serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX), which utilizes X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), have led to impressive advances in the field of structural biology. However, educating the next generation of scient...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Macromolecular Serial Crystallography (Volume II))
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,755 Views
13 Pages

A heightened interest in online gaming has emerged during COVID-19, and people have become increasingly vulnerable to internet gaming disorder (IGD). However, playing video games can also have a positive effect; gaming has been recognized as an effic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theoretical and Empirical Advances in Internet-Related Addictions: Psychosocial Antecedents and Outcomes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,138 Views
18 Pages

Development and Validation of a System for Game Control Based on a Force Plate

  • Zoran Vrhovski,
  • Goran Benkek,
  • Krunoslav Husak and
  • Ivan Sekovanić

27 October 2023

A force plate is a device that measures the ground reaction force caused by a shift in the human body’s center of mass (CoM). Using a controlled change in the human body’s CoM, the human body’s center of pressure (CoP) is shifted in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Automation: System Design, Analysis and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,284 Views
11 Pages

16 January 2023

With the popularization of technological products, people’s everyday lives are now full of 3C (computer, communication, and consumer electronics) products. Children have gradually become acquainted with these new technological products. In rece...

(This article belongs to the Topic Electronic Communications, IOT and Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,716 Views
25 Pages

Preschoolers’ STEM Learning on a Haptic Enabled Tablet

  • Sarah Pila,
  • Anne Marie Piper,
  • Alexis Lauricella and
  • Ellen Wartella

The research on children’s learning of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics from electronic applications (apps) is limited, though it appears that children can reasonably transfer learning from tablet games to particular tas...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,088 Views
6 Pages

Using Machine Learning of Artificial Intelligence to Analyze Business Opportunities and Applications of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game Case in Metaverse

  • Kuo-Hsien Lee,
  • Wen-Hsien Tsai,
  • Cheng-Tsu Huang,
  • Jerry Tao,
  • Hank Lee,
  • Ching-Hui Chen,
  • Li-Yun Lee and
  • Hsiao-Ting Tseng

28 November 2023

By using the machine learning of artificial intelligence to explore the application business opportunities of the Metaverse in the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) interactive game market, we study the supply and demand laws of...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2023 IEEE 5th Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,100 Views
12 Pages

12 August 2015

Problematic or addictive digital gaming (including all types of electronic devices) can and has had extremely adverse impacts on the lives of many individuals across the world. The understanding of this phenomenon, and the effectiveness of treatment...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Addictive Behaviors: Assessment and Treatment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,901 Views
12 Pages

Daytime Sleepiness from Preschool Children’s and Parents’ Perspectives: Is There a Difference?

  • Eugenija Marušić,
  • Linda Lušić Kalcina,
  • Ivana Pavlinac Dodig,
  • Zoran Đogaš,
  • Maja Valić and
  • Renata Pecotić

This cross-sectional study investigated the level of daytime sleepiness and sleep-related behaviors in preschool children and compared their self-evaluations with the evaluations of their parents. It was conducted in Split-Dalmatian County, Croatia,...

(This article belongs to the Section Pediatric Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,673 Views
22 Pages

Preschool Children’s Metaphoric Perceptions of Digital Games: A Comparison between Regions

  • Elçin Yazıcı Arıcı,
  • Michail Kalogiannakis and
  • Stamatios Papadakis

Preschoolers now play digital games on touch screens, e-toys and electronic learning systems. Although digital games have an important place in children’s lives, there needs to be more information about the meanings they attach to games. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Game-Based Learning, Gamification in Education and Serious Games 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
1,517 Views
16 Pages

Social network games (SNGs) are part of the highly evolving marketing and e-commerce channel of social network sites (SNSs). Marketers in SNGs offer economic incentives of game currency or virtual goods in exchange for consumer interactions with ads,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,953 Views
18 Pages

6 October 2022

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurobiological condition characterized by developmentally inadequate levels of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, and a neurobiological disruption in brain neurotransmitters and circuitr...

(This article belongs to the Section Pediatric Neurology & Neurodevelopmental Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,251 Views
19 Pages

Exploring the Relationship Between Game Performance and Physical Demands in Youth Male Basketball Players

  • Javier Espasa-Labrador,
  • Carlos Martínez-Rubio,
  • Franc García,
  • Azahara Fort-Vanmeergaehe,
  • Jordi Guarch and
  • Julio Calleja-González

Background: Understanding the relationship between physical demands and game performance is essential to optimize player development and management in basketball. This study aimed to examine the association between game performance and physical deman...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Perspectives on Kinesiology and Functional Morphology in Team Sports)

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