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Kath Straub, Ph.D., CUA, Chief Scientist of HFI, looks at how to select the best menu presentation style for a given application.

We take a look at the evolution of controllers from the days of Atari to Revolution.

Known as "anti-advergames," the new titles satirize big companies and question corporate polices ranging from how cattle are raised to low pay for workers.

Though rhythm games arguably had their heyday 5 to 10 years ago, recent releases have shown us that the genre has still got it, and it continues to improve every step of the way. We now take a look back at the top 10 rhythm games of all time, leaving no platform unturned and letting no region-encoding stand in our way. As with every TenSpot, the games listed aren't in any particular order, so don't go reading between the lines, thinking we've ranked them. All of these games stand as equals in their collective greatness.

A televisão está prestes a passar por uma grande transformação: trocar o padrão analógico pelo digital. Para refletir sobre a TV digital e o futuro da difusão maciça de imagens, Trópico realizou, em parceria com a Pinacoteca do Estado, um debate com Roberto Moreira, diretor do longa-metragem “Contra todos” (2004) e professor do departamento de cinema, rádio e televisão da ECA- USP, e Mara Gama, jornalista, gerente geral de entretenimento do UOL.

After I created a demo video as a proof-of-concept (which consisted of me playing a short section of the game several times) I invited people to send me gameplay recordings. I ended up with 15 different submissions, including my own.

Mobile gaming is changing from its early days of rip-offs of classic, low-tech 2D games and ugly 3D games that are too ambitious for the platform. As a gaming platform it's gaining momentum in a big way.

Graphics and images have been an integral part of every game ever made -- it's a visual medium, after all. What you see is what you get. Even the most primitive games that couldn't draw proper images onscreen at least gave you ASCII art or text. And so it went, throughout gaming history, until Parappa the Rapper finally brought a new sense into play: in NanaOn-Sha's PSone masterpiece, you had to rely on your ears as much as your eyes.

Genius foi a reprodução eletrônica da brincadeira "Simon Says" ("Siga o mestre..." no Brasil), virou um "must have" nos 80 por aqui. A Disco e suas fortes luzes da pista de dança estavam em alta nos EUA, exatamente por isso, o SIMON ("Simon Says...") foi lançado no natal de 78, em uma casa noturna de Nova Iorque, a inesquecível Studio 54, point Disco da cidade. Vários artistas da Disco apareciam na propaganda original, sempre dentro de uma casa noturna, jogando o Genius (na verdade, o Simon) e dançando Disco, e as luzes no ritmo da música... isso conquistou o público na época.

Atari's token entry into the handheld market during the classic era was actually a portable version of its unsuccessful coin-op game. Touch Me was a simple yet addictive game but never caught on, but its fun factor was confirmed by the popularity of Milton Bradley's Simon (an imitation of Touch Me by Ralph Baer), which proved to be a runaway best seller for the toy giant.

A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, rhythm action game, or rhythm game, is a type of video game where the gameplay is oriented almost entirely around the player's ability to follow a musical beat and stay with the rhythm of the game's soundtrack. Since the game play for this type of game is largely aural rather than visual, this type of game is similar to audio games. However, music games generally require a visual component as well.

Vib-Ribbon is a rhythm video game in the style of PaRappa the Rapper and more recently Amplitude. The game was unique in its execution, the software loaded into RAM enabling the user to remove the game-disc and insert a music CD.

Vast deposits of personal information sit in databases across the internet. Terms used in phone conversations have become the grounds for federal investigation. Reputable organizations like the Catholic Worker, Greenpeace, and the Vegan Community Project, have come under scrutiny by FBI "counterterrorism" agents.

Back in the days of classic ASP, if you were building a database-driven web site, your choice was either to invest a lot of money to get a copy of Microsoft SQL Server (or some other enterprise-ready database) or invest a lot of time finding a way to deal with the performance and scalability limitations of Microsoft Access. Luckily these days there's another viable alternative: MySQL.

The sequence diagram below details the participants on both the client and server needed to provide an AJAX progress bar. The details are explained in further detail in the remainder of this document.

If you've been to a technology event recently, especially one with a high concentration of digerati, you may have seen someone stand up and tell everyone what the event's Flickr tag is.

The industry has spent a lot of time defining Web 2.0 and mapping its DNA. But as we attempt to emulate the fast-growth success of the Web 2.0 darlings, we need to zero in on the parts of the DNA that actually create this noteworthy new value.

O ADN da Web 2.0 A NÃO perder este artigo de Brandon Schauer - Crucial DNA of Web 2.0 - e o .pdf que o acompanha - What put the 2 in Web 2.0? Deixe seu Comentário

This article introduces hidden Markov models, an inexpensive and intuitive method for modeling stochastic processes.

"A Ergonomia, no sistema homem-máquina de computadores, ocorre quando a interface gráfica é apresentada ao seu usuário em uma linguagem que este já esteja adaptado. Com os Advergames o processo é semelhante, antigos comandos de Arcade são utilizados em novos games, mantendo em seu processo de interação a simplicidade que sempre garantiu a usabilidade."

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