FIFA 18 players – how do they feel and what do they see? Eyetracking, GSR/EDA, ECG, and facetracking – research reconnaissance

Video games have become popular immersive entertainment and what is more it has also been a dynamically growing business sector, likewise e-sport. Testing players engagement in a game has become an important and interesting challenge for social sciences researchers. In our experiment, we checked the physiological reactions of FIFA players during a game, especially the key parts of it.

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We present the results of a survey on Polish-American relations conducted by the Laboratory of Media Studie UW.

In our study, 52 percent. Poles answered "no" and 19 percent. "Rather not" to the question "If it was possible, would you like Donald Trump to be the president of Poland?". However, 4 out of 10 respondents are of the opinion that the holiday visit of US President Donald Trump in Poland had a positive impact on Polish-American relations.

The full results of the survey and expert comments can be found in the accompanying communication.

Attachments:

Sondaz_stosunki_pol_amerykanskie_UW_12012018.pdf

Experience virtual reality, identify emotions, examine eye tracking  and brain wave activity - these are just some of the measurements that UW researchers will be able to perform with modern Media Analysis Center equipment. CAM is a research and development laboratory which will carry out advanced tests, not yet conducted in Central and Eastern Europe. CAM was founded at the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies of the University of Warsaw.

UW researchers want to see how we respond to the reception of a variety of media content - from text, graphics, photos, posters, spots to movie sequences, and finally, the experience of virtual and augmented reality. Available only to some of the world's top universities (Stanford University, Harvard University, MIT), iMotions is a system that monitors and analysis audiovisual media reports. This system allows for biometric measurements (physiological changes occurring in the study) and most importantly - integrating them on a single time axis in the same integrated development environment. Up to now, it has been possible to carry out some of these measurements, but not to point them directly in one perspective - with modern software, more accurate and reliable biometric and human behavioral studies can be obtained and integrated.

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Professor Wayne Wanta will be a guest at the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies at the University of Warsaw. October 17 at 12.00, in the Column Hall of the building at ul. Bednarska 2/4, the media researcher will give a lecture "Trump's Troublesome Twitter Tweets: Alternative Facts and Mass Comm Theory."

About the lecture

U.S. President Donald Trump has created several challenges for the news media. He avoids the news media by taking his messages directly to the public through his use of twitter. The media are further frustrated because the President is not available when his tweets are inaccurate. This new President-press relationship can be explained by several mass communication theories. The theories point to a possible option for the mass media to hold the president accountable for his statements.

Bio:

Wayne Wanta is a Research Foundation Professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of Florida. He is a past president of Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, and twice represented AEJMC as a delegate to the World Journalism Education Congress. He has lectured and presented papers in more than 40 different countries, including as a Fulbright Scholar in Iceland. He has written more than 180 research articles and papers, many in the area of political communication and media effects. He also has eight books. He is well known for his mentoring of students and faculty, having written papers and articles with 94 coauthors. He currently serves on the editorial boards of nine journals and previously served on the journalism education accrediting council.

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