scholarly journals The Value of Children's Voices for a Video Game Development in the Context of Type 1 Diabetes: Focus Group Study

JMIR Diabetes ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. e17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valéria de Cássia Sparapani ◽  
Sidney Fels ◽  
Lucila Castanheira Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Children’S Voices

scholarly journals Adolescent Perspectives on the Use of Social Media to Support Type 1 Diabetes Management: Focus Group Study

10.2196/12149 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. e12149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal S Malik ◽  
Neil Panlasigui ◽  
Jesse Gritton ◽  
Harsimrat Gill ◽  
Joyce P Yi-Frazier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Diabetes Management ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Why Do Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes and Their Parents Participate in Focus Groups?

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron E. Carroll ◽  
David G. Marrero ◽  
Melinda M. Swenson
Keyword(s):  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Peer Socialization ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
Almost All

Almost all patient-centered research is dependent on voluntary participation by participants. Many forces, however, act to either encourage or inhibit people from deciding to participate. This study explored adolescents’ with Type 1 diabetes and their parents’ reasons for participating in a research study. We recruited adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus and their parents to participate in a focus group study. Qualitative analysis of the focus group data followed a set procedure: (a) audio review, (b) reading through transcriptions, (c) discussions among investigators regarding key elements of participants’ perceptions, (d) determination of conceptual themes, and (e) assignment of relevant responses to appropriate thematic constructs. The 10 focus groups involved 59 participants. The three major themes that developed were giving and receiving, desire for peer socialization, and need for validation. Themes captured the reasons adolescents with type 1 diabetes and their parents decided to participate in this research. A better understanding of why people participate in research may help us to meet their needs and desires more completely. Designing research to meet these reasons will have the dual affect of increasing participation while also better serving those who choose to be studied.

scholarly journals The perils of project-based work: Attempting resistance to extreme work practices in video game development

Organization ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Peticca-Harris ◽  
Johanna Weststar ◽  
Steve McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Reader Comments ◽  
Game Developers

This article examines two blogs written by the spouses of game developers about extreme and exploitative working conditions in the video game industry and the associated reader comments. The wives of these video game developers and members of the game community decry these working conditions and challenge dominant ideologies about making games. This article contributes to the work intensification literature by challenging the belief that long hours are necessary and inevitable to make successful games, discussing the negative toll of extreme work on workers and their families, and by highlighting that the project-based structure of game development both creates extreme work conditions and inhibits resistance. It considers how extreme work practices are legitimized through neo-normative control mechanisms made possible through project-based work structures and the perceived imperative of a race or ‘crunch’ to meet project deadlines. The findings show that neo-normative control mechanisms create an insularity within project teams and can make it difficult for workers to resist their own extreme working conditions, and at times to even understand them as extreme.

“All bets are off”: Flexible engagement with music-listening technologies by autistic adults

2020 ◽  
pp. 030573562097103
Author(s):  
Michael Matsuno ◽  
Deon Auzenne ◽  
Leanne Chukoskie
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
New Music ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Personal Taste ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Autistic Adults

This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to explore daily experiences with music among a convenience sample of 12 autistic adults interning at a video game development lab. Our analysis indicates that music technologies enabled autistic individuals to explore new music and to engage reflexively with personal taste and self-curation. We also show that participants used music to accompany a range of cognitive and emotional tasks. These findings are consistent with broader sociological literature on music-listening habits of typically developing adults and indicate that autistic adults use music to meet their personal needs. Our cohort also described expressly creative and proactive engagement with music, suggesting that habits with music may differ among unique sub-populations of autistic individuals.

scholarly journals Video Game Development in a Rush: A Survey of the Global Game Jam Participants

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Borg ◽  
Vahid Garousi ◽  
Anas Mahmoud ◽  
Thomas Olsson ◽  
Oskar Stalberg
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Global Game ◽  
Video Game Development
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