Transfer of Skill from a Computer Game Trainer to Flight

Gopher, Daniel; Weil, Maya; Bareket, Tal

doi:10.4324/9781315243092-7

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“…For example, the phenomenon of cultural omnivores (Warde, Wright, and Gayo-Cal 2007) may be explained as individuals having high levels of skill at amassing field-specific capital, which allows them to operate credibly and comfortably in a wide variety of consumption fields. The ability to decontextualize and recontextualize field-specific capital may also explain the apparent transferability of consumption competencies such as video gaming to occupational contexts of military (Gopher, Well, and Bareket 1994) or surgical practice (Rosser et al 2007).…”

Section: A New Way Of Consuming Capital?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Resolving identity ambiguity through transcending fandom

Seregina

Schouten

2016

Consumption Markets & Culture

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Identity construction involves accumulating cultural, social, and symbolic capital, with initial endowments being accrued through socialization into one's habitus. This research explores the experiences of individuals that feel a lack of capital, which leads to ambiguity regarding their identities and places in the world. Through in-depth interviews, this interpretive research shows that such individuals may turn to fandom for gaining status and belonging. Fandoms are consumption fields with clear, limited forms of cultural capital. Through serial fandom and engagement with fandom in different ways, individuals were able to learn the skill of identifying and accruing relevant cultural capital. The skill became decontextualized and recontextualized, allowing individuals to transcend fandom and accrue general forms of cultural capital. Learning the skill aids individuals in dealing with the simultaneously debilitating and empowering freedom of contemporary consumer culture. Moreover, gaining cultural capital could be altogether developing into the form of the process we describe.

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Section: A New Way Of Consuming Capital?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Resolving identity ambiguity through transcending fandom

Seregina

Schouten

2016

Consumption Markets & Culture

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“…Space Fortress is a game created by experimental psychologists (Donchin, 1989, 1995) to be used as a common task in which diverse researchers can apply diverse “learning strategies” and compare their effectiveness in mastering “a rather complex task” (Donchin, 1989, p. 1). Most modern studies of Space Fortress (Donchin, 1995) have used the version crafted by Gopher, Weil, and Bareket (1994). This version includes the original measure (Points), three measures (Speed, Control [CNTRL], and Velocity) designed by Frederiksen and White (1989) as a means of focusing attention on different task components during training, and Total, which combines parts of the other four.…”

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Plateaus and Asymptotes

Gray

2017

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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One hundred twenty years ago, the emergent field of experimental psychology debated whether plateaus of performance during training were real or not. Sixty years ago, the battle was over whether learning asymptoted or not. Thirty years ago, the research community was seized with concerns over stable plateaus at suboptimal performance levels among experts. Applied researchers viewed this as a systems problem and referred to it as the paradox of the active user. Basic researchers diagnosed this as a training problem and embraced deliberate practice. The concepts of plateaus and asymptotes and the distinction between the two are important as the questions asked and the means of overcoming one or the other differ. These questions have meaning as we inquire about the nature of performance limits in skilled behavior and the distinction between brain capacity and brain efficiency. This article brings phenomena that are hiding in the open to the attention of the research community in the hope that delineating the distinction between plateaus and asymptotes will help clarify the distinction between real versus “spurious limits” and advance theoretical debates regarding learning and performance.

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“…The accumulated evidence has revealed the benefits of adopting digital-game based learning in various settings, such as in air force and navy technical training [ 9 , 10 ] and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education [ 11 – 14 ]. Compared with the amount of research on digital-game based learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education, research on digital-game based learning in language education and learning is comparatively less [ 15 , 16 ].…”

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Developing English language learners’ oral production with a digital game-based mobile application

Wang

Han

2021

PLoS ONE

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This study examined the effect of using a digital game-based language learning mobile application “Liulishuo” (speaking English fluently) to develop complexity, accuracy, and fluency of English monologic oral production among 30 English language learners in China. Monologic oral production was measured using the same narrative picture description task in pre- and post-tests. The learners followed the “Imitation of English Monologues” game 30 minutes each time, twice a week, for 20 weeks. The oral production was measured using six indices: the mean words per T-unit and lexical density (i.e., complexity), the mean repairs and errors per 100 words (i.e., accuracy), speech rate and the mean length of pauses (i.e., fluency). The paired sample t-tests showed that the participants produced more complex monologic speech, had significantly fewer errors, and increased speech rate, but the mean repairs and mean length of pauses remained unchanged. The unchanged repairs and pauses could be possibly due to the non-proceduralized linguistic knowledge in oral production, which may require a more extended period of treatment. Our study showed positive effects of using a digital game-based language learning mobile application on the improvement of complexity, accuracy, and fluency of English language learners in China’ monologic oral production with varying effects.

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Transfer of Skill from a Computer Game Trainer to Flight

Cited by 9 publications

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Resolving identity ambiguity through transcending fandom

Resolving identity ambiguity through transcending fandom

Plateaus and Asymptotes

Developing English language learners’ oral production with a digital game-based mobile application

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