To browse Academia. The other authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Computer games are currently a focal topic in different research areas. One of the emerging contexts for their use is represented by healthcare. Thanks to their potentialities, they have been successfully exploited in this domain to foster motivation and to enhance cognitive processes.
This paper proposes a review of existing research on computer games, exploited for prevention, support, training, rehabilitation, and particularly stressing the relationship between cognitive processes and gaming.
As technology continues to be a part of our life, online gaming has claimed the hearts of millions of people as a favourite leisure activity. Among them online role-playing game provides people the opportunity to play a desired role, be it a king, princess or warrior. This article aimed to provide an insight into what role-playing game is, and why it has become so popular in recent years, with the help of existing literature.
This article also attempted to point out the need to research more in the field of gaming as the existing literature is not sufficient to cover the vastness of the topic. The digitalization of games from physical form to online form has changed the way games has been viewed, played, and understood. Due to the popularity of online games, there is a significant change in the research around online games, especially role-playing games.
There is still more research needed in Indian context about online games as it has become a popular source of entertainment throug The Young and Well CRC is an Australia-based, international research centre that unites young people with researchers, practitioners, innovators and policy-makers from 75 partner organisations across the not-for-profit, academic, government and corporate sectors. Together we explore the role of technology in young people's lives, and how it can be used to improve the mental health and wellbeing of those aged Background: There has been research on the use of offl ine video games for therapeutic purposes but online video game therapy is still fairly under-researched.
