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lego rollercoasters. and poetry. straight from the line's mouth. —— lion's. this weekend, at the vna museum reason “— this weekend, at the vna museum reason —— ms —— at the vna museum in london, a new exhibition opens celebrating video games. design play disrupt tries to unpack some of the issues behind some of the biggest game titles, such as nintendo's

splatoon, which has squids firing ink rather than bullets in their quest to paint the world with colour. the eu can see the various stages of the game design and was interesting is that you have your concept art and fashion design and set design, what came first was this early prototype which features none of that is simply designed whether to see if the gameplay would be fun. videogames are without doubt one of the most ubiquitous cultural and design forms about time, with an estimated 2.2 billion people in the world to play but —— videogames, a court of the world's population so it's important that there is cultural institutions and spaces of design embrace and explore and elevate this design medium. of courses video games have become enmeshed in culture, so their role in society and their potential to influence individuals has come under increasing scrutiny. and there have been few big concerns than those

surrounding gaming addiction. recently recognised by the world health organization as a condition, uk national health services it will set up its first treatment centre and at means the media, hello, has jumped on the issue. butjust how concerned should you be about gaming addiction? is it a growing concern ora addiction? is it a growing concern or a moral panic? archer slack has been investigating. in the last few months, advise about videogames have been dominating —— dominated about the stories about the effect of videogames on mental health. a hit with younger gamers and the most popular title in the world right now, fortnite has been a lightning rod for the stories in the press. this combined with a recent report by the world health organization in geneva which classifies gaming disorder is a mental health condition has created a perfect storm in terms of press outrage. but

how big a problem are we talking about? games industry trade bodies dispute the world health organization's bindings, suggesting more research is needed and the who has been premature in deciding videogames disorder is a mental health condition. we have documented evidence that the same problem and the same conditions are being observed in countries of africa, of yore, of the americas so it's really a global phenomenon. how is the world health organization defining videogames disorder? as far as specific definition, you need to have three essential features. one is that there is an impairment of control of gaming behaviour, that this behaviour takes precedence over all other activities, previous activities and others and thirdly, when this behaviour continues or at is even escalated in spite of the negative consequences for a person.

extremely important criteria is that this behaviour should be observed for 12 months and result in significant impairment of cognitive risks of a person. could some people worry that someone they know perhaps the child has videogames disorder when in fact they just play the child has videogames disorder when in fact theyjust play games for a very long time? first of all, we need to make it very clear that being videogames doesn't mean that all that this person, even if intense playing, intense gaming, as a gaming disorder. but according to available scientific evidence, we may think that the propulsion of people who actually develop the disorder may be even less than i%, ora disorder may be even less than i%, or a very few % of those who are engaged in video gaming. the talk that small number of gamers affected, what help is out there? ——

but that small number. in the uk, help videogames addiction is available and in extreme cases, treatment can be sought in private rehab like this one. situated in a quiet part of surrey, primrose lodge isa quiet part of surrey, primrose lodge is a residential rehab which treats people with drug, alcohol, gambling and videogames addiction. have you noticed an increase in the number of people that comfort treatment for a problem with videogames addiction? it's quite interesting because initially we saw people coming in with what an additional addiction, so with what an additional addiction, so substance and gaming, but over the last 18 months or so, we've seen an increase in pure gaming addiction. p2 in in his 40s. he was addiction. p2 in in his 40s. he was a lifelong gamer until his entire world fell apart as a result of his addiction to playing video games. —— peter. i liked games like shooting games, half life, counterstrike and tea m games, half life, counterstrike and

team fortress, team —based shooting. i come home and play pretty much all night and pretty much all weekend as well, and it started causing big problems at home with my family. i had two children at the time. what effect on the people around you? eventually duty the amount of time is spent on there, i did lose my job. i was so tired all the time, i got the sack from where i was working. i do feel a lot of shame around it. i hurt people very badly and at the intellect into treatment and at the intellect into treatment and recovery, ithought and at the intellect into treatment and recovery, i thought it was because i liked gaming. because it is on line gaming and i'm not sticking needles and myself like a heroin addict, i can kick it and it's no big deal. peter spent a month in rehab and has been in recovery for four years, and standing completely from play in games. so how do you treat people that have a videogames addiction? it's more closely aligned to gambling addiction. the treatment is very much the same. group therapy and one—to—one counselling sessions to strip away the addictive process and look to what is underneath and

driving that process. residential rehab treatment can cost thousands of pounds. in the uk, the national health service is taking videogames disorder seriously and is in the early stages of trialling its own treatment programme. but does the games industry itself have a role to play in the light of the world health organization's bindings? doctorjo twist ceo of the uk games industry body. but wholeheartedly disagrees with the world health organization, questioning the scientific evidence provided by the who. our view is and it's as -- as an industry body and in line with many academics from research, psychologists, social scientists, lots of academic practitioners and feel that there is no consensus around the evidence based upon which this is being drafted. we believe this is being drafted. we believe this is being drafted. we believe this is premature to include this as a gaming disorder at this stage. and we believe that the evidence is

confused and there just is no consensus at this time. one thing that i would put straightforward, i think what we can expect is that the gaming industry would recognise the arguments that public health professionals present on the existence of gaming disorder as a new, relatively new health condition. which becomes an issue for healthcare condition. which becomes an issue for healthca re systems condition. which becomes an issue for healthcare systems in many countries. and just acceptance of this fact. —— and just acceptance of this fact. —— and just acceptance of this fact. —— and just acceptance of this fact would be an important step in addressing the problem. the games industry takes its responsibility to its players very, very seriously indeed but it's a shared responsibility. you can't tell pa rents responsibility. you can't tell parents at apparent and we don't get to. we want to be able to support pa rents

to. we want to be able to support parents so that they understand how to protect their children, how they can use the parental controls, how they can set time limits, how they can talk to their children about what it is that they are doing and what it is that they are doing and what draws them to particular kinds of games and to actually play with them. the most of us who play games, them. the most of us who play games, the negative headlines in the post don't reflect our experience. puranas, games are an entertainment form as creative and vital as movies or music. —— boros. but as games become more popular and widespread, new problems are emerging, problems which we will have to address. yeah, indeed. so marc, is this a moral panic? yes, every couple of years this was a rounded newspapers like to give games grief and this time, the massive success and popularity of fortnite has focused a lot of pa rents of fortnite has focused a lot of parents attention on how much time their kids are spending playing video games and what games they are playing. on that subject, would you

say there are certain genres of games that cause problems? what's interesting, i asked the world health organization about this and they were really vague. they set up on line multiplayer games. you couldn't be more vague because a wide variety of different games which are on line multiplayer and ultimately, when pressed, they said more research needed to be done. ultimately, when pressed, they said more research needed to be donem your opinion, if they can't talk about the genre of games, other certain things within games, certain things that gamers do that trigger these problems? again, i ask them about that and they said that they we re about that and they said that they were concerned about certain mechanics in games. they were particularly concerned about monetisation of anything that from a bash resembles gambling. so micro payments, we buy the things. absolutely, very concerned. lute boxes, where players can pay many of papera boxes, where players can pay many of paper a key which opens up new skills, new outfits. that was a concern. and it's been a certain governments around the world who are

starting to ban that in games. welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that mercedes launched its first all electric car, despite no official pricetag yet, thousands being pre— ordered. certainly finally ends its repair service the bestselling games console of all time, playstation two. —— sony. it's been six years since they stopped making them. and these have been banned in schools in france. the new law will affect pupils up to the age of around 15. the government hopes it will reduce distractions during class, encourage more physical activity and help tackle on line bullying. and added the uk's —— the head the uk's largest police service wa nts a ccess head the uk's largest police service wants access to facebook profiles within minutes of starting a serious crime investigation. it comes after the suspect in the fatal stabbing of

a 13—year—old girl was sentenced to 14 a 13—year—old girl was sentenced to 1a months behind bars forfailing to hand over his password to officers. and last, but not least. for the first time, a robot boat has made it across the atlantic, taking 80 days and sailing over 5000 kilometres, the unmanned and slightly small vessel made the arduous journey from canada to the coast of ireland. powered by batteries that are recharged by its solar panels, the vessel was not finished yet and is currently making its way towards norway. sarah! sarah? sarah! lady, ifound her. it's every parent ‘s nightmare, losing sight of your child even for a few seconds can be terrifying. and

ina a few seconds can be terrifying. and in a dystopian future of black mirror, it leads this mother to implant her child with an all seeing monitoring device. one slightly less invasive solution is to give them a smartphone, which means they are co nta cta ble smartphone, which means they are contactable and trackable using gps and in fact, 83% of young teenagers in the uk now own a smartphone which of course raises the spectre of device addiction from an early age. so what if you had a way of knowing your child's location and communicating with them without the need for a smartphone? enter the norwegian explorer smart watch, children's wearable with an inbuilt play disrupt card —— sim card and a gps locator. parents will get an alert if they leave the safety zone. it acts as a phone, allowing a child to receive calls and texts from trusted contacts or send an sos if they feel in danger. sounds like a

good idea, but wherever there is tracking, there is the worry of hacking, and the boss admits it is a very sensitive issue. as a parent with young kids myself i want to know they are safe and want to know where they are, but i also don't wa nt where they are, but i also don't want anyone else to know where they are. there is the worry of hacking with any kind of location tracking. yeah, we have been working intensively with the data detection agencies in norway and germany, and also with a third party, a world recognised certifying partner for security circumflex —— services. recognised certifying partner for security circumflex -- services. do you think there is a danger we are moving towards a society where we are happy to constantly cedar vale our children and family? —— surveil. moving towards a world where there is no priddis be? do you think there is no priddis be? do you think there is an age at which kids do not need to wear this kind of device? these devices are designed for kids below

the moment they have a smartphone. there are also some news cases that we try to promote all the time around health, that is, if your child is going great football match or doing some activity out of air, sometimes a smartphone is not the best thing to wear, but a smart watches able to keep you connected, right? so there are some news cases, even for teenage years, where the watch is quite useful. the increasing worry is that the kids have all the time with the tablets, with their devices, and we want them to go out and play, notjust be connected, with the family, no access to social media etc, but as well, the outside, injoy and experience out of your home, right? with your friends and your family. but being all the time would be ta blets. but being all the time would be tablets. of course they will still have a lot of time with the tablets, smartphones, consoles, et cetera.

this is nelson ‘s column in trafalgar square, and forever 150 yea rs its trafalgar square, and forever 150 years its base has been guarded by four giant allianz. —— lions. but soon these guys will be joined by a fifth, and a rather unusual one. it is arriving with the help of google and paul carter went to find out more. protest, celebrations, morning —— mourning. trafalgar square has long been a place where voices come together. the lions which have sat in the square since 1867 have heard them all. what if they could speak? as pa rt of them all. what if they could speak? as part of the london design festival, a fifth line will appear in the square, powered by machine learning. the result is an interactive sculpture called please feed the lions, a collaboration between designer as devlin and the

google arts and culture lab. members of the public will be able to feed the lions with words, which in turn will generate poetry created by an artificial neural network. it uses an algorithm known as long short term memory recovery neural network. snappy. it has learnt how to write by reading millions of words of 19th—century poetry relevant to the time the lions were first installed in the square. machine learning becomes a way not to replace human poetry writing, but a way to allow people who wouldn't normally be able to write a poem, or wouldn't normally think of writing a poem, to enable them to gather their words together and form a collective strea m together and form a collective stream of thought, to add order to what could otherwise be chaos of people jammed together with their thoughts. and you don't have to go to the square to take part in this. you can go on to the website and contribute online as well. it is not just for londoners, that is important to me. the algorithm works by learning to predict the next text character over and over again, a lwa ys character over and over again, always taking into account those

that came before, similar to predictive text, repeating this protest ashlar process until the condition accurately with sequences it hasn't seen before. when members of the public feeding their own words, the machine will expand them into its form of poetry. once the poems have been generated they will be projected onto a screen in the mouth of the lion, and when it gets dark, onto nelson's column. hang on a minute. isn't asking members of the public to input their own words asking trouble? we have applied filters, so, filters where all of the words have to be in the oxford english dictionary, and then there are filters against offensive words. and if you try to enter a words that the lion is not happy with, it will simply tell you, i am unable to digesters were. please try again. so, with al and machine learning becoming more commonplace in the arts, what does the future hold for the relationship tween art and technology? does technology make

sense? does it add a value? if not, then, you know, leave the art alone. but if it can be a tool, a creative tool, perhaps, or perhaps a collaborator, and i would say with the case of the lions it is both a tool and a collaborator, or perhaps it enables the arts to be accessed and experienced more broadly. that was paul carter. now, ithink and experienced more broadly. that was paul carter. now, i think it is fairto was paul carter. now, i think it is fair to say we have a pretty fun job here at click. but there is one company which dedicates a whole day every year to letting its employees simply play. kate russell went to see just what difference that can make. the late great sir george renard sure is said to have said, we don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. —— bernard shaw. i came to lego headquarters in london to find out more about the science behind play. for lego employees, the

seventh of september is play day, when they take time off from their normal duties to have fun with the products at the heart of the business. i think the play day is a time thrust to get back to understanding our own motives, get back to understanding why we are here, the department that you are m, here, the department that you are in, to think about the fact that i might be in usd, i might be in finance, but at the end of the day i am here to get the smile on kids faces. you'll get no argument from me that day of play is good for the spirit, but is there a scientific reason it could be good our health? that is the question scientists at the university of london want to answer. so, this is a unprecedented exploits the research programme —— project to try to understand the effect of play. we have a controlled environment at the beginning, a regular workday, and then we have a play day where they are exposed throughout the day to a variety of interventions. then we have a day afterwards, in which we can examine the residual affect of the play day on the individuals. today they are

running a proof of concept pilot to see what results is a serious study might turn up in the future. a small group of volunteers have been connected to heart rate monitors to measure the physiological effect of stimulating play throughout his series of different activities. they will also be self reporting the psychological effects by answering a series of specially designed questions through a chat what. ian is the man with the tac. what is that? this is a high-resolution heart monitor. it is 1000 hertz. you put it on the top come in contact with the skin, put that around the back, and clip it on. brilliant. and go play. if i must! back, and clip it on. brilliant. and go play. if! must! i am a big rollercoaster fa n, go play. if! must! i am a big rollercoaster fan, and what better way to get your heart racing? i recruited mini me and is mini spencerfor some good recruited mini me and is mini spencer for some good old—fashioned play. critics claimed that the brain

controls the speed of our heartbeats based on what is going on around us. when we need greater concentration or to handle stressful situations it speeds up the heart, increasing blood flow. the heart slows back down again when the entry period of rest and recovery. it looks like mini spencer might need a longer period of convalescence after that right. yeah, i was wrecking it, to be honest. what are the results you expect to get from the baseline versus expect to get from the baseline versus the play day with our lego people? so, what we are expecting to see is really getting gauge that. the scores will go down as they need more energy, more concentration on the really difficult tasks. and really good recoveries as well, because they are enjoying it. so once they have had that stressful moment they should be able to bounce back and recover quickly for the next one. if you are constantly stressed and on age, you won't experience the peaks and troughs associated with healthy brain— heart activity. there is a different between acute stress and chronic stress. acute stress you expect, if

a lion pops up a hind you, fight or flight a lion pops up a hind you, fight or flight is the right response. if you have long—term stress, chronic stress, that can be much more negative indication. i think everybody is really excited now. there is a whole renewed energy worldwide around well—being in the workplace and trying to understand how we can better motivate and engage with workforces and employees, and i think play is an interesting and innovative way to do that. the results are in from this pilot and they suggest certain types of play could help workers recover more quickly from stressful periods. crucially, they might help raise levels of confidence and creativity in certain personality types. i guess i am the type of personality that would quite happily sit in a spinning top all day. spencer! spencer! can we get one of these in the office, please? so that is what is rofl means, rolling on the floor laughing. yes,

we will get one for you, kate. don't forget, we live on facebook and twitter. thanks for watching. see you soon. good morning. the weekend is upon us. many of us will see a little bit of rain at some stage in the weekend. that is by no means the whole story. there will be a lot of dry weather around as well and some spells of sunshine. quite a complex pressure pattern. high pressure to the south. one area of low pressure to the north—east. then this wriggling weather front pushing in from the atlantic. this is essentially going to send a pipeline of moisture in across central parts of the uk. for wales, the midlands, northern england, we will seek outbreaks of rain through the day,

the odd heavy burst. some of that rain dribbling down into east anglia. the further south you are more in the way of dry weather, some brightness and brighter skies to be had further north through saturday afternoon. extra cloud through the far north—east of scotland. get yourself into some sunshine. aberdeen 16, 17 in glasgow. a cool fresh feel, similar story for northern ireland. northern england into wales and the midlands, outbreaks of rain at times, the odd heavy burst over the hills, particularly. it will be quite breezy. breezy further south as well. towards the channel islands you may see breaks in the cloud and a little bit of sunshine. remember that pipeline of moisture, it piles its way in as we go through saturday night into sunday. at this stage the rain will drift further north as well, perhaps getting into southern scotland. cool in north—east scotland, further south with a fair amount of cloud it will be mild. outbreaks of rain across western and some northern parts of the uk. there could be patchy rain and drizzle around through the morning, close to newcastle, as the great north run gets under way. as we go on through the day i am

hopeful the cloud will start to break up. we'll see spells of sunshine developing into the afternoon. temperatures around 16 or 17. it will be fairly breezy. across the rest of the country, a similar story. rain will drift across many northern parts of england, northern ireland, and scotland. the rain continues across northern scotland through the day. some thundery showers later on. increasingly windy. further south, more sunshine towards the south east and some slightly higher temperatures as well. moving out of sunday and into monday, high pressure still influencing the weather in the south. more frontal systems in towards the north—west. it will be northern and western parts of the uk that will see outbreaks of rain, often breezy conditions. further south, more in the way of dry weather. some sunshine. and it will start to warm up as well. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to

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