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HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Immersive Digital Games: The Interfaces for Next-Generation E-Learning?
The intrinsic motivation to play, and therefore to learn, that might be provided by digital educational games teases researchers and developers. However, existing educational games...
Michael D. Kickmeier-Rust, Neil Peirce, Owen Conla...
ACMACE
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Playmakers in multiplayer game communities: their importance and motivations for participation
In many game-like open-ended multiplayer communities, the success of the game, and well-being of the community, depends on the efforts of certain individuals who arrange resources...
Antti Salovaara, Mikael Johnson, Kalle Toiskallio,...
GECCO
2008
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Using coevolution to understand and validate game balance in continuous games
We attack the problem of game balancing by using a coevolutionary algorithm to explore the space of possible game strategies and counter strategies. We define balanced games as g...
Ryan E. Leigh, Justin Schonfeld, Sushil J. Louis
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Physical activity motivating games: virtual rewards for real activity
Contemporary lifestyle has become increasingly sedentary: little physical (sports, exercises) and much sedentary (TV, computers) activity. The nature of sedentary activity is self...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Mac Coombe, Jill Freyne, Dipak B...