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ACMACE
2011
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
WeQuest: scalable alternate reality games through end-user content authoring
Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) are interactive narrative experiences that engage the player by layering a fictional world over the real world. Mobile ARG stories are often geo-sp...
Andrew Macvean, Sanjeet Hajarnis, Brandon Headrick...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
The intermediary agent's brain: supporting learning to collaborate at the inter-personal level
We discuss the design of the Intermediary Agent's brain, the control module of an embodied conversational virtual peer in a simulation game aimed at providing learning experi...
Juan Martínez-Miranda, Bernhard Jung, Sabin...
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
EnergyLife: pervasive energy awareness for households
We present Energy Life a system utilizing wireless sensors, mobile and ambient interfaces that turn energy consumers into active players. Energy Life participants play through dif...
Christoffer Björkskog, Giulio Jacucci, Lucian...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 12 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...
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Talking with NPCs: Towards Dynamic Generation of Discourse Structures
Dialogue in commercial games is largely created by teams of writers and designers who hand-author every line of dialogue and hand-specify the dialogue structure using finite state...
Christina R. Strong, Michael Mateas