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IAAI
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Guided Conversations about Leadership: Mentoring with Movies and Interactive Characters
Think Like a Commander – Excellence in Leadership (TLAC-XL) is an application designed for learning leadership skills both from the experiences of others and through a structure...
Randall W. Hill Jr., Jay Douglas, Andrew Gordon, F...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Motivated reinforcement learning for non-player characters in persistent computer game worlds
Massively multiplayer online computer games are played in complex, persistent virtual worlds. Over time, the landscape of these worlds evolves and changes as players create and pe...
Kathryn Elizabeth Merrick, Mary Lou Maher
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Storytelling alice motivates middle school girls to learn computer programming
We describe Storytelling Alice, a programming environment that introduces middle school girls to computer programming as a means to the end of creating 3D animated stories. Storyt...
Caitlin Kelleher, Randy F. Pausch, Sara B. Kiesler
INTERACT
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Attentional Effect of Animated Character
: Research has found that animated characters are capable of capturing users’ attention, engaging them in active tasks, and entertaining them. Such capabilities are pedagogical t...
Cholyeun Hongpaisanwiwat, Michael Lewis
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Learning to interact: connecting perception with action in virtual environments
Modeling synthetic characters which interact with objects in dynamic virtual worlds is important when we want the agents to act in an autonomous and non-preplanned way. Such inter...
Pedro Sequeira, Ana Paiva