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ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
3DCG authoring system using turtle metaphor
A new type of Authoring System for 3DCG animation is developed in which a user can easily manipulate three dimensional objects in three dimensional simulated space on the computer...
Katsuhide Tsushima, Masayuki Ueno, Takeshi Nishiki...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 9 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
ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Straw-like user interface: virtual experience of the sensation of drinking using a straw
The Straw-like User Interface is a novel interface system that allows us to virtually experience the sensations of drinking. These sensations are created based on referencing samp...
Yuki Hashimoto, Naohisa Nagaya, Minoru Kojima, Sat...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
How real should virtual characters be?
In recent years 3D virtual characters have become more common in desktop interfaces, particularly in gaming and entertainment applications. In this paper we describe how augmented...
Daniel Wagner, Mark Billinghurst, Dieter Schmalsti...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The VoodooIO gaming kit: a real-time adaptable gaming controller
Existing gaming controllers are limited in their end-user configurability. As a complement to current game control technology, we present the VoodooIO Gaming Kit, a real-time adap...
Nicolas Villar, Kiel Mark Gilleade, Devina Ramduny...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
AI-based world behaviour for emergent narratives
Research in Interactive Narrative has developed new approaches to the behaviour of virtual actors, but has dedicated little attention to the physical behaviour of the environment ...
Jean-Luc Lugrin, Marc Cavazza
ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Age invaders
—This paper introduces Age Invaders (AI), a novel interactive inter-generation social-physical game which allows the elderly to play harmoniously together with children in physic...
Khoo Eng Tat, Shang Ping Lee, Adrian David Cheok
ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Wireless home entertainment center: reducing last hop delays for real-time applications
Future digital entertainment services available to home users will share several characteristics: i) they will be deployed and delivered through the Internet, ii) a single media c...
Claudio E. Palazzi, Giovanni Pau, Marco Roccetti, ...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A stylized cartoon hair renderer
This paper describes a new hair rendering technique for Anime characters. The overall goal is to improve current cel shaders by introducing a new hair model and hair shader. The h...
Jung Shin, Michael Haller, R. Mukundan
ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
From driving to expressive music performance: ensuring tempo smoothness
This paper focuses on the mapping strategies in the interface design for the Expression Synthesis Project (ESP). The goal of ESP is to use the metaphor of driving to allow non-exp...
Jie Liu, Elaine Chew, Alexandre R. J. Franç...