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2007
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Utzon's studio as a collaborative virtual environment
In order to investigate the design of virtual place for creative collaboration, I have modeled scenes from a real place of creative collaboration – Jørn Utzon's studios, w...
Viveka Weiley
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Real time art engines 3: post-convergent creative practice in MUVEs
In this paper, I describe a possible creative model for approaching realtime 3D Multi-user Virtual Environments (MUVEs) as formal, audio-visual composition environments. The model...
Adam Nash
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
My guild, my people: role of guilds in massively multiplayer online games
Massively Multiplayer Online Games continue to grow and attract more users. The social aspect of MMOs differentiates them from single person games, increase user loyalty and often...
Yusuf Pisan
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Evolving images for entertainment
Images are widely used in media contexts such as web design, games and video animation. The process of creating interesting images can be enjoyable if a useful tool is involved. I...
Qinying Xu, Daryl J. D'Souza, Victor Ciesielski
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Sam Fisher versus Immanuel Kant: the ethics of interactive media
This paper explores the notion of ethical engagement in interactive media through an examination of the Splinter Cell series of games. Keywords Interactive Media, Ethics, Stealth ...
Scott Beattie
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
An evaluation framework for videogame based tasking of remote vehicles
Unmanned vehicles (UV’s) are increasingly being employed in civil and military domains often for operations in dangerous environments. Typically these vehicles require some leve...
Adam J. Hassell, Philip Smith, David Stratton
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Portal-based sound propagation for first-person computer games
First-person computer games are a popular modern video game genre. A new method is proposed, the Directional Propagation Cache, that takes advantage of the very common portal spat...
Cameron Foale, Peter Vamplew
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Beings in the game-world: characters, avatars, and players
Immersive and engaging are words often used interchangeably to describe the player’s experience of gameplay without clear distinction between what these terms refer to, and with...
Peter Bayliss
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Capturing polymorphic creations: towards ontological heterogeneity and transmodiology
This paper addresses the vast practice encompassed under the placeholder term polymorphic creations: contemporary tie-ins, pervasive gaming, telematic arts and so on. A position i...
Christy Dena