Architecture for Affective Social Games

Abstract. The importance of affect in delivering engaging experiences in entertainment and education is well recognized. We introduce the Koko architecture, which describes a service-oriented middleware that reduces the burden of incorporating affect into games and other entertainment applications. Koko provides a representation for affect, thereby enabling developers to concentrate on the functional and creative aspects of their applications. The Koko architecture makes three key contributions: (1) improving developer productivity by creating a reusable and extensible environment; (2) yielding an enhanced user experience by enabling independently developed applications to collaborate and provide a more coherent user experience than currently possible; (3) enabling affective communication in multiplayer and social games.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: AGS
• Authors: Derek J. Sollenberger, Munindar P. Singh
• Keywords: AGS 2009, Computer Graphics, Enhanced User Experience, Koko Architecture, User Experience