Mobile devices became powerful recently and wireless Internet access is becoming standard. One important class of networked, mobile applications are location based games, making e...
In this paper, we examine the relationship between digital games and interest in computer science. When we undertook this research, our goal was to expand upon past work that expl...
Building upon research on motivation theory, we provide insights on how video games can be framed as expert tools that naturally reconcile learning and fun, a worthy goal since st...
Designing agents whose behavior challenges human players adequately is a key issue in computer games development. This work presents a novel technique, based on reinforcement lear...
Gustavo Andrade, Geber Ramalho, Hugo Santana, Vinc...
We describe a technique to manage pre-written lines of dialog by treating a conversation as a game. Thinking of conversation as a game means structuring it as a series of moves, m...