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AUIC
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
From pushing buttons to play and progress: value and interaction in fable
A value can be understood as a belief that one mode of conduct is preferable to others. The user-interface of computer games mediates all player conduct in the game and is therefo...
Pippin Barr, James Noble, Robert Biddle, Rilla Kha...
EDUTAINMENT
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Entertaining Education - Using Games-Based and Service-Oriented Learning to Improve STEM Education
This paper addresses the development of a computer game design and development curriculum at the authors’ institution. The basis for curriculum decisions, as well as comparison t...
Jon Preston, Briana Morrison
LADC
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Security Patterns and Secure Systems Design
Analysis and design patterns are well established as a convenient and reusable way to build high-quality object-oriented software. Patterns combine experience and good practices t...
Eduardo B. Fernández
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Mechanism Design for Single Leader Stackelberg Problems and Application to Procurement Auction Design
In this paper, we focus on mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems, which are a special case of hierarchical decision making problems in which a distinguished agent...
Dinesh Garg, Y. Narahari
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Inferring user goals from personality and behavior in a causal model of user affect
We present a probabilistic model, based on Dynamic Decision Networks, to assess user affect from possible causes of emotional arousal. The model relies on the OCC cognitive theory...
Xiaoming Zhou, Cristina Conati