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HCI
2009
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Antecedents of Attributions in an Educational Game for Social Learning: Who's to Blame?
Games are increasingly being used as educational tools, in part because they are presumed to enhance student motivation. We look at student motivation in games from the viewpoint o...
Amy Ogan, Vincent Aleven, Julia Kim, Christopher J...
HCI
2009
13 years 10 months ago
Game Usability Heuristics (PLAY) for Evaluating and Designing Better Games: The Next Iteration
Game developers have begun applying formal human-computer interaction (HCI) principles in design. Desurvire et al [2] adapted a set of Heuristics for productivity software to games...
Heather Desurvire, Charlotte Wiberg
GI
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Autonomous Units to Model Games
: Communities of autonomous units are devices to model the interaction of independent processes in a rule-based and graphical way. In this paper, the framework is proposed to descr...
Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Sabine Kuske, Hauke T&oum...
GI
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The relation between protocols and games
: Both, games in a game theoretic sense and protocols in an informational sense describe rule based interactions between systems. Some similarities and differences of both approach...
Johannes Reich
GAMEON
2009
13 years 10 months ago
Explorations in Player Motivations: Game Mechanics
This article, assuming that player motivations are the outcome of continuous player-environment interactions, applies the needs framework of Murray (1938) to a computer game and i...
Barbaros Bostan, Ugur Kaplancali
IPCV
2010
13 years 10 months ago
3D Camera-based Generic Gesture Analysis for Video Game Interface
- Conventional video games are controlled by players via physical game controllers. A new emerging trend for game control in recent years is to use intelligent sensor based interfa...
Gang Hu, Qigang Gao
FORMATS
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Expected Reachability-Time Games
In an expected reachability-time game (ERTG) two players, Min and Max, move a token along the transitions of a probabilistic timed automaton, so as to minimise and maximise, respec...
Vojtech Forejt, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norma...
CG
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Score Bounded Monte-Carlo Tree Search
Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a successful algorithm used in many state of the art game engines. We propose to improve a MCTS solver when a game has more than two outcomes. It ...
Tristan Cazenave, Abdallah Saffidine
VSGAMES
2010
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Validation of Serious Games Attributes Using the Technology Acceptance Model
—The paper introduces a conceptual model for the design of serious games and uses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) for its validation. A specially developed game introduced ...
Amri Yusoff, Richard Crowder, Lester Gilbert
TCS
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Invariant games
In the context of 2-player removal games, we define the notion of invariant game for which each allowed move is independent of the position it is played from. We present a family ...
Éric Duchêne, Michel Rigo