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IWEC
2004
14 years 5 days ago
Optical-Flow-Driven Gadgets for Gaming User Interface
We describe how to build a VIDEOPLACE-like vision-driven user interface using "optical-flow" measurements. The optical-flow denotes the estimated movement of an image pat...
Zoran Zivkovic
IWEC
2004
14 years 5 days ago
Background Music Generation Using Music Texture Synthesis
Abstract. This paper suggests a method to synthesize a long background music sequence from a given short music clip in real-time. The copies of input clip are placed with overlappe...
Min-Joon Yoo, In-Kwon Lee, Jung-Ju Choi
IWEC
2004
14 years 5 days ago
Computer Supported Collaborative Sports: Creating Social Spaces Filled with Sports Activities
We present the newly emerging research field of Computer Supported Collaborative Sports (CSCS). By applying innovative input and output technologies, it enables players to experien...
Volker Wulf, Eckehard F. Moritz, Christian Henneke...
IWEC
2004
14 years 5 days ago
Read-It: A Multi-modal Tangible Interface for Children Who Learn to Read
Multi-modal tabletop applications offer excellent opportunities for enriching the education of young children. Read-It is an example of an interactive game with a multi-modal tangi...
Ivo Weevers, Wouter Sluis, Claudia van Schijndel, ...
IWEC
2004
14 years 5 days ago
How Realistic is Realism? Considerations on the Aesthetics of Computer Games
One of the major goals in the development of virtual environments in recent years has been to create more and more realistic scenery, characters and natural human forms of interact...
Richard Wages, Stefan Grünvogel, Benno Gr&uum...
IWEC
2004
14 years 5 days ago
Animating Conversation in Online Games
When players in online games engage in conversation with each other, often through a chat window, their graphical avatars typically do not exhibit interesting behavior. This paper ...
Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson
IWEC
2004
14 years 5 days ago
Associated Emotion and Its Expression in an Entertainment Robot QRIO
Fumihide Tanaka, Kuniaki Noda, Tsutomu Sawada, Mas...
IWEC
2004
14 years 5 days ago
Enhancing the Performance of Dynamic Scripting in Computer Games
Unsupervised online learning in commercial computer games allows computer-controlled opponents to adapt to the way the game is being played. As such it provides a mechanism to deal...
Pieter Spronck, Ida G. Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, Eric O...
IWEC
2004
14 years 5 days ago
Commedia Virtuale: Theatre Inspiration for Expressive Avatars
We are investigating face, hand and body expressions to be applied to avatars of a virtual environment to improve their communication capabilities and enrich and facilitate their p...
Ben Salem
IWEC
2004
14 years 5 days ago
From Artistry to Automation: A Structured Methodology for Procedural Content Creation
Procedural techniques will soon automate many aspects of content creation for computer games. We describe an efficient, deterministic, methodology for procedurally generating 3D ga...
Timothy Roden, Ian Parberry