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AIIDE
2009
13 years 12 months ago
Demonstrating Automatic Content Generation in the Galactic Arms Race Video Game
In most modern video games, content (e.g. models, levels, weapons, etc.) shipped with the game is static and unchanging, or at best, randomized within a narrow set of parameters. ...
Erin J. Hastings, Ratan K. Guha, Kenneth O. Stanle...
AIIDE
2006
14 years 6 days ago
Incorporating Advice into Neuroevolution of Adaptive Agents
Neuroevolution is a promising learning method in tasks with extremely large state and action spaces and hidden states. Recent advances allow neuroevolution to take place in real t...
Chern Han Yong, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkula...
IWEC
2007
14 years 7 days ago
Marble Market: Bimanual Interactive Game with a Body Shape Sensor
A video game application was developed using SmartSkin, a body shape sensing device. The video game uses a table-sized SmartSkin that can recognize players’ arms on the tabletop....
Kentaro Fukuchi, Jun Rekimoto
IWEC
2008
14 years 7 days ago
Towards Emotional Characters in Computer Games
This paper describes our research on integrating emotion aspects into characters of video games. Motivation for this is the significant absence of emotive expression in most charac...
Robert Schaap, Rafael Bidarra
ICALT
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Collaborative Learning by Means of Video Games: An Entertainment System in the Learning Processes
New Technologies have been incorporated to schools as learning tools some time ago. In this paper we remark some advantages of video games as educational systems and how we can us...
Natalia Padilla Zea, José Luis Gonzá...
DSVIS
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Toward Quality-Driven Development of 3D Computer Games
The development of video games is a complex software engineering activity bringing together large multidisciplinary teams under stringent constraints. While much has been written a...
T. C. Nicholas Graham, Will Roberts
CHI
1994
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
What HCI designers can learn from video game designers
Computer users have tasks they need to perform, and are therefore motivated to overcome poorly designed interfaces. With video games, there is no external motivation for the task ...
Randy Pausch, Rich Gold, Tim Skelly, David Thiel
CA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Active Voodoo Dolls: A Vision Based Input Device for Nonrigid Control
A vision based technique for nonrigid control is presented that can be used for animation and video game applications. The user grasps a soft, squishable object in front of a came...
John Isidoro, Stan Sclaroff
NIME
2005
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Sonictroller
The Sonictroller was originally conceived as a means of introducing competition into an improvisatory musical performance. By reverse-engineering a popular video game console, we ...
David Hindman, Spencer Kiser
NIME
2005
Springer
131views Music» more  NIME 2005»
14 years 4 months ago
The Convergence of Alternate Controllers and Musical Interfaces in Interactive Entertainment
This paper will investigate a variety of alternate controllers that are making an impact in interactive entertainment, particularly in the video game industry. Since the late 1990...
Tina Blaine