Play with Fire is an interactive art installation that proposes participants to ignite generative fires over live streaming video of selected forests. This experience paradoxically encourages playing with fire to stimulate awareness and prevention of ...

This demonstration is a showcase of an interactive storytelling (IS) game consisting of verbal conversations between two virtual agents and a user. It is the result of a University project in interactive media, based on the IS platform Scenejo. As novel ...

We developed a multimedia display system for information kiosks that clearly presents the structure and amount of information available in a tangible and interactive environment with an intuitive interface---a common paper pamphlet. With this interface, ...

We developed a new digital kaleidoscope called "interacumos," which generates interactive videos with depth perception based on the infinite reflections of a six-sided mirrored cubic kaleidoscope. We installed OLED panels and pressure sensors in a cubic ...

This paper presents a demonstration of a pedagogical highly interactive drama, which provides the user with many choices on the course of the narrative, by controlling a character in an immersive 3D story.

Immersion in video has a strong impact on the viewers' emotions, their sense of presence and engagement, and thus on the entertainment quality of the experience. 360° videos have the potential to generate highly immersive video environments, by allowing ...

This paper proposes a method for conveying emotions in face-to-face communication by superimposing comic book images on real world using augmented reality technology. We implemented a system named "Intra-expo" that superimposes comic book images which ...

A more flexible and impressive depiction results with traditional hand-drawn animation than with computer graphics. We propose a technique for anime-like exaggeration of perspective. Our technique is used to achieve a dynamic depiction when rendering ...

A new non-photorealistic rendering method using a depth map has been developed, on the basis of which a real-time cartoon-like video converter called Takumi was created. Many systems have been proposed that convert a given image into a non-...

In this paper, we present an augmented reality (AR) iPhone game for learning multiculturalism and solidarity. The subject was chosen based on a study in which participated 150 professionals. The game was designed following different design principles. ...

This paper synthetically presents a reliable and generic way to evaluate the difficulty of video games, and an experiment testing its accuracy and concordance with subjective assessments of difficulty. We propose a way to split the gameplay into ...

Although there has been a surge in computer games research in recent years, studies of gamers' experience of different game genres are very few. Furthermore, even these few studies of gamers' experience are almost all based on Western/European players. ...

Serious games became an important device for increasing the awareness of issues that are important to society. One such issue is the environmental impact of driving. To support the training and wide promotion of eco-friendly driving, an appropriate ...

This paper presents an approach for non-programming writers in Interactive Storytelling to structure interactive conversations in the authoring process to achieve high potential variability during interactions. At the same time, the presentation ...

In this paper we describe an architecture to influence a user in an interactive storytelling context that is based on results from the social psychology's area of persuasion. Several important concepts of persuasion, such as how people make decisions, ...

In location-based games, players act as their own avatar within in the physical world. Such games are increasing in popularity due to the wide adoption of smartphones that contain the location sensors necessary for their play. When played on a small, ...

Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets offer great new possibilities for the creation of 3D games and virtual reality environments. However, interaction with objects in these virtual worlds is often difficult -- for example due to the devices' ...

Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) are interactive narrative experiences that engage the player by layering a fictional world over the real world. Mobile ARG stories are often geo-specific, requiring players to visit specific locations in the world. ...

"Conversational Agents" (CAs) are virtual characters controlled by the computer and able to dialogue with users in natural language. CAs are usually employed in virtual world applications, such as for training, gaming or advertising, in order to ...

Following the growing phenomenon that is video games, interest on Serious Games has been increasing. Serious Games aim to add educational or training purposes to traditional video games, in order to take advantage of video games' inherent engaging ...