Modeling children's entertainment in the playware playground

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 134-141

  Yannakakis, Georgios N ^a   Lund, Henrik Hautop ^a   Hallam, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Entertainment modeling; Intelligent interactive playgrounds; Neuro evolution

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS;

DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT; ENTERTAINMENT MODELING; EVOLVING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; INTERACTIVE PLAYGROUNDS; NEURO EVOLUTIONS; PLAYER SATISFACTIONS; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 45149135516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2006.311692     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. J. E. Laird and M. van Lent, "Human-level AI's killer application: Interactive computer games," in Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 2000, pp. 1171-1178.
2. J. D. Funge. Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games. A. K. Peters Ltd, 2004.
3. A. J. Champandard, AI Game Development. New Riders Publishing, 2004.
4. G. N. Yannakakis and J. Hallam, "A scheme for creating digital entertainment with substance," in Proceedings of the Workshop on Reasoning, Representation, and Learning in Computer Games, 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), August 2005, pp. 119-124.
5. T. W. Malone, "What makes computer games fun?" Byte, vol. 6, pp. 258-277, 1981.
6. N. Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood. London: Allen, 1983.
7. S. Kline, Out of the Garden: Toys and Children's Culture in the Age of Marketing. Verso, 1993.
8. H. H. Lund, T. Klitbo, and C. Jessen, "Playware technology for physically activating play," Artifical Life and Robotics Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 165-174, 2005.
9. M. Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.
10. th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-04), S. Schaal, A. Ijspeert, A. Billard, S. Vijayakumar, J. Hallam, and J.-A. Meyer, Eds. Santa Monica, LA, CA: The MIT Press, July 2004, pp. 499-508.
11. T. Graepel, R. Herbrich, and J. Gold, "Learning to fight," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Games: Artificial Intelligence, Design and Education, Microsoft Campus, Reading, UK, November 2004, pp. 193-200.
12. A. Nareyek, "Intelligent agents for computer games," in Computers and Games, Second International Conference, CG 2002, T. Marsland and I. Frank, Eds., 2002, pp. 414-422.
13. N. A. Taatgen, M. van Oploo, J. Braaksma, and J. Niemantsverdriet, "How to construct a believable opponent using cognitive modeling in the game of set," in Proceedings of the fifth international conference on cognitive modeling, 2003, pp. 201-206.
14. H. Iida, N. Takeshita, and J. Yoshimura, "A metric for entertainment of boardgames: its implication for evolution of chess variants," in FWEC2002 Proceedings, R. Nakatsu and J. Hoshino, Eds. Kluwer, 2003, pp. 65-72.
15. G. N. Yannakakis, "Al in Computer Games: Generating Interesting Interactive Opponents by the use of Evolutionary Computation," Ph.D. thesis. University of Edinburgh, November 2005.
16. G. N. Yannakakis and J. Hallam, "A Generic Approach for Obtaining Higher Entertainment in Predator/Prey Computer Games," Journal of Game Development, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 23-50, December 2005.
17. G. Andrade, G. Ramalho, H. Santana, and V. Corruble, "Extending reinforcement learning to provide dynamic game balancing," in Proceedings of the Workshop on Reasoning, Representation, and Learning in Computer Games, 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), August 2005, pp. 7-12.
18. M. A. Verma and P. W. McOwan, "An adaptive methodology for synthesising mobile phone games using genetic algorithms," in Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-05), Edinburgh, UK, September 2005, pp. 528-535.
19. M. Lindstrom and P. Seybold, BRANDchild: Insights into the Minds of Today's Global Kids: Understanding Their Relationship with Brands. Kogan Page, 1994.
20. R. Pfeifer and C. Scheier, Understanding Intelligence. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1999.
21. R. J. Orr and G. D. Abowd, "The smart floor: a mechanism for natural user identification and tracking," in CHI '00: CHI '00 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. NY, USA: ACM Press. 2000, pp. 275-276.
22. A. Bobick, S. Intille, J. Davis, F. Baird, C. Pinhanez, L. Campbell, Y. Ivanov, A. Schutte, and A. Wilson, "The kidsroom: A perceptually-based interactive and immersive story environment," MIT Media Laboratory, Technical Report 398, December 1996.
23. B. Richardson, K. Leydon, M. Femström, and J. A. Paradiso. "Z-tiles: Building blocks for modular, pressure-sensing floorspaces," in Proceedings of CHI 2004. NY, USA: ACM Press, 2004, pp. 1529-1532.
24. C. Beal, J. Beck, D. Westbrook, M. Atkin, and P. Cohen, "Intelligent modelling of the user in interactive entertainment," in Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment, Stanford, 2002, pp. 8-12.
25. X. Yao, "Evolving artificial neural networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 87, no. 9, 1999, pp. 1423-1447.
26. J. H. Holland, Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. Ann Arbor, Ml: University of Michigan Press, 1975.
27. D. J. Montana and L. D. Davis, "Training feedforward neural networks using genetic algorithms," in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-89). San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kauffman, 1989, pp. 762-767.