Real-time adaptation of augmented-reality games for optimizing player satisfaction

2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 103-110

  Yannakakis, Georgios N ^a   Hallam, John ^b  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION MECHANISM; ADAPTIVE APPROACH; ADAPTIVE MECHANISM; DERIVATIVE INFORMATION; GAME PARAMETERS; GAME PLAYERS; GRADIENT ASCENT; INTERACTIVE PLATFORM; REAL-TIME ADAPTATION; RULE BASED SYSTEM; TIME INTERVAL; USER MODELS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70349283587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2008.5035627     Document Type: Conference Paper

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