Towards player adaptivity in a serious game for conflict resolution

Proceedings - 2011 3rd International Conferenceon Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 192-198

  Grappiolo, Corrado ^a   Cheong, Yun Gyung ^a   Togelius, Julian ^a   Khaled, Rilla ^a   Yannakakis, Georgios N ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Player modelling; Procedural content generation; Serious games technology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVITY; CONFLICT RESOLUTION; GENERATION MECHANISM; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; PLAYER MODELLING; PROCEDURAL CONTENT GENERATION; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SERIOUS GAMES; TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATORS; UNDERLYING SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 80052123970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2011.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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