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From the abstract: "Collective Artificial Intelligence (CAI) simulates human intelligence from data contributed by many
humans, mined for inter-related patterns. This thesis applies CAI to social role-playing, introducing an
end-to-end process for compositing recorded performances from thousands of humans, and simulating
open-ended interaction from this data. The CAI process combines crowdsourcing, pattern discovery, and
case-based planning. Content creation is crowdsourced by recording role-players online. Browser-based
tools allow non-experts to annotate data, organizing content into a hierarchical narrative structure.
Patterns discovered from data power a novel system combining plan recognition with case-based
planning. The combination of this process and structure produces a new medium, which exploits a
massive corpus to realize characters who interact and converse with humans. This medium enables new
experiences in videogames, and new classes of training simulations, therapeutic applications, and social
robots. .... As a proof of concept, a CAI system has been evaluated by recording over 10,000 performances
in The Restaurant Game, automating an AI-controlled waitress who interacts in the world, and
converses with a human via text or speech. Quantitative results demonstrate CAI supports significantly
open-ended interaction with humans, while focus groups reveal factors for improving engagement."
"This course is designed to be a fun introduction to the basics of programming in Python. Our main focus will be on building simple interactive games such as Pong, Blackjack and Asteroids."
Virginia state attorney general enlists George Mason game design students to create games to combat aggressive online game and social media recruiting tactics employed by street gangs
"Jane McGonigal's Super Better: A game for your health (video) The renowned game designer sits down with SmartPlanet's Sumi Das to talk about her new online social game, which debuts today and promises to help people build their personal resilience against health ailments."
Considers two mutliplayer games in the context of political economy and social science, arguing at the same time the relevance of video games for academic studies
An interactive computer game "to detect and quantify the influence of color on the performance of people executing tasks that require attention and showed to be attractive for people with ADHD. "
From the abstract: "This paper presents a framework for evaluating and designing game design patterns commonly called as "achievements". The results are based on empirical studies of a variety of popular achievement systems. The results, along with the framework for analyzing and designing achievements, present two definitions of game achievements. From the perspective of the achievement system, an achievement appears as a challenge consisting of a signifying element, rewards and completion logics whose fulfilment conditions are defined through events in other systems (usually games). From the perspective of a single game, an achievement appears as an optional challenge provided by a meta-game that is independent of a single game session and yields possible reward(s)." Presented at DiGRA 2011 Conference: Think Design Play.
"Based on a year of research conducted by
The Children's Partnership, this White Paper
lays out the logic for game companies to
play a leadership role on behalf of children,
reviews the rich history of corporate social
responsibility that has produced win-win
results for the public and for businesses,
and highlights early examples of such
leadership by online game companies."
"What we want to make sure, when the next wave builds, that people see that there's an infrastructure already in place in Worcester,'' McGovern said. "We want this to be the video gaming corridor of not only the Northeast, but the country.'' Becker College offers an academic program in digital game development that was ranked among the top 10 in the nation by Princeton Review Inc., a test prep and online learning company.