Entertainment Computing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Invited Talks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Under the Influence: Using Natural Language in Interactive Storytelling

      • Marc Cavazza, Fred Charles, Steven J. Mead

      Pages 3-11

   3. Interactivity and Non-Linearity: What do They Really Mean?

      • Donald Marinelli

      Pages 13-20

3. Computers & Games

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Multi-Goal Path-Finding for Autonomous Agents in Virtual Worlds

      • Philippe Codognet

      Pages 23-30

   3. Multiplayer Game Cheating Prevention with Pipelined Lockstep Protocol

      • Ho Lee, Eric Kozlowski, Scott Lenker, Sugih Jamin

      Pages 31-39

   4. Complex Games and Palm Computers

      • Pieter Spronck, Jaap van den Herik

      Pages 41-48

   5. Facilitating Learning in a Real Time Strategy Computer Game

      • Penelope Sweetser, Simon Dennis

      Pages 49-56

   6. A Toolkit for Developing Programs of Card Games Played on the Internet

      • Masato Koide, Jingde Cheng

      Pages 57-64

   7. A Metric for Entertainment of Boardgames: Its Implication for Evolution of Chess Variants

      • Hiroyuki Iida, Nobuo Takeshita, Jin Yoshimura

      Pages 65-72

   8. Threat Stacks to Guide Pruning and Search Extensions in Shogi

      • Reijer Grimbergen

      Pages 73-80

   9. The Evolution of Strong Othello Programs

      • Michael Buro

      Pages 81-88

4. Home/Arcade Games and Interactive Movies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Digital Storytelling with DINAH: Dynamic, Interactive, Narrative Authoring Heuristic

      • David Ventura, David Brogan

      Pages 91-99

   3. Real-Time Character Animation Using Puppet Metaphor

      • Yoshihiro Okada

      Pages 101-108

   4. Fly through View Video Generation of Soccer Scene

      • Naho Inamoto, Hideo Saito

      Pages 109-116

   5. Prototyping Mobile Game Applications

      • Johan Sanneblad, Lars Erik Holmquist

      Pages 117-124

   6. A Method for Real-Time Rendering of Water Droplets Taking into Account Interactive Depth of Field Effects

      • Tomoya Sato, Yoshinori Dobashi, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

      Pages 125-132

   7. Kirifuki: Inhaling and Exhaling Interaction with Visual Objects

      • Soichiro Iga, Fumito Higuchi

      Pages 133-140

This volume is the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Entertainment Computing (IWEC 2002). Entertainment has been taking very important parts in our life by refreshing us and activating our creativity. Recently by the advancement of computers and networks new types of entertainment have been emerging such as video games, entertainment robots, and network games. As these new games have a strong power to change our lives, it is good time for people who work in this area to discuss various aspects of entertainment and to promote entertainment related researches. Based on these considerations, we have organized a first workshop on entertainment computing. This workshop brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in the area of entertainment computing. It covers wide range of entertainment computing such as theoretical issues, hardware/software issues, systems, human interfaces, and applications. The particular areas covered by the workshop are: 1. Computers & Games Computer game algorithms, modeling of players, web technologies for networked games, human interface technologies for game applications. 2. Home/Arcade Games and Interactive Movies Video game computer technologies, motion capture technologies, real-time computer graphics technologies, interactive movie systems, story generation for games/movies, human factors of video games.

• LEGO Mindstorms
• Mindstorms
• Performance
• algorithms
• animation
• autonom
• autonomous agents
• communication
• composing
• computer vision
• learning
• rendering
• robot
• virtual reality

• Kwansei Gakuin University/ATR, Japan

  Ryohei Nakatsu

• University of Tsukuba / PRESTO, JST, Japan

  Junichi Hoshino

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