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Entertainment Computing

Technologies and Application

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Ryohei Nakatsu

    1. Kwansei Gakuin University/ATR, Japan

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  2. Junichi Hoshino

    1. University of Tsukuba / PRESTO, JST, Japan

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Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 112)

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Table of contents (65 chapters)

  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
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kwansei Gakuin University/ATR, Japan

    Ryohei Nakatsu

  • University of Tsukuba / PRESTO, JST, Japan

    Junichi Hoshino

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