Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2009: 8th International Conference, Paris, France, September 3-5, 2009. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Player Performance, Satisfaction, and Video Game Enjoyment....Pages 1-12
Analysis of Area Revisitation Patterns in World of Warcarft....Pages 13-23
Scaling the Level of Difficulty in Single Player Video Games....Pages 24-35
Dance Motion Control of a Humanoid Robot Based on Real-Time Tempo Tracking from Musical Audio Signals....Pages 36-47
Marker-Less Tracking for Multi-layer Authoring in AR Books....Pages 48-59
Personal Space Modeling for Human-Computer Interaction....Pages 60-72
Technology-Enhanced Role-Play for Intercultural Learning Contexts....Pages 73-84
MusicCommentator: Generating Comments Synchronized with Musical Audio Signals by a Joint Probabilistic Model of Acoustic and Textual Features....Pages 85-97
MiniDiver: A Novel Mobile Media Playback Interface for Rich Video Content on an iPhone TM ....Pages 98-109
Children’s Choice of Games: The Influence of Prosocial Tendency and Education-Level....Pages 110-119
Player Experience Evaluation: An Approach Based on the Personal Construct Theory....Pages 120-131
A Plot-Manipulation Algebra to Support Digital Storytelling....Pages 132-144
Distributed Episode Control System for Interactive Narrative Entertainment....Pages 145-156
Virtual Noctiluca: Interaction between Light and Water Using Real-Time Fluid Simulation and 3D Motion Measurement....Pages 157-166
Sound and Movement Visualization in the AR-Jazz Scenario....Pages 167-172
Experimenting with Sound Immersion in an Arts and Crafts Museum....Pages 173-178
BayesianBand: Jam Session System Based on Mutual Prediction by User and System....Pages 179-184
v.morish’09: A Morphing-Based Singing Design Interface for Vocal Melodies....Pages 185-190
New Hitch Haiku: An Interactive Renku Poem Composition Supporting Tool Applied for Sightseeing Navigation System....Pages 191-196
Using Persuasive Technologies for Energy Consumption Management: A South African Case Study....Pages 197-203
Designing Interactive Blimps as Puppets....Pages 204-209
Requirements for Supporting Individual Human Creativity in the Design Domain....Pages 210-215
Sonic Gestures Applied to a Percussive Dialogue in TanGram Using Wii Remotes....Pages 216-221
TNT: Touch ‘n’ Tangibles on LC-Displays....Pages 222-227
Entertainment Game to Support Interaction between Teachers and Students....Pages 228-233
Multi-layer Based Authoring Tool for Digilog Book....Pages 234-239
Community Created Narrations as Mobile Entertainment....Pages 240-245
Hardcore Classification: Identifying Play Styles in Social Games Using Network Analysis....Pages 246-251
Player Feedback Evaluation: Indicating Mass Public Potential for Pervasive Games....Pages 252-257
A Real-Time Video Illustration Using CUDA....Pages 258-263
A Distributed Render Farm System for Animation Production....Pages 264-269
Extending the Strada Framework to Design an AI for ORTS....Pages 270-275
Services in Game Worlds: A Semantic Approach to Improve Object Interaction....Pages 276-281
Glasses-Free 3D Image Viewer by Handmade DIY Craft....Pages 282-283
Monocular 3D Vision Using Real-Time Generated Scene with Depth of Field Effect....Pages 284-285
RFID Painting Demonstration....Pages 286-287
Development and Evaluation of a Digital Vegetation Interaction Game for Children....Pages 288-289
4-Views Display System for Collaborative Tasks on Round Table....Pages 290-291
Invisible Two-Dimensional Code Display for Additional Information....Pages 292-294
MobiSpell: Educational Mobile Game Design and Development for Teaching Spelling to Young Children....Pages 295-296
Live Demonstration of the Pervasive Game “GPS Joker”....Pages 297-297
Rapid Interactive Installation Development Using Robust Computer Vision and Image-Based Rendering....Pages 298-299
Reinforcement Learning for Blackjack....Pages 300-301
“Plug: Secrets of the Museum”: A Pervasive Game Taking Place in a Museum....Pages 302-303
In-Game Peer Performance Assessment Role That Fosters Metacognitive Agility and Reflection....Pages 304-306
Edutainment Games for Mobile Multimedia Museum Guidance Systems: A Classification Approach....Pages 307-308
Orpheus: Automatic Composition System Considering Prosody of Japanese Lyrics....Pages 309-310
A Handy Laser Show System for Open Space Entertainment....Pages 311-312
Sketch-It-Up! Demo....Pages 313-314
Automatic Chat Generation of Emotional Entertainment Characters Using News Information....Pages 315-318
Incremental Learning Algorithm for Online Action Game System....Pages 319-322
Task-Based Second Language Learning Game System....Pages 323-324
Designing a Game Controller for Novice HALO3 Players....Pages 325-326
AZ66: How Can We Play with Emotions?....Pages 327-328
 WHO AM I? : A Art Ludic Installation in Virtual Reality....Pages 329-330
Affective Interaction: Challenges at the Ubiquitous Computing Times....Pages 331-332
You Are Here....Pages 333-333
Game Experience May Vary: Understanding Play....Pages 334-334
The New Pact: How Online Worlds Forge a New Form of Alliance between Players and Designers....Pages 335-335
The International Game Developer Association (IGDA) Education Special Interest Group (EdSIG)....Pages 336-336
Story of a Video Game Workshop: \"Ico\", an Interactive Fairy Tale for Children Less Interaction....Pages 337-337
Japan’s Arcade Games and Their Technology....Pages 338-338
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