Entertainment Computing: Technologies and Application

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Under the Influence: Using Natural Language in Interactive Storytelling....Pages 3-11
Interactivity and Non-Linearity: What do They Really Mean?....Pages 13-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Multi-Goal Path-Finding for Autonomous Agents in Virtual Worlds....Pages 23-30
Multiplayer Game Cheating Prevention with Pipelined Lockstep Protocol....Pages 31-39
Complex Games and Palm Computers....Pages 41-48
Facilitating Learning in a Real Time Strategy Computer Game....Pages 49-56
A Toolkit for Developing Programs of Card Games Played on the Internet....Pages 57-64
A Metric for Entertainment of Boardgames: Its Implication for Evolution of Chess Variants....Pages 65-72
Threat Stacks to Guide Pruning and Search Extensions in Shogi....Pages 73-80
The Evolution of Strong Othello Programs....Pages 81-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Digital Storytelling with DINAH: Dynamic, Interactive, Narrative Authoring Heuristic....Pages 91-99
Real-Time Character Animation Using Puppet Metaphor....Pages 101-108
Fly through View Video Generation of Soccer Scene....Pages 109-116
Prototyping Mobile Game Applications....Pages 117-124
A Method for Real-Time Rendering of Water Droplets Taking into Account Interactive Depth of Field Effects....Pages 125-132
Kirifuki: Inhaling and Exhaling Interaction with Visual Objects....Pages 133-140
Virtual Horseback Archery....Pages 141-148
Creating Ubiquitous Interactive Games Using Everywhere Displays Projectors....Pages 149-156
Face Analysis and Synthesis for Interactive Entertainment....Pages 157-164
Human Body Tracking for Digital Actors....Pages 165-172
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Computer Vision Based Recognition of Interactions between Human Body and Object....Pages 173-180
Real-Time Manipulation of Motion-Capture Data with Pattern Generator....Pages 181-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Development of Autonomous Blimp Robot with Intelligent Control....Pages 191-198
LEGO Mindstorms Cheerleading Robots....Pages 199-206
Electronically Enhanced Board Games by Integrating Physical and Virtual Spaces....Pages 207-214
A Distributed Control System and Scripting Language for “Interactivity” in Live Performance....Pages 215-222
Recognition of Human Hand Gesture from a Monocular Image Sequence for Human-Machine Communication System....Pages 223-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Development of MIDI Encoder “Auto-F” for Creating MIDI Controllable General Audio Contents....Pages 233-240
“Improvisession-II”: A Performing/Composing System for Improvisational Sessions with Networks....Pages 241-248
An Accommodating Piano Which Augments Intention of Inexperienced Players....Pages 249-256
Two-Step Input Method for Supporting Construction of MIDI Sequence Data....Pages 257-264
A Melody-Retrieval System on Parallelized Computers....Pages 265-272
Soundcompass TM ....Pages 273-280
Statistical Phrase Extraction and Indexing for Music Retrieval....Pages 281-288
A Portable Electric Bass Using Two PDAS....Pages 289-296
Music Composition by Onomatopoeia....Pages 297-304
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
The Technoludic Film:Images of Video Games in Movies (1973–2001)....Pages 307-312
Determinantes for Collaboration in Networked Multi-User Games....Pages 313-321
Politics in Motion....Pages 323-330
Awareness Communications by Entertaining Toy Doll Agents....Pages 331-338
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
CGA Synthesizer Interpolating and Extrapolating Motion Data....Pages 339-346
Leaving Fantasy behind in Videogames....Pages 347-354
Responses in Light, Sound and Scent....Pages 355-362
The New Role of Gaming....Pages 363-369
The Inherent Appeal of Physically Controlled Peripherals....Pages 371-378
Front Matter....Pages 379-379
A New Economical Fluorescent Lamp Information Transmission System for Indoor Tracking with Applications for Indoor Games....Pages 381-388
Skill Training System of Manual Arc Welding....Pages 389-396
Interaction for Entertainment Contents Based on Direct Manipulation with Bare Hands....Pages 397-404
Authoring Mixed Reality — A Component and Framework-Based Approach....Pages 405-413
Playing Rubik’s Cube in Mixed Reality....Pages 415-422
Inside the Score....Pages 423-429
Magic Music Desk: A Multi-Modal Embodied Interactive Desk....Pages 431-438
Senses of Spaces through Transfiction....Pages 439-446
“Penguin Hockey”....Pages 447-454
Usability and Playability Issues for Arquake....Pages 455-462
Touch Space: An Embodied Computing Mixed Reality Game Space....Pages 463-470
Using Augmented Reality for Entertainment....Pages 471-477
Rapid Prototyping of Mixed Reality Applications That Entertain and Inform....Pages 479-486
An Authoring Toolkit for Mixed Reality Experiences....Pages 487-494
A Distributed MR Transporter for Networked Collaboration....Pages 495-502
Front Matter....Pages 379-379
3D Live Humans in Mixed Reality Entertainment....Pages 503-510
Immersive Environment Technologies for Planetary Exploration with Applications for Mixed Reality....Pages 511-518
Content Management in Mixed Reality Systems....Pages 519-526
Mixed Reality in Traffic Scenes....Pages 527-534