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We propose a 2 dimensional information display triggered by the eye movement of the viewer. This display is composed of two units, a rapid frame rate camera and a single LED (Light Emitting Diode) array. The camera captures images around the viewer's ...

In this paper we describe a week long public field trial called Schminky. Based on our findings from the trial we consider the design implications for spontaneous, networked sound-based games. The venue for the trial was a café in a digital media ...

We still have dull but nonautomated work. The work falls workers' motivation down, so their productivity is decreased. In order to keep their motivation high, we propose the method to install the power of entertainment, which makes people relax, fun and ...

Entertainment systems promise to be a significant application for Mixed Reality. Recently, a growing number of Mixed Reality applications have included interaction with virtual actors and storytelling. However, AI-based Interactive Storytelling ...

This paper presents a new framework for arbitrary view synthesis and presentation of sporting events for mixed reality entertainment. In accordance with the viewpoint position of an observer, virtual view image of sporting scene is generated by view ...

"Using Emotional Drives and Interaction to model Intelligent NPC's in Role Playing Games"; Modern video games have very little in the way of producing realistic Non Player Characters (NPCs) behavior based on its emotions. In life there are effects on ...

In the existed studies, interaction system involving force and touch feedback, have been scarely suggested any research. Therefore, we focus on touch and force-feedback activities in interaction with real human. In this paper, we propose the interaction ...

This paper presents a prototype Multi-Audible system. By Multi-Audible, we mean that plural users have a portable device to hear different audio information during the interaction. The proposed system is an interactive art system that sends auditory ...

Personal robots for human entertainment form a new class of computer-based entertainment that is beginning to become commercially and computationally practical. We expect a principal manifestation of their entertainment capabilities will be socially ...

In this paper, we describe a new sensing board system enhanced with audio devices. Our previous board system provides users with common display images using tangible pieces, thus, users collaboratively work with visual and tangible information. On the ...

Currently there is much interest in the development of computer and DVD-based games and activities that supplement or are marketed alongside broadcast television content. Scene-Driver was developed for the purpose of reusing content from an animated ...

We introduce a multi-agent framework to generate reports of players' activities within multi-player computer games so that other players who are currently unable to participate can keep track of the activities of their colleagues. We describe an initial ...

Interactive virtual environments are becoming increasingly popular for their utility in education, virtual training, and entertainment. These applications often rely on a scenario that is revealed to the user as he/she interacts with synthetic objects ...

This paper presents an application, Augmented Reality Chinese Checkers that we created to investigate user interface issues for table top projected augmented reality entertainment applications. A new tangible interaction device, the wireless button ...

This paper proposes an intra-stream synchronization algorithm for haptic media in networked virtual environments where a user manipulates a CG object collaboratively in a 3-D virtual space by using a haptic interface device. The algorithm behaves as the ...

This paper studies media synchronization control between voice and movement of avatars constructed by computer graphics (CG) in networked virtual environments. For the control, we adopt the virtual-time rendering (VTR) media synchronization algorithm, ...

In this paper, we discuss the viability and technical constraints faced when implementing a multiplayer internet game with VRML 2.0.

This paper discusses the design of audio games, a quite new computer game category that originates from games for players with visual impairments as well as from mainstream music games. In the TiM project (Tactile Interactive Multimedia), SITREC ...

The Intelligent Street is a music installation that is able to respond intelligently to the collective requests of users interacting together. The performance it creates is largely influenced by the collective set of text commands from users' mobile ...

In this paper, means of enriching computer entertainment experiences by emphasizing physical and social game elements are discussed. A conceptual framework in which the relations between the virtual, the physical, and the social domains are modelled is ...

ActiveCube is a novel user interface which allows intuitive interaction with computers. ActiveCube allows users to construct and interact with Three Dimensional (3D) environments using physical cubes equipped with input/output devices. Spatial, temporal ...

There are many computer games in the world, but generally game players challenge either the computer, or real players in the case of many person games. In view of the strong connectivity advocated between communication and entertainment in the field of ...

In this paper we propose a novel attempt to develop a spatial tangible user interface (TUI) [1] based on a deformable structure, the so-called HoverMesh. It consists of a stiff cubical, whose upper wall is composed of a deformable mesh of particle ...

The current development trend concerning online games and virtual environments has and continues to yield monolithic solutions, which are responsible for the wide proliferation of system implementations. However, there is much overlap of functionality, ...

The introduction of more powerful, feature rich, portable handsets is enabling more engaging mobile multimedia entertainment. Improvements in wireless technology infrastructure are enabling access to ubiquitous, always-on data networks. We believe that ...

Video Poker in Australia is on the verge of extinction. These machines are being replaced in casinos as it is claimed they generate less money than the traditional slot machines. A brief outline of Video Poker is given and a method of calculating the ...

This paper presents Practice! Yubimoji AIUEO (PYA) to let ordinary elementary school pupils learn basic character expressions (AIUEO) of the Japanese hand characters (Yubimoji). PYA at a Personal Computer has an easy-to-use and look-and-feel visual ...

Natural language is an easy and effective medium to interact with computers by humans and we foresee that it is an effective way to visualize or realize one's imagination by computer. And it makes the complex task of creating 3D scenes or images faster ...

In efforts to attract a wider audience, videogames are beginning to incorporate adaptive gameplay mechanics. Unlike the more traditional videogame, adaptive games can cater the gaming experience to the individual user and not just a particular group of ...

This paper presents our development of a synthetic traffic model for the interactive online computer game Quake3. The goal is a traffic model that can be used by researchers and Internet Service Provider engineers to estimate the potential future impact ...