We present a user study that begins to explore aspects of players experience in first person games that use 3D gestures for interaction. Our study uses Wizard of Wii, a video game prototype that has players perform a set of 25 distinct gestures over the course of four different game quests using

such as Ingress, a game created by Google Inc. The game of this thesis motivates the players to meet in the real world and move in groups to certain points of interest like historic mon-uments. The spatial locality of players, which comes up when players move in groups, makes the game interesting for the research

are derived from a real gaming session with 16 players. We implemented the evaluation platform including the prototype game Planet PI4. A novel metric is used to measure the similarity between real and synthetic traces with respect to neighborhood characteristics. In our experiments, we compare real trace

and enhancing motivational outcomes. Given the disparity of claims, a more sophisticated understanding of research in the field may be helpful. Several issues require elucidation. The first issue concerns the purpose of the educational game being used. Prensky (2001, 145) defines game-based learning

Jani Christou was a major Greek composer, whose unusual, yet promising career was brought to an end after his untimely death in 1970 at the age of 44. His challenging and speculative output has intrigued generation of young music scholars; however, J. Christo-u’s work remains imperfectly and only patchily known and understood, especially outside Greece. This is partly because of the interdisciplinary nature of his late works which redu-ces the possibility of potential researchers who will academically establish J. Christou’s distinguished output. The aim of the present paper is to present and analyse parts of Strych-nine Lady, a work composed in 1967 in order to propose research directions in an effort to conÞ rm J. Christou’s posthumous reputation. Key words: Experimental music theatre, avant garde music, contemporary music, 20th century music, Greek avant garde composer

Prüfungsbehörde vorgelegen. Darmstadt, den 17. Mai 2011 (Marcel Lucas) The popularity of Networked Virtual Environments (NVE) increased remarkably in recent years where a plethora of players participate concurrently. Traditional approaches applying the Client/Server pattern swiftly reach their limit in terms

The motives underlying involvement in sport appear to influence how a person will play the game. However, how athletes play the game may also have an impact on their motives for participating in sports. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between self-determined motivation

up the student's recommendation (either allowing the doctor to continue with his experiments or stopping him because they are considered unethical). In the role of persuasive reporter, players navigate around the 3D world, interacting with game-based characters and collecting quotes either

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