Rapid development of first person serious games using the APEX platform

Gomes, Teresa; Abade, Tiago; Campos, José Creissac; Harrison, Michael D.; Silva, José Luís

doi:10.1145/2554850.2554969

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“…Some are single player with competitive modes with real time capabilities [14], while others focus in teaching a particular domain by following a serious game approach [15]. These projects are great at engaging and motivating users.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Amê

Cruz

Preuss

Quadros

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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Computer Science students are usually enthusiastic about learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to the possibility of developing computer games that incorporate AI behaviors. Under this scenario, Search Algorithms (SA) are a fundamental subject of AI for a broad variety of games. Implementing deterministic games, varying from tic-tac-toe to chess games, are commonly approaches used to teach AI. Considering the perspective of game playing, however, stochastic games are usually more fun to play, and are not much explored during AI learning process. Other approaches in AI learning include developing searching algorithms to compete against each other. These approaches are relevant and engaging, but they lack an environment that features both algorithm design and benchmarking capabilities. To address this issue, we present Amê -an environment to support the learning process and analysis of adversarial search algorithms using a stochastic card game. We have conducted a pilot experiment with Computer Science students that developed different adversarial search algorithms for Hanafuda (a traditional Japanese card game).

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Amê

Cruz

Preuss

Quadros

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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“…A more technical description of how APEX was used to build the game is provided in [14]. Here the focus of the discussion is on how the game was derived from the EPA checklist.…”

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A Virtual Environment based Serious Game to Support Health Education

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Abade²,

Campos³

et al. 2014

ICST Trans Amb Sys

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APEX was developed as a framework for ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) prototyping through virtual environments. In this paper the framework is used as a platform for developing a serious game designed to instruct and to inform. The paper describes the Asthma game, a game aimed at raising awareness among children of asthma triggers in the home. It is designed to stimulate a healthier life-style for those with asthma and respiratory problems. The game was developed as the gamification of a checklist for the home environment of asthma patients.

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“…It provides a framework that combines modeling of the control logic of the devices in a proposed environment with a virtual reality (VR) simulation of the target environment. The platform has also been used as the basis for serious games development [7,8].…”

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Supporting the Design of an Ambient Assisted Living System Using Virtual Reality Prototypes

Campos

Abade

Silva

et al. 2015

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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APEX, a framework for prototyping ubiquitous environments, is used to design an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) system to enhance a care home for older people. The environment allows participants in the design process to experience the proposed design and enables developers to explore the design by rapidly developing alternatives. APEX provided the means to explore alternative designs through a virtual environment. It provides a mediating representation (a boundary object) allowing users to be involved in the design process. A group of residents in a city-based care home were involved in the design. The paper describes the design process and lessons learnt for the design of AAL systems.

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Rapid development of first person serious games using the APEX platform

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