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guidelines Please submit all words in a format that we can use, anything that requires us to do converting delays the final draft and such delays payment to you. Make sure that each page of the printout should have a footer with the author's name, manuscript name, date of draft, page number, and a header with the file name from the diskette. Without a signed release in our files (notarized, or the equivalent for writers from outside the U.S.), we cannot and will not even look at your submission. Any maps, counters or other materials necessary to play-test. If you give us photocopies of published maps as source material, we must redraw it (so don't send them in at the last moment). isca96 Game playing demands efficient methods and has the advantage that the testing and evaluation of different implementations is straightforward, for it requires playing the game. This paper provides a case study of an informed search technique applied for a non-adversarial game (triangular board Peg Game). Approach 1: The first heuristic presented relies on the observation that the pegs have to be clustered together and not spread on the board, for moves are only possible as long as there is an adjacent peg to jump over. John J. Smeets and Gerard Putter, "Some Experience with a Self-Learning Computer Program for Playing Draughts," 1st London Conference on Computer Games 1989. Patrick Henry Winston and Berthold Klaus Paul Horn, "Lisp, 3rd Edition," Addison-Wesley 1993. Thinking_about_Gameplay http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~forbus/c95-gd/lectures/Thinking_about_Gameplay.pdf game, player, campaigns, progress, key features, design, gameplay, Research Tree, AIs, Monitoring. -- How do you make a player's choices interesting? -- How do you ease a player into your world? -- How do you keep them interested as they gain experience? What are some key features of the modeled world? What are some key features of the modeled world? · Right level of abstraction critical to determining how fun the game is The Story: What is it? · Provides structure for player to monitor progress What would have to change to make a persistent world? -- High-level strategic shifts as game conditions change -- Ability to orchestrate long campaigns What does the Research Tree provide? · Progress tracking What is the purpose of relics and wonders? WG1_111 amounts, computers, efficiency, inventories, bare-maximum, alcohol, economy, required data, education, communication. Take preferred state bare-maximum definition of success. State strategy for the process of attaining same; time "goal" for process attainment. Availability to all mankind of means to communicate with anyone wishing to be communicated with at the highest rate of economy and efficiency. Make inventories of all communication networks; project present usage in U.S. to the world to see if it can be done using present methods, etc. Find out what will be needed for everyone to have the bare-maximum. Number of computers in existence in the world. Substitute alcohol made from the organic waste of the world for gasoline in all internal combustion engines thereby eliminating carbon monoxide air pollution and stopping the wanton consumption of Earth's irreplaceable capital energy resource oil. Amounts of oil mined and amounts used for gasoline. YPisan00 character, classification, learning, game, hunt, hunting, fox, programmers, rabbits, knowledge acquisition. We advocate a knowledge acquisition approach to building characters and use modelbased classification techniques as our learning mechanism. We demonstrate our idea using a simple simulated game of predator and prey, examine the types of rules created by the classifier and discuss how to develop adaptable characters. Automated character authoring tools that can produce models that can be easily understood and debugged, possibly in the form of concise sets of rules, can improve the quality of computer characters while reducing development time. We approach the problem of building a character as a knowledge acquisition task and describe a form classification that can be used to automatically generate production rules that can serve as character models. 9899227 parametric test, design, moon, clip, possums, foraging, cats, draw, video, audio. Thirty people were tested in a 1-between design, ten using each version, and the time that it took them to locate the relevant page was recorded. An index of 'caution' can be obtained by counting the number of times a possum looks up and scans the surroundings while it is foraging. The theory also suggests that environmental factors such as a full moon, which makes it easier for cats to hunt, will also increase 'looking-up' behaviour. They have carried out 'unimodal' experiments in which people listen to an audio clip or watch a silent video clip for thirty seconds, and then assess its 'quality' on a seven point rating scale. VIRTUAL http://best.me.berkeley.edu/~aagogino/papers/VIRTUAL.PDF design, students, engineering, disk drives, VDDS, game, courseware, multimedia, design studio, dissection. Studio is an engineering design case study using interactive multimedia courseware for undergraduate engineering and science students. The purpose of this multimedia case is to introduce students to the world of mechatronics and multidisciplinary design in the form of a disk drive. This interactive disk drive case study is ideally complemented by hands-on mechanical dissection of actual disk drives. The Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio (VDDS) uses multimedia tools and a game format to teach students about the design process. The game format of the VDDS is designed to make students think about the choices necessary in design within an entertaining and educational environment. samegame evidence, discovery, spoliation, disclosures, attorneys, parties, preservation, client, protect, requests. Corporations are generating evidence at a breakneck pace. This explosion of electronic documents requires that litigators have a plan for managing discovery, to protect the client's interests and to gain a strategic advantage over their opponents. When litigation becomes imminent, a corporation must protect itself against a potential spoliation accusation. Topics for discussion at the conference may include: preservation of evidence (including whether backup, archival, and "deleted" files will be exchanged), preliminary disclosures as to the parties' computer systems (including numbers, types, and locations of computers, operating systems in use, and backup schedules), document processing and production formats, testifying experts, and anticipated evidentiary disputes. ttt weight, ply-depth, game, placing, player, evaluating, minimax algorithm, Three-Dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe, lists, attack. Three-Demensional Tic-Tac-Toe is much like the traditional game of Tic-Tac-Toe except that it is played on multiple boards of the same size that are stacked on top of each other. A player wins the game (as in the traditional game) by placing his pieces in an unbroken line that stretches from one of the board space to another. The program can handle any ply-depth but will require exponentially more and more time and memory resources as this number increases. Instead of evaluating a board state and assigning a score, it evaluates a heuristic weight for each possible move. Thus, a heuristic weight is assigned to each position on the board based on the relative merit of placing a piece there. dynamic GameInterface, ControlPanel, game, request, user actor, Dynamic Modelling, Nick Lin, Student, Warwick Computer Science, confirmation. A1.1: GameInterface acknowledges and sends request to ControlPanel. A2.1: GameInterface acknowledges and sends request to ControlPanel. A3.1: GameInterface sends a request to ControlPanel. A4.1: GameInterface acknowledges and sends request to ControlPanel. A5.1: GameInterface acknowledges and sends request to ControlPanel. A6.1: GameInterface acknowledges and sends request to ControlPanel. A7.1: GameInterface acknowledges and sends request to ControlPanel. A8.1: GameInterface acknowledges and sends request to ControlPanel. A9.1: GameInterface acknowledges and sends request to ControlPanel. A10.1: GameInterface acknowledges and sends request to ControlPanel. Fredriks http://www.nada.kth.se/hmi/Events/workshop2002/Fredriks.pdf direct manipulation, auditory, blind, collaboration, support, blind computer users, interface, auditory space, game, awareness. Fredrik Winberg, fredrikw@nada.kth.se The use of computers today almost always requires that the user is able to see what is presented on the screen, a requirement that blind computer users are not able to fulfill. Direct manipulation is a fundamental property of graphical user interfaces which makes the interface easier to use by presenting all objects continuously, allowing physical interaction, and giving immediate feedback on the user's actions. The main research questions were whether auditory direct manipulation was possible, if blind computer users could benefit from having auditory direct manipulation, and if this could support collaboration with sighted users. The results from this study pointed out important qualitative aspects, such as using the mouse to focus in the auditory space and articulatory directness. CDCNVol1 cards, memory, Diamond, reward, control, game, inhibitory, ability, picture, age. A recently completed study by Center Director, Dr. Adele Diamond, Anne Churchland, Natasha Kirkham, and Loren Cruess, which was just accepted for publication by the journal Developmental Psychology, looks at how babies learn to reason about simple object relationships. After the baby had retrieved the reward, there was a brief delay, and we then presented the same object paired with a new one. The skill that appears to develop between 4 months to 21 months is the ability to grasp the relationship between stimulus and reward. Certain pictures required pressing the key located on the same side of the button box as the location of the picture on the screen, and certain pictures required pressing the button on the opposite side. The first sorting cards depicting blue trucks and red stars. iida LO-search, player, intentional error, opponent, OM-search, play, Iida, tutoring, game, Computer Science. According to the analysis of grandmaster-like strategies in Shogi [Iida and Uiterwijk 1993], it is important for a teacher, at the beginning stages of teaching, to intentionally lose an occasional game against a novice opponent, or to play less than optimally in order to give the novice some prospects of winning, without this being noticed by the opponent. In this work we consider a loss-oriented search strategy (LO-search for short), by which a player attempts to lose a game, and we show an algorithm for LO-search based on the minimax strategy and OM-search (opponent-model search; see [Iida et al. 1993]). We further describe characteristics of LO-search, including the concept of intentional error. 000717_Diner character development, FreeForm, SensAble Technologies, Diner, Character Development Team, creation, FreeForm system, animation, interface, FreeForm modeling. The new Character Development Team will provide an added service to The Diner's entertainmentfocused clients. Among the most valuable of these tools is the FreeForm system from SensAble Technologies. The FreeForm system is a relatively new technology that was officially released at last year's Siggraph Conference in Los Angeles. It is the first application that allows the user to model inside cyberspace using the sense of touch. The Diner, Inc is a Midwest based animation, design and web development studio that has been creating computer generated animation and designs for over ten years. For more information about The Diner please visit www.dinerinc.com. CMU-CS-02-191 game, humans, National Science Foundation, classifying, play, fun, image Classi cation, Keywords, ect, publication. In this paper we introduce a simple game that is fun to play and has the following unique property: when humans play the game, they help computers determine the contents of images. If played by a large number of people, this game could provide a resource capable of classifying all images on the World Wide Web. This represents a novel form of interaction between humans and computers, a symbiosis in which humans playing the game are entertained and computers running the game obtain answers to problems they can't solve. This material is based upon work partially supported by a National Science Foundation Aladdin Grant. Any opinions, ndings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily re ect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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