Creating, Authoring and Owning the Shared

Creating social, physical, and authoring games

Computer games have become increasingly cooperative social activities that are often being played with several collocated gamers, frequently in front of spectators who react and participate in the gameplay experience. Physical controllers are enriching the gaming interface by allowing players to use their bodies to control the game. We highlight another gameplay theme: in-game authorship of con...

Creating Shared Value

On Creating Metadata with Authoring Tools

The paper addresses issues of knowledge markup with authoring tools in which users construct representations of their knowledge. It attempts to contribute to the problem by suggesting a methodology to author new documents in a way that they contain markup directly. The methodology is illustrated with a case study, knowledge markup with an AutoPat tool. AutoPat is an application for authoring te...

Creating and Publishing Courseware Independent of the Authoring System

The effort for creating content for e-learning applications is high. For authors it is more comfortable to keep their well known authoring system they are familiar with. In this environment they could also reuse existing content. By using modern web standards for presentation and an XML-based courseware format we meet future requirements and are platform independent. We propose a tool chain bas...

Creating Behavior Authoring Environment for Everyday Users

The design of interactive experiences is increasingly important in our society. Examples include interactive media, computer games, and interactive portals. There is increasing interest in modes of interaction with virtual characters, as they represent a natural way for humans to interact. Creating such characters is a complex task, requiring both creative skills (to design personalities, emoti...