Nonlexical “Moans”: Response Cries in Board Game Interactions

AR Pueblo Board Game

This paper considers a new tangible interface for vision-based Augmented Reality (AR) systems. Tangible AR interfaces provide users seamless interaction with virtual objects in AR systems but with the restriction of user’s motions. A new tangible AR interface is designed to overcome this limitation. Two hexahedral objects are attached together to create the new tangible AR interface. The shape ...

Modern Board Game Collections

Introduction Modern board games are currently experiencing a golden age. There has been a huge increase in the number of games being produced, both in the United States and abroad. These games run the gamut from relatively simple, lightly themed games (such as Ticket to Ride, a set collection game about trains) to the surprisingly complex and in depth ones (such as Die Macher, a four-hour game ...

Graduate school: the board game

Socially Present Board Game Opponents

The real challenge of creating believable and enjoyable board game arti cial opponents lies no longer in analysing millions of moves per minute. Instead, it lies in creating opponents that are socially aware of their surroundings and that can interact socially with other players. In traditional board games, where face-to-face interactions, social actions and strategic reasoning are important co...

MiBoard: Multiplayer Interactive Board Game

Serious games have recently emerged as an avenue for curriculum delivery. Serious games incorporate motivation and entertainment while providing pointed curriculum for the user. This paper presents a serious game, called MiBoard, currently being developed from the iSTART Intelligent Tutoring System. MiBoard incorporates a multiplayer interaction that iSTART was previously unable to provide. Thi...