Playing with the Edge

Prosopopeia—Playing on the Edge of Reality

In this paper we discuss the genre of pervasive larp that seamlessly merges game and ordinary life, presenting Prosopopeia Bardo : Där vi föll, which was intended as a proof-of-concept for the genre. In addition to being a street larp staged in the cityscape, Prosopopeia aimed at blurring the border of game and ordinary life by spanning over a long duration of players’ lives and by forcing the...

Blondie24, Playing at the Edge of AI (Book Review)

Computer science has failed abysmally at producing machines which display intelligence. According to Fogel, the last 50 years of effort in artificial intelligence have been on the wrong track, leaving us no closer to the goal than when we started. The wrong track has been the attempt to make the computer imitate our behavior. Scientists striving to build an artificial intelligence load the comp...

Playing with the Edge: Tipping Points and the Role of Tonality

The effect of the angle upper edge in shaped noise barriers with a T-shaped upper edge

Background and Objective: Efforts to improve the effectiveness of noise barriers have been made, including shape, aesthetics, form and gender. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the angle upper edge in shaped noise barriers with a T-shaped upper edge. Materials and Methods: A 2D boundary element method (BEM) was used to predict the insertion loss of the tested ba...

Playing with the Weather

In this paper the contribution of real time weather data to player enjoyment was tested and evaluated. To gauge the contribution of weather to player engagement an adaptronic, multiplayer, location based game, where real time weather data is key to the gameplay, was created. In this game the player assumes the role of a wizard and confronts other players in duels where the current weather plays...