Topical Video Search: Analysing Video Concept Annotation through Crowdsourcing Games

Topical Video Search: Analysing Video Concept Annotation through Crowdsourcing Games

Games with a purpose (GWAPs) are increasingly used in audio-visual collections as a mechanism for annotating videos through tagging. One such GWAP is Waisda?, a video labeling game where players tag streaming video and win points by reaching consensus on tags with other players. The open-ended and unconstrained manner of tagging in the fast-paced setting of the game has fundamental impact on th...

Playability: analysing user experience in video games

Playability: analysing user experience in video games José Luis González Sánchez a b , Francisco Luis Gutiérrez Vela a , Francisco Montero Simarro c & Natalia Padilla-Zea a a Software Engineering Department, University of Granada, C/Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda s/n, Granada, E-18071, Spain b Software Engineering Department, University of Lleida, C/Jaume II, 69, Lleida, E-25001, Spain c Soft...

Search in Real-Time Video Games

This chapter arises from the discussions of an experienced international group of researchers interested in the potential for creative application of algorithms for searching finite discrete graphs, which have been highly successful in a wide range of application areas, to address a broad range of problems arising in video games. The chapter first summarises the state of the art in search algor...

Analysing Cultural Heritage and its Representation in Video Games

This paper outlines research towards strengthening our understanding of the representation of cultural artifacts in video games. The approach described outlines steps towards utilising a framework using dimensions of cultural heritage as reference points for games analysis. This framework is then used as a mechanism to analyse two games: Assassin’s Creed I and Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta. T...

Virtual environmental enrichment through video games