The concept of Interactive Pattern Stories is introduced as a way to support software design education. An example interactive pattern story is presented, along with benefits, liabilities, and applicability of the approach. Key benefits include enabling readers to explore different choices to design problems and to experience positive and negative consequences of design choices, and the engagin...

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of Colyseus, a distributed architecture for interactive multiplayer games. Colyseus distributes dynamic game-play state and computation while adhering to tight latency constraints and maintaining scalable communication costs. Two key architectural decisions form the basis of our design: first, a single copy consistency model for gam...

In this paper we describe a modular system architecture for distributed parse annotation using interactive correction. This involves interactively adding constraints to an existing parse until the returned parse is correct. Using a mixed initiative approach, human annotators interact live with distributed ccg parser servers through an annotation gui. The examples presented to each annotator are...

Digital Media Technologies offer enhanced multimedia signal broadcasting and description of the signal on content. Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is a media standard with extended multimedia capabilities, offering novel services to users worldwide. Each digital broadcasting standard though, cannot be separately viewed from the development of Internet radio broadcasting. In this paper we intro...

Many universities worldwide have developed a variety of web-based e-learning environments, hoping to benefit from this new and fast spreading IT (Harasim, 2000). The main intention of this paper is to describe an e-learning model that would act as a prudent teacher to teach and test the aptitude of e-learners based on available knowledgebase. Here, we provide an overall view of the proposed mod...

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We approach creating an interactive drama from the viewpoint that having a human author involved in the creation of the drama is a valuable component. Given that there is this author, we suddenly find opposing forces inherent to the system: the amount of interaction we desire to give the User of the system vs. the amount of dramatic control we wish to give the Writer. In this paper, we propose ...

We propose a new approach for teaching a humanoid-robot a task online without pre-set data provided in advance. In our approach, human acts as a collaborator and also as a teacher. The proposed approach enables the humanoid-robot to learn a task through multi-component interactive architecture. The components are designed with the respect to human methodology for learning a task through empiric...