EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies

Issue 14, 2018

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Matei Mancas and Manik Sharma

Articles
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The Design of Spatial Sequence Based on the User Experience and the Virtual Reality in Interactive Environments
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ct 18(14): e1

Author:
Jing Zhao

Abstract:
The paper explores the design of spatial sequence on the basis of the user experience and the virtual reality technology in interaction environments. First, for people’s physiological and psychological feelings in the process of experiencing the space, the paper analyses the thought about five sens…The paper explores the design of spatial sequence on the basis of the user experience and the virtual reality technology in interaction environments. First, for people’s physiological and psychological feelings in the process of experiencing the space, the paper analyses the thought about five senses and the abstract thought from the thought field. Then it analyses the balance of the psychological field and physical field, and emotional experience. After that, the paper puts forward how to
control spatial sequence from three points: the experience design of perception, the experience design of touring route and the experience design of speed. Finally, the paper presents a new method for designing spatial sequence. The research results could be widely used in environmental design, game design, animation design, film and television, and other design and innovation fields.
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Towards a new software quality model for evaluation the quality of gamified systems
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ct 18(14): e2

Authors:
Omaz Azouz, Youssef Lefdaoui

Abstract:
Due to the emergence of the Gamification concept in various domains, this article studies how to improve the quality of gamified systems with the software engineering discipline. Recent studies have shown a significant gap between design frameworks and gamified products, reflected in a lack of cons…Due to the emergence of the Gamification concept in various domains, this article studies how to improve the quality of gamified systems with the software engineering discipline. Recent studies have shown a significant gap between design frameworks and gamified products, reflected in a lack of consistency, integrity, measurement and a comprehensive process that covers the different phases to achieve a quality
gamified product. For this purpose, a specific quality model software for evaluation is required. Our contribution consists of making an analytical and qualitative study of the existing Gamification frameworks and platforms, with the aim of proposing a model for quality evaluation of the gamified applications. This proposal is based on the patterns and attributes determined during the conducted bibliographic study and comparative studies, with an attempt
to integrate the ISO 25010 quality model.
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Exploring Deep Recurrent Q-Learning for Navigation in a 3D Environment
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ct 18(14): e3

Authors:
Rasmus Kongsmar Brejl, Henrik Purwins, Henrik Schoenau-Fog

Abstract:
Learning to navigate in 3D environments from raw sensory input is an important step towards bridging the gap between human players and artificial intelligence in digital games. Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning have seen success in teaching agents to play Atari 2600 games from raw pixe…Learning to navigate in 3D environments from raw sensory input is an important step towards bridging the gap between human players and artificial intelligence in digital games. Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning have seen success in teaching agents to play Atari 2600 games from raw pixel information where the environment is always fully observable by the agent. This is not true for first-person 3D navigation tasks. Instead, the agent is limited by its field of view which limits its ability to make optimal decisions in the environment. This paper explores using a Deep Recurrent Q-Network implementation with a long short-term memory layer for dealing with such tasks by allowing an agent to process recent frames and gain a memory of the environment. An agent was trained in a 3D first-person labyrinth-like environment for 2 million frames. Informal observations indicate that the trained agent navigated in the right direction but was unable to
find the target of the environment.
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Virtual Communication Training for the Law Enforcement Domain
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ct 18(14): e4

Authors:
Charlotte Gerritsen, Tibor Bosse

Abstract:
Serious games are increasingly being used for training of social skills. The main idea is to create a virtual environment in which a trainee can interact with graphically embodied virtual characters. By designing scenarios in such way that the character’s behaviour provides direct feedback on the c…Serious games are increasingly being used for training of social skills. The main idea is to create a virtual environment in which a trainee can interact with graphically embodied virtual characters. By designing scenarios in such way that the character’s behaviour provides direct feedback on the correctness of the trainee’s choices, an interactive learning experience is
created. This paper explores the potential of this approach in the domain of law enforcement. A prototype has been developed of a serious game that enables police academy students to train their communicative skills. A pilot study with 41 students has been conducted. The results show that this is a promising instrument for education in this domain, but also point out several suggestions for improvement.
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Learnings from an Iterative Design Process for Technology-Mediated Audience Participation (TMAP) using Smartphones
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ct 18(14): e5

Authors:
Fares Kayali, Oliver Hodl, Christoph Bartmann, Ulrich Kuhn, Thomas Wagensommerer, Ruth Mateus-Berr

Abstract:
We discuss a setup for technology-mediated audience participation (TMAP)in live music using smartphones and high-frequency sound IDs in a playful setting. The audience needs to install a smartphone app. Using high-frequency sound IDs music samples and colors can be triggered on the audience’s smart…We discuss a setup for technology-mediated audience participation (TMAP)in live music using smartphones and high-frequency sound IDs in a playful setting. The audience needs to install a smartphone app. Using high-frequency sound IDs music samples and colors can be triggered on the audience’s smartphones without the need to have an internet connection.
The resulting soundscape is determined by the samples and parameters selected by the artist as well as by the location audience members choose in the performance space. We present the technical basis and iterative explorative design process of such a system for TMAP. The learnings from the perspective of musicians were technical requirements such as low
latency, reliability, as well as increasing the number of possible sound samples and sound quality and we further present learnings on creating systems for TMAP from technical and creative perspectives.
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Scope

ArtsIT and DLI 4: Given the accelerated changes and deeply interconnected activities of the times we are living in, creativity is a key factor of disruptive future developments. Creative and entertainment industries nowadays represent more than 3% of the GDP in Europe and they range from creative content providers (TV & radio, fashion, music) through creative experience providers (movies and music experience) to creative services providers (advertising, design, architecture).

Creative services, contents and experiences present knowledge requirements that are defined increasingly beyond a single discipline and appear to lie in a sound engagement among the creative practitioner (artist/designer/composer/entertainer), the engineer and the scientist. Digital arts, creative industries, and (tele)communication + (social) signal processing speak the language of convergence rather than autonomy. Their interaction calls for special attention now more than ever.

Topics

The journal is not limited to only specific aspects of creative technologies but also open to considering the high-level and innovative contributions from a wide range of subfields, especially articles of interdisciplinary nature.

Some of the journal topics are:

Creative Industries - the pape…

Some of the journal topics are:

Creative Industries - the paper can describe a whole industrial project or framework integrating creative technologies for domains such as:

Creative content providers: TV & radio (broadcast, linked media), fashion (RFID and sensors, energy recycling), music & movies, books (digitization, sonification), museums (creative/artistic installations for tourism or cultural heritage) and media archives, etc.
Creative services providers: Advertising (user-centered web and ads optimization), design (communication devices for creative environments), architecture (places that adapt to people, creativity from domotics), new media and transmedia, etc.
Creative experience providers: Movies and music experience, game-based installations and playable media (participative creation, DJs and VJs creative tools), interactive social and urban spaces, etc.

Scientific topics - the paper can focus on scientific tools for creative industries on topics such as:

Creative content management: Multimedia data mining and innovative browsing, data 2D/3D visualization, digitization and storage, cultural heritage, etc.
Creative interactions: Social signal processing, verbal and nonverbal, explicit or implicit interactions, interacting robots, sensors and MoCap, human-computer interaction, user interface design, serious game etc.
Creative experiences: Affective content analysis and synthesis, immersive technologies, special effects, augmented reality, expressivity and emotion detection and processing, user experiences, etc.

Additional materials such as videos of installations and setups, public/users reactions and comments, or demo links are welcome.

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Editor-in-Chief
Matthias Wölfel, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Editorial Board
Albert Ali Salah, Bogazici University, Turkey
Anthony Brooks, SensoramaLab, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Antonio Camurri…

Editor-in-Chief
Matthias Wölfel, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Editorial Board
Albert Ali Salah, Bogazici University, Turkey
Anthony Brooks, SensoramaLab, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Antonio Camurri, DIST-University of Genova, Italy
Antonio Camurri, University of Genoa, Italy
Barış Atiker, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Türkiye
Christophe d'Alessandro, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Christophe Hurter, ENAC, French Civil Aviation University, Toulouse, France
Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Eva Irene, Aalborg University, Denmark
Fabrizio Lamberti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa, Italy
Insook Choi, Columbia College Chicago, USA
Jesus Ibanez, Escola Municipal d'Art i Disseny (EMAiD), Spain
Jonathan Duckworth, RMIT University, Australia
Jorge C. S. Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Jun Hu, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Lau Bee Theng, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Malaysia
Mel Krokos, University of Portsmouth, UK
Michail Kalogiannakis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Milton Luiz Horn Vieira, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Mikkel Kirkedahl Lysholm Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Pedro Campos, ITI/Larsys, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal
Pieter Jan Maes, McGill University, Canada
Rainer Malaka, University of Bremen, Germany
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, University of Suceava, Romania
Robin Bargar, Columbia College Chicago, USA
Sudarshan Khanna, National Institute of Design, India
Surabhi Khanna, National Institute of Design Haryana, India
Thierry Dutoit, University of Mons, Belgium
Tiago Cardoso, University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal
Tracy Harwood, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Vincent Courboulay, University of La Rochelle, France
Valentina Nisi, University of Madeira, Portugal
Yves Rybarczyk, University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal
Mohd Shahrizal Sunar, Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia
Thomas Bjørner, Aalborg University, Denmark

Journal Blurb

Visit the new journal website to submit and consult our contents: https://publications.eai.eu/index.php/ct/index

Publisher: EAI
ISSN: 2409-9708
Volume: 5

Published: 2018-01-16

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The Design of Spatial Sequence Based on the User Experience and the Virtual Reality in Interactive Environments

Towards a new software quality model for evaluation the quality of gamified systems

Exploring Deep Recurrent Q-Learning for Navigation in a 3D Environment

Virtual Communication Training for the Law Enforcement Domain

Learnings from an Iterative Design Process for Technology-Mediated Audience Participation (TMAP) using Smartphones

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