The odyssey of a group of "refugees" from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.
Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play communities have appeared, most notably within online games and virtual worlds. Players in these networked worlds sometimes develop a sense of community that transcends the game itself.
In Communities of Play, game researcher and designer Celia Pearce explores emergent fan cultures in networked digital worlds -- actions by players that do not coincide with the intentions of the game's designers. Pearce looks in particular at the Uru Diaspora -- a group of players whose game, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, closed. These players (primarily baby boomers) immigrated into other worlds, self-identifying as "refugees"; relocated in There.com, they created a hybrid culture integrating aspects of their old world. Ostracized at first, they became community leaders. Pearce analyzes the properties of virtual worlds and looks at the ways design affects emergent behavior. She discusses the methodologies for studying online games, including a personal account of the sometimes messy process of ethnography. Pearce considers the "play turn" in culture and the advent of a participatory global playground enabled by networked digital games every bit as communal as the global village Marshall McLuhan saw united by television. Countering the ludological definition of play as unproductive and pointing to the long history of pre-digital play practices, Pearce argues that play can be a prelude to creativity.
Автор: Themis Panayiotopoulos; Jonathan Gratch; Ruth Ayle Название: Intelligent Virtual Agents ISBN: 3540287388 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540287384 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2005. This book contains papers organized in topical sections on IVAs and education, conversational agents/NLP, IVA architectures, cognition, reasoning and behaviour, nonverbal communication, social intelligence, emotions/affect/personality, and more.
Описание: Virtual and Augmented Reality have existed for a long time but were stuck to the research world or to some large manufacturing companies. With the appearance of low-cost devices, it is expected a number of new applications, including for the general audience.
Автор: Lackey Название: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality ISBN: 3319399063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319399065 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12298.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on HCI in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, which took place in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016. HCII 2016 received a total of 4354 submissions, of which 1287 papers were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 70 papers presented in this volume are organized in topical sections named: Usability, User Experience and Design in VAMR, Perception, Cognition, Psychology and Behaviour in VAMR, Multimodal Interaction in VAMR, Novel Devices and Technologies in VAMR, VAMR Applications in Aviation, Space and the Military, Medicine, Health and Well-Being Applications of VAMR, VAMR in Industry, Design and Engineering, Novel Virtual Environments.
Название: Ethnography and virtual worlds ISBN: 0691149518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691149516 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Suitable for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods, this title provides practical and detailed techniques for ethnographic research customized to reflect the specific issues of online virtual worlds, both game and nongame.
Автор: Guido Brunnett; Sabine Coquillart; Robert van Lier Название: Virtual Realities ISBN: 3319170422 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319170428 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6708.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: VR Environments.- Live Will Never Be the Same! How Broadcasting Might Influence the Acceptance and Widespread Usage of Augumented Reality.- Four Metamorphosis States in a Distributed Virtual (TV) Studio: Human, Cyborg, Avatar, and Bot - Markerless Tracking and Feedback for Realtime Animation Control.- VELOS - A VR Environment for Ship Applications: Current Status and Planned Extensions.- Underwater Mixed Environments.- Interaction and User Experience A Critical Analysis of Human-Subject Experiments in Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces.- Mobile Devices for Virtual Reality Interaction. A Survey of Techniques and Metaphors.- Hand Pose Recognition - Overview and Current Research.- Virtual Humans.- Applications of Avatar Mediated Interaction to Teaching, Training, Job Skills and Wellness.- VR-Assisted Physical Rehabilitation: Adapting to the Needs of Therapists and Patients.- Hierarchical Method for Segmentation by Classification of Motion Capture Data.- Content Creation and Authoring Challenges for Virtual Environments: From User Interfaces to Autonomous Virtual Characters.- Tele-Existence.- Technical Report: Exploring Human Surrogate Characteristics.- Telexistence: Past, Present, and Future.
Автор: Thomas Rist; Ruth Aylett; Daniel Ballin; Jeff Rick Название: Intelligent Virtual Agents ISBN: 3540200037 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540200031 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10480.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Alessandro Mansutti; Mario Covarrubias Rodriguez; Название: Tactile Display for Virtual 3D Shape Rendering ISBN: 3319489852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319489858 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 7685.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book describes a novel system for the simultaneous visual and tactile rendering of product shapes which allows designers to simultaneously touch and see new product shapes during the conceptual phase of product development.
Описание: Virtual, Augmented Reality and Serious Games for Healthcare 1
Автор: Luis M. Camarinha-Matos; Hamideh Afsarmanesh Название: Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises ISBN: 0792386396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792386391 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 33401.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Addresses the design and development of infrastructures for industrial Virtual Enterprises (VEs). This book describes key areas such as: reference architectures; safe communications; distributed information management; coordination and workflow; distributed business processes management; and, standards for electronic data interchange.
Автор: Victor M.R. Penichet; Antonio Pe?alver; Jos? A. Ga Название: New Trends in Interaction, Virtual Reality and Modeling ISBN: 1447172396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447172390 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents solutions to a number of Human-Computer Interaction issues in virtual and augmented reality. It collects the best research papers from Interaccion 2012 and MexIHC 2012.
Автор: Pant Название: Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi ISBN: 1484221664 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781484221662 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3912.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Build a voice-controlled virtual assistant using speech-to-text engines, text-to-speech engines, and conversation modules. This book shows you how to program the virtual assistant to gather data from the internet (weather data, data from Wikipedia, data mining); play music; and take notes. Each chapter covers building a mini project/module to make the virtual assistant better. You'll develop the software on Linux or OS X before transferring it to your Raspberry Pi, ready for deploying in your own home-automation or Internet of Things applications.Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi walks you through various STTs and TTSs and the implementation of these components with the help of Python. After that you will start implementing logic for handling user queries and commands, so that the user can have conversations with Melissa. You will then work to improve logic handling to detect what the user wants Melissa to do. You will also work on building some useful applications/modules for Melissa, which will allow you to gain interesting information from Melissa such as the time, weather information, and data from Wikipedia.You will develop a music playing application as well as a note taking application for Melissa, laying the foundations for how Melissa can be further extended. Finally, you will learn how to deploy this software to your Raspberry Pi and how you can further scale Melissa to make her more intelligent, interactive and how you can use her in other projects such as home automation as well.What You'll LearnDesign the workflow and discover the concepts of building a voice controlled assistantDevelop modules for having conversations with the assistantEnable the assistant to retrieve information from the internetBuild utilities like a music player and a note taking application for the virtual assistantIntegrate this software with a Raspberry Pi Who This Book Is ForThis book is for anyone who has built a home automation project with Raspberry Pi and now want to enhance it by making it voice-controlled. The book would also interest students from computer science or related disciplines.
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