We present a study that investigates the heretofore unexplored relationship between a
player's sense of her narrative role in an interactive narrative role-playing game and the …

The color red has been shown to hinder performance, motivation, and affect in a variety of
contexts involving cognitively demanding tasks. Teams wearing red have been shown to …

Social loafing is a phenomenon in which members of a group reduce individual motivation
and effort. We explored the difference between social loafing perceived by the loafer …

This paper presents work toward better understanding the roles that avatars can play in
supporting learning in educational games. Specifically, the paper presents results of …

We present a pilot study of four teacher avatars for an educational virtual field trip. The
avatars consist of a depth-video-based mesh of a real person, a game-style human model, a …

This paper focuses on multi-user virtual environments for collaborative tasks, that offer not all
participants the same level of immersion and control over the virtual environment (VE). We …

Abstract Artificial General Intelligence has traditionally used games as a testbed to develop
domain-agnostic game playing techniques. Yet games are about more than winning. This …

Research has indicated that role models have the potential to boost academic performance.
In this paper, we describe an experiment exploring role models as game avatars in an …

I have explored the use of avatars differing in the level of anthropomorphism when making
the first contact with the person of interest in a crisis negotiation. An online experiment has …

Virtual gaming environments mediate interaction between players within a game and/or
between a player and the game itself to make gameplay more enjoyable. Although game …