Computers in Entertainment, Volume 4

Volume 4, Number 1, January 2006

A word from the editor

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  Newton Lee:
  A word from the editor. 1

Interviews

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  Newton Lee:
  Interview with Dana Plautz. 2
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  Newton Lee:
  Interview with Nicholas Negroponte. 3

Games

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  Omer Rashid, Ian Mullins, Paul Coulton, Reuben Edwards:
  Extending cyberspace: location based games using cellular phones. 4
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  Mark John Taylor, David Gresty, Mike Baskett:
  Computer game-flow design. 5
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  Daniel Livingstone:
  Turing's test and believable AI in games. 6
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  Magy Seif El-Nasr, Brian K. Smith:
  Learning through game modding. 7

Digital cinema

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  Charles Koppelman:
  Dust to glory: the film. 8

Video services

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  Yutaka Tashiro, Yoshiyuki Yashima, Hiroshi Fuju:
  NTT's technologies for next-generation video services. 9

Announcements

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  Newton Lee:
  4th European Interactive TV Conference: EuroITV 2006: beyond usability, broadcast, and TV. 10
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  Newton Lee:
  ACM SIGCHI ACE 2006 Hollywood - International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology. 11
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  Newton Lee:
  3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Gaming Applications. 12

Volume 4, Number 2, April-June 2006

A word from the editor

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  Newton Lee:
  A word from the editor. 1

Interviews

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  Newton Lee:
  Adrian David Cheok. 2
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  Newton Lee:
  Dean Wright. 3

Visual effects (The Chronicles of Narnia)

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  Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney, Scott Farrar:
  The visual effects of The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. 4

Mixed reality entertainment (MMEC 2005 Keynote Presentation)

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  Adrian David Cheok, Keng Soon Teh, Ta Huynh Duy Nguyen, Tran Cong Thien Qui, Shang Ping Lee, Wei Liu, Cheng Chen Li, Diego J. Díaz, Clara Boj Tovar:
  Social and physical interactive paradigms for mixed-reality entertainment. 5

Games, user interface and performing arts

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  Athanasis Karoulis:
  Evaluating the LEGO-RoboLab interface with experts. 6
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  Jennifer Burg, Karola Luttringhaus:
  Entertaining with science, educating with dance. 7
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  Johanna Höysniemi:
  International survey on the Dance Dance Revolution game. 8

Simulation and games

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  Viknashvaran Narayanasamy, Kok Wai Wong, Chun Che Fung, Shri Rai:
  Distinguishing games and simulation games from simulators. 9

Announcements

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  Newton Lee:
  Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: new perspectives on gender, games and computing. 10
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  Newton Lee:
  Mobile convergence: WINMEC mobile entertainment media forum. 11
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  Newton Lee:
  2007 World Cyber Games Grand Final in Seattle: WCG 2006 in Monaz, Italy, October 18-22, 2006. 12
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  Newton Lee:
  2nd annual casual game evolution challenge. 13

Volume 4, Number 3, July 2006

A word from the editor

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  Newton Lee:
  A word from the editor. 1

Interviews

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  Newton Lee:
  Interview with Bran Ferren: (March 29, 2006). 2
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  Newton Lee:
  Interview with Danny Hillis: (March 29, 2006). 3

Music entertainment system

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  Satoru Tokuhisa, Susuke Okubo, Ken Suguro, Taku Kotabe, Masa Inakage:
  MYSQ: : an entertainment system based on content creation directly linked to communication. 4

Digital multimedia book

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  Lavinia Egidi, Marco Furini:
  From digital audiobook to secure digital multimedia-book. 5

Computer games

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  Delwin Clarke, P. Robert Duimering:
  How computer gamers experience the game situation: a behavioral study. 6

Advances in computer entertainment (ACE 2005 conference)

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  Adrian David Cheok, Gino Yu:
  Introduction. 7
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  Noriyoshi Shimizu, Naoya Koizumi, Maki Sugimoto, Hideaki Nii, Dairoku Sekiguchi, Masahiko Inami:
  A teddy-bear-based robotic user interface. 8
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  Shoichi Hasegawa, Ishikawa Toshiaki, Naoki Hashimoto, Marc Salvati, Hironori Mitake, Yasuharu Koike, Makoto Sato:
  Human-scale haptic interaction with a reactive virtual human in a real-time physics simulator. 9
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  Yugo Minomo, Yasuaki Kakehi, Makoto Iida, Takeshi Naemura:
  Transforming your shadow into colorful visual media: multiprojection of complementary colors. 10
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  Jens Müller, Sergei Gorlatch:
  Rokkatan: scaling an RTS game design to the massively multiplayer realm. 11

Announcements

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  Newton Lee:
  Call for papers: 4th annual international conference on game design and technology. 12
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  Newton Lee:
  World Cyber Games announces official 2006 tournament rules. 13
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  Newton Lee:
  New tax incentives a boon to digital entertainment in Georgia. 14
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  Newton Lee:
  Call for papers: The Fourth Annual International Conference on Game Design and Technology. 15
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  Newton Lee:
  The MyHero Project 2nd Annual Short Film Festival. 16
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  Newton Lee:
  ACM MM Workshop on Audio and Music Computing for Multimedia: (AMCMM '06). 17

Volume 4, Number 4, October-December 2006

3rd anniversary issue A word from the editor

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  Newton Lee:
  A word from the editor. 1

Interviews

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  Newton Lee:
  Interview with Masa Inakage: (June 13, 2006). 2
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  Newton Lee:
  Interview with Lee Jay Lorenzen: (October 2, 2006). 3

Mixed reality gaming

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  Omer Rashid, William Bamford, Paul Coulton, Reuben Edwards, Jürgen Scheible:
  PAC-LAN: mixed-reality gaming with RFID-enabled mobile phones. 4

Game design and technology (GDTW 2005)

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  Abdennour El Rhalibi:
  Foreword to the best papers of the GDTW 2005. 5
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  Zhaoqi Wang, Tianlu Mao, Shihong Xia:
  A fast and handy method for skeleton-driven body deformation. 6
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  Sami Laakso, Mikko Laakso:
  Design of a body-driven multiplayer game system. 7
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  Stefano Ferretti, Claudio E. Palazzi, Marco Roccetti, Giovanni Pau, Mario Gerla:
  FILA in gameland, a holistic approach to a problem of many dimensions. 8
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  Elvis S. Liu, Milo K. Yip, Gino Yu:
  Lucid platform: applying HLA DDM to multiplayer online game middleware. 9
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  Bernard Gorman, Mark Humphrys:
  Towards integrated imitation of strategic planning and motion modeling in interactive computer games. 10

Announcements

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  Newton Lee:
  EurolTV 2007 CFP: 5th European Interactive TV Conference. 11
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  Newton Lee:
  GDTW 2006: 4th International Conference on Game Design and Technology. 12
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  Newton Lee:
  CGIE2006: Joint International Conference on CyberGames and Interactive Entertainment & IE 2006: The Third Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment. 13
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  Newton Lee:
  IMMERSCOM 2007: First International Conference on Immersive Telecommunications. 14