[ISUGameDev-annc] HCI Seminar on gameplay with sociable robots

[Andres R. <and...@gm...>]

Hey all, there is a talk this friday that some of you may be
interested in. I missed last week's talk though I wish I would have
gone.  If any of you attended, feel free to email us
what it was about and if it was cool :-)

Cheers,



Andres

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 Following on from the successful discussion on online gaming
and story telling last week, the reading for the HCI seminar this
Friday will explore game play with sociable robots. The reading is:

Brooks, A. G.,  Gray, J., Hoffman, G., Lockerd, A., Lee, H. & Breazeal, C.
(2004). Robot's play: interactive games with sociable machines, ACM
Computers in Entertainment, 2(3), 1-18.

PDF Link : http://hcvl.hci.iastate.edu/~derrick/HCISEMINAR/p10-brooks.pdf

ABSTRACT

Personal robots for human entertainment form a new class of computer-based
entertainment that is beginning to become commercially and computationally
practical. We expect that the principal manifestation of the robots'
entertainment capabilities will be socially interactive game playing. We
describe this form of gaming and summarize our current efforts in this
direction on our lifelike, expressive, autonomous humanoid robot. Our
focus is on teaching the robot via playful interaction using natural
social gesture and language. We detail this in terms of two broad
categories: teaching as play and teaching with play.

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 Th HCI seminar is a weekly seminar open to all faculty and students in
HCI related disciplines.  Each week we will read and discuss one or more
articles on the latest research in Human Computer Interaction from a
multi-disciplinary perspective.

 We meet Friday mornings at 9am in Room 20 of Howe Hall. The reading for
each meeting will be announced and a pdf of the reading will be made
available in advance. Everyone is encouraged to attend as desired and
suggestions for weekly readings are welcome.

Hope to see you there, and feel free to bring a coffee and breakfast!

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Derrick Parkhurst, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Department of Psychology and
The Human Computer Interaction Program
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa, 50011
der...@hc...
http://hcvl.hci.iastate.edu/
(office) 2624b Howe Hall  515-294-4549
(lab)    2624  Howe Hall  515-294-4922

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