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The current paper is an investigation towards understanding the navigational performance of humans on a network when the 'landmark' nodes are blocked. We observe that humans learn to cope up, despite the continued introduction of blockages in the network. The experiment proposed involves the task of navigating on a word network based on a puzzle called the word morph. We introduce blockages in the...
A fundamental requirement of non-player characters (NPCs) in today's computer games is to be able to move through a complex virtual world in an intelligent way. Pathfinding or path planning techniques are used by games developers to determine suitable routes, during gameplay, from a starting location to a goal position. These techniques make use of graphs to efficiently represent the game world. Navigation...
We present two social tagging games based on the Chain Model for object association. GiveALink Slider and Great Minds Think Alike harness human power to generate large streams of social tagging data. Such social annotations are utilized to help people organize Web resources and infer semantic relationship, which in turn can enhance Web applications such as search, recommendation, navigation, and categorization...
How can humans come to share the meaning of signals when only very limited media are available and there are no pre-defined meanings to signals? To answer the above question, we designed two-player games, which require the players' cooperation to play. The only communication means are to send color (hue) signals in one game, or monotonic sound signals in another. The player must assign a necessary...
Currently virtual reality technology has a positive impact on the consumers' behavior of online shopping. The interface design of the three-dimensional dynamic visual sense meets the more people's experience of visual perception from technical point of view. But there is little research on the virtual situation design of electronic shopping. The paper clarifies that virtual reality technology shall...
Communities are undergoing a fundamental transformation in structure. This change in social organization has implications for group formation, loyalty strength, and the flow of information and resources through social networks. Both the former and new structures have unique advantages as well as particular weaknesses. This paper explores both sets of community structures, and examines how various...
The immensely popular video game Pac-Man has challenged players for nearly 30 years, with the very best human competitors striking a highly honed balance between the games two key factors; the 'chomping' of pills (or pac-dots) throughout the level whilst avoiding the ghosts that haunt the maze trying to capture the titular hero. We believe that in order to achieve this it is important for an agent...
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