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The goal of Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP) and their variations is to transport a set of orders with the minimum number of vehicles at least cost. Most approaches are designed to solve specific problem variations independently whereas in real world applications, those constraints are handled concurrently. This paper describes a novel approach to solve variants of Open VRP, Multi Depot VRP, Capacitated...
This essay utilizes historical records from the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, in conjunction with historical archives and analyses performed by academic scholars, to investigate Xuanzang's trip to Central Asia and India, which produced detailed records such as number of monasteries, monastics, discussion and debate methods as well as observations of the evolvement of both Buddhism and...
In this study, we investigate the factors influencing the playability of a music rhythm game, and then design a game with a higher level of playability. Three categories were used to investigate playability. They were functionality, structural, and audiovisual. Four popular games are used to carry out the comparison of playability. They include ‘Don't Tap The White Tile V2’, ‘Deemo’, ‘Cytus’, and...
Reading Tang dynasty poetry may improve both character education and language proficiency of children in nursery school. However, Tang poetry is a little abstract and difficult to understand for preschool children. To overcome this difficulty, in our study, a digital Game based Tang Poetry learning system (GTPLS) is developed. An investigation was conducted of 5 to 6 years old children separated into...
This paper presents a novel Human-Computer Interaction design approach for an automotive direct manipulation interface, aiming primarily to act as a younger passengers' interactive infotainment system in order to minimize driver distraction. The proposed design is applied in the peripheral windscreens with the use of a novel Head-Up Display system. The system evaluation by twenty users offered promising...
In this study, a game integrated historical events were designed for improving and promoting students' motivation and understanding for history education. For this reason, the epistemological beliefs were incorporated in the model to explore students' digital games preference by applying technology acceptance model (TAM). A total of 112 fifth grade students in an elementary school were participated...
Traditional puppet performances already have qualities of improvisation. In front of a large audience, the actors rely on the story outline and add their own creative improvisation to complete a perfect performance. In this study, with digital electronic mediums to construct actor-oriented interactive stage, set up the background screen, projector, stereo speakers, XBOX360 detectors, etc. Finally,...
Cygames is a company which develops mobile games in Japan. The related game "Granblue Fantasy" is based on lottery mechanisms of "specific unit can be exchanged by certain amount of money consumed" and "specific unit can be exchanged by certain times of lottery". According to consumers' mental states and companies' measures to make profits, this study analyzes the advantages...
This research aims to assess the effectiveness by clinical trial. A total ten patients were asked to use this game for rehabilitation in 24 sessions. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: a comparison of pre- and post-training assessment results revealed that the programs led to the following significant changes: improved Fugl-Meyer Assessment of motor function (increases of 9.30);...
It has become an increasingly important issue with respect to improve the efficacy of rehabilitation and increase patient willingness to attend rehabilitation treatment in recent years. Virtual Reality (VR) has been used in combination with medical treatment and technology. More specifically, its skeletal tracking system is being widely used in the field of medicine and rehabilitation. Although the...
There is a visual novel which is a game combined with visual interaction and novel texts. We have challenged making an EPUB-type visual novel, because we can easily make it. The EPUB format is based on HTML5. In addition, We can get an easy way to make a visual novel with equations. Our visual novel gives us happy math.
This paper discusses the creative practice of independents and individuals and their requirements for tools to author location-based experiences (LBE), including location-based games (LBG). The work describes and presents initial findings from a questionnaire study and a workshop. Both studies focused upon the working practices of individuals and small independent artists, hackers and researchers,...
The emphasis of this paper is put on 5G multi-cell networks which are composed of dense and mutually interfering evolved NodeBs (eNBs) sharing the scarce radio resources. Consequently, greater focus is given to resource management techniques that take Inter-Cell Interference (ICI) into account, in particular to power control. Beside power control, this paper tackles also user association and scheduling...
This paper proposes an efficient implementation of Breadth First Search (BFS) for General Video Game Playing (GVGP). This method is specialized for deterministic games, which often cannot be solved by a single action and require a more extensive search to solve. Most existing AI programs cannot search the game space efficiently, and thus perform poorly in deterministic games. To improve the efficiency...
This paper describes an application of Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) in a fighting game AI. MCTS is a best-first search technique that uses stochastic simulations. In this paper, we evaluate its effectiveness on FightingICE, a game AI competition platform at Computational Intelligence and Games Conferences. Our results confirm that MCTS is an effective search for controlling a game AI in the aforementioned...
A decision-level fusion (DLF)-based team tactics estimation method in soccer videos is newly presented. In our method, tactics estimation based on audio-visual and formation features is newly adopted since the tactics of the soccer game are closely related to the audio-visual sequences and player positions. Therefore, by using these features, we classify the tactics via Support Vector Machine (SVM)...
Being a new player in a multiplayer game is not an easy experience. If the game requires coordinated team play for success, an inexperienced player can receive a high amount of abuse because of what others view as bad plays. While the companies try to alleviate this problem by focusing on the offenders, we present another approach that can also help in decreasing toxic behavior. In our paper we introduce...
Because of rapid population aging, it is necessary to design and develop senior-friendly or disability-friendly interfaces that can decrease the cognitive workload caused by an interface. At that time, the design implications and evaluation criteria of an interface should be needed for creating senior-friendly and disability-friendly interfaces. One of the elements that relate to memory functions...
Social cognition is the study of how people interact with each other in a social situation. An effective interaction would require higher degree of cognitive involvement between the participants and consequently, an enhanced synchrony between their neural mechanisms. In this study, twelve pairs of subjects interacted with each other via a cognitively engaging experimental paradigm in which they either...
Individuals with Down syndrome should be adapted to society. As there are various projects to achieve this goal, one of them is establishing cafes where all waiters/waitresses are individuals with syndrome. The Down Cafe is the one of these cafes that is located in Istanbul, Turkey. In such cafes, some of the tasks are quite hard to be performed by individuals with Down syndrome, such as taking orders...
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