Levels of interaction: A user-guided experience in large-scale virtual environments

David Panzoli; Christopher Peters; Ian Dunwell; Stéphane Sanchez; Panagiotis Petridis; Aristidis Protopsaltis; Vincent Scesa; Sara De Freitas

doi:10.1109/VS-GAMES.2010.27

Levels of interaction: A user-guided experience in large-scale virtual environments

David Panzoli^*, Christopher Peters, Ian Dunwell, Stéphane Sanchez, Panagiotis Petridis, Aristidis Protopsaltis, Vincent Scesa, Sara De Freitas

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Aston Business School

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This paper investigates a range of challenges faced in the design of a serious game, teaching history to a player immersed in an 'open' virtual environment. In the context of this paper, such an environment is described as an exploratory, expansive virtual world within which a user may interact in a non-linear, situated fashion with both the environment and virtual characters. The main contribution of this paper consists in the introduction of the levels of interaction (LoI), a novel framework designed to assist in the creation of interactions between the player and characters. The LoI approach also addresses the necessity for balancing computational efficiency with the need to provide believable and interactive virtual characters, by allowing varying degrees of animation, display and, ultimately, interaction detail. This paper demonstrates the challenges faced when implementing such a technique, as well as the potential benefits it brings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2nd International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2010
Pages	87-90
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2010.27
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	2nd IEEE International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2010 - Braga, Portugal Duration: 25 Mar 2010 → 26 Mar 2010

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Conference	2nd IEEE International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2010
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Braga
Period	25/03/10 → 26/03/10

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Panzoli, D., Peters, C., Dunwell, I., Sanchez, S., Petridis, P., Protopsaltis, A., Scesa, V., & De Freitas, S. (2010). Levels of interaction: A user-guided experience in large-scale virtual environments. In 2nd International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2010 (pp. 87-90). Article 5460055 https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2010.27

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