NPC (Non-Player Character) & Chatbots

Notes:

Non-player characters (NPCs) are characters in a video game or other interactive experience that are controlled by the computer or game engine, rather than by a human player. NPCs are typically programmed to behave in a certain way, according to the rules and logic of the game or experience, and they can interact with the player and other NPCs in a variety of ways.

In the context of non-player characters (NPCs) in video games and other interactive experiences, chatbots can be used to provide the player with a more natural and intuitive way of interacting with the NPC. By using chatbot technology, NPCs can engage in conversation with the player, providing information, asking questions, or responding to the player’s input in a natural and human-like way.

Some examples of how chatbots can be used in NPCs in video games and other interactive experiences include:

Dialogue trees: Chatbots can be used to create dialogue trees, which are branching sequences of conversation that allow the player to choose different responses or actions in a conversation with the NPC. By using chatbot technology, the NPC can respond to the player’s input in a natural and human-like way, providing a more engaging and immersive conversation experience.
Decision making: Chatbots can be used to help NPCs make decisions or take actions in response to the player’s input or actions. For example, an NPC might use a chatbot to evaluate the player’s responses in a conversation, and to decide whether to provide information, ask a question, or take some other action based on the player’s input.
Personalization: Chatbots can be used to personalize the NPC’s responses and actions based on the player’s specific interests, preferences, or characteristics. By using chatbot technology, the NPC can tailor its responses and actions to the individual player, making the interaction more relevant, engaging, and enjoyable for the player.

Dynamic facial expression refers to the range of movements and changes in facial features that occur as a result of emotional and cognitive processes. This can include changes in the position of the eyebrows, the shape of the mouth, and the movement of the eyes, among other factors. Dynamic facial expression can be used to communicate a wide range of emotions and intentions, from happiness and joy to anger, fear, and sadness.

Emotional agents refer to computer programs or devices that are designed to simulate or emulate human emotions and social intelligence in order to interact with humans in a more natural and intuitive way. These agents may use natural language processing, machine learning, and other techniques to analyze and respond to human input in a way that mimics human emotional and social behavior. Emotional agents may be used in a variety of applications, including customer service, healthcare, and education.

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The Social Metaverse: Battle for Privacy
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Effects of Mobile Platform on Female Engagement in MOBA Games
G Gao, PC Shih – 2018 – gretagao.com
… Players need to destroy all of the turrets on all lanes to approach the nexus, for which players need to slay enemies and non-player characters (NPC) such as minions … 5 mode, LoL also provides other play modes such as All Random All Mid, Bot, and The Twisted Treeline (3 vs …

Misinformation and Disinformation in Online Games: An Exploratory Investigation of Possible Cues
N Karlova – 2018 – digital.lib.washington.edu
Page 1. i © Copyright 2018 Natascha A. Karlova Page 2. ii Misinformation and Disinformation in Online Games: An Exploratory Investigation of Possible Cues Natascha A. Karlova A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of …

Learning to Play Pong using Policy Gradient Learning
S Phon-Amnuaisuk – arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.08452, 2018 – arxiv.org
… a player character (PC), which is the RL agent, and the non-player character (NPC), which … Activation Patterns from 200 hidden nodes (top) and 400 hidden nodes (bot- tom … 484- 489 (2016) 4. Phon-Amnuaisuk, S.: Learning chasing behaviours of non-player characters in games …

On political activism in digital games
D Cermak-Sassenrath – … : Journal of media and communication research, 2018 – tidsskrift.dk
… and create symbols by the shared live performance of activists (Emillie, 2016, Figure 10) or by programmable bots (PCLScripters, 2008) … by the player avatar but by computer-controlled team members, no killing by the player avatar but by non-player characters (NPCs) under …

On the effects of using word2vec representations in neural networks for dialogue act recognition
C Cerisara, P Kral, L Lenc – Computer Speech & Language, 2018 – Elsevier
… Nature, Human-human, Human-human, Bot(WoZ)-human … The French Emospeech corpus is a corpus of dialogues in the context of a serious game between human players and Non-Player Characters (NPC), which are controlled by an automatic dialogue manager in the real …

Using Other Minds: Transparency as a Fundamental Design Consideration for Artificial Intelligent Systems
RH Wortham – 2018 – researchgate.net
Page 1. Using Other Minds: Transparency as a Fundamental Design Consideration for Artificial Intelligent Systems submitted by Robert H. Wortham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Bath Department of Computer Science May 2018 COPYRIGHT …

Informing a BDI Player Model for an Interactive Narrative
J Rivera-Villicana, F Zambetta, J Harland… – Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 – dl.acm.org
… the choices made only affect the order of some events (eg the order in which a player asks questions to a Non-Player-Character) … The work in [19] presents a BDI model that considers the pre-defined personality of Non-Player Characters (NPCs) to define their reactions to …

Artificial intelligence and games
GN Yannakakis, J Togelius – 2018 – Springer
… and some of them incorporate advances in AI for controlling non-player characters, generating content … NES Natural Evolution Strategy NLP Natural Language Processing NPC Non-Player Character PC Player … many games better than any human, we can design AI bots that are …

Auditory Attention, Implications for Serious Game Design
N Bajaj, F Bellotti, R Berta, JR Carriòn… – … Conference on Games …, 2018 – Springer
… Non-player characters (NPCs) are a key mechanics in this regard [39] … https://tatoeba.org. Accessed 16 Jan 2017. 39. Subramaniam, S., Aggarwal, P., Dasgupta, GB, Paradkar, A.: Cobots-a cognitivemulti-bot conversational framework for technical support …

The Economics of Artificial Intelligence
S Mohanty, S Vyas – How to Compete in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 2018 – Springer
… There are AI solutions like chatbots that learn through interaction. The idea is fairly simple. You interact with the machine and machine in turn learns from you to form the basis of subsequent responses. Microsoft’s Tay, a Twitter-based chatbot, was designed to learn from its …

Investigating Virtual Environment and Optimal Behavior of Swarm Robots
S Sher – 2018 – ubir.buffalo.edu
… to non-player characters. A number of studies were reviewed which have been done on Behavior Trees … finds the target. The data shared between different bots is in the form of an ar- ray with the following information, 1. BOT ID 2. Present X Position 3. Present Y Position …

Model Decomposition for Forward Model Approximation
A Dockhorn, T Tippelt, R Kruse – 2018 IEEE Symposium Series …, 2018 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… For example, games often display multiple entities that act mostly independent from each other (the player’s agent, non- player characters, etc.) … However, the random bot only rarely wins a game, which would be necessary to find the win-conditions …

General video game ai: a multi-track framework for evaluating agents, games and content generation algorithms
D Perez-Liebana, J Liu, A Khalifa, RD Gaina… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 – arxiv.org
… creates the game that can be played either by a human or a bot … agents, or controllers) can implement to interact with the game – hence GVGAI bots can play … Additionally, sprites are grouped in categories attending to their general behavior: Non-Player Characters (NPC), static …

Stark Chronicle
KSUSR Symbolism – digitalcommons.kent.edu
… by Professor Paul Baus, a sculptor. Prior to the de velopment of the new seal, the university was using the seal for the State of Ohio with “Kent State University” wrapped around the bot tom. There was never any evidence that …

A Cognitive Architecture for Agent-Based Artificial Life Simulation
R Vieira, B Dembogurski, L Alvim, F Braida – International Conference on …, 2018 – Springer
… The simulation of realistic virtual living beings has many applications, ranging from use in non-player characters (NPCs) in games to crowd and traffic simulation … [1, 9] use them in the context of simulating characters in a narrative, while [3] apply them to build realistic bots for the …

Playing Games
GN Yannakakis, J Togelius – Artificial Intelligence and Games, 2018 – Springer
… possible, but instead to be entertaining or human- like; see below for non-player characters playing for … However, there are instances when you want a non-player character to play as well as possible … 2004) in such a way that human participants thought that the bots were human …

Embodied Historiographies: Affect and Realism in the” Medal of Honor” and” Call of Duty” Franchises after” Saving Private Ryan”
MN Heckner – 2018 – deepblue.lib.umich.edu
… non-player-character, or helper-NPC (see below), since both provide supportive or necessary Page 21. 9 … Non-Player-Characters (NPCs) and Persistent Non-Player Characters (PNPCs) While Non-Player-Characters are by no means exclusive to the FPS, my chapters explore …

Social Life on Distant Alien Worlds
WS Bainbridge – Computer Simulations of Space Societies, 2018 – Springer
… Their opponent is a Techrejector, a non-player character who represents something like Luddism, not merely … Fragile, intelligent, rely upon nano-bot super-technology … highly social in the player’s perception, because the programmed behavior of non-player characters is complex …

Development of an Artificial Intelligent Software Agent using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques to play Backgammon Variants
A Kostias, G Tagkoulis – 2018 – diva-portal.org
… is the most popular method for game development and includes Finite State Machines (FSM), Behaviour Trees (BT) and utility-based AI [1]. FSM is the AI method that mostly preferred for the task of control and decision-making processes of Non-Player Characters in games …

Bioshock as the Infinite Parent: Parenting and Play in the Bioshock Series
K Schrier – Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock, 2018 – books.google.com
… Once the piece drops and reaches the bot- tom, it is stuck until you can complete a row … you are given primary missions to complete, but you can decide instead to spend hours exploring the virtual game world, com- pleting side quests, or interacting with non-player characters …

Semantic Parsing in Spoken Language Understanding using Abstract Meaning Representation
H Shen – 2018 – bir.brandeis.edu
… machine-interpretable commands. Because within the realm of SLU, there exists a variety of different applications and scenarios such as voice assistant, chatbot, automatic calling … semantic vocabulary and choices the non-player character makes …

Dungeons and DQNs: Toward Reinforcement Learning Agents that Play Tabletop Roleplaying Games
LJ Martin, S Sood, MO Riedl – cc.gatech.edu
… Master (DM)—whose job is to act as arbiter, enforcing an agreed-upon set of rules pertaining to the more formulaic parts of roleplaying, such as combat, and to dictate the actions of any additional characters called non-player characters (NPCs) … OpenAI DOTA 2 1v1 bot, 2017 …

Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Worlds–Toward Human-Level AI Agents
VM Petrovi? – IEEE Access, 2018 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… appearance of the environment. It is even reported that with more complex visual appearance of the simulated world, the necessity for more complex NPCs (non player characters) is increasing [20]. Artificial intelligence is recognized …

Emulating human play in a leading mobile card game
H Baier, A Sattaur, E Powley, S Devlin… – IEEE Transactions …, 2018 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Page 1. 2475-1502 (c) 2018 IEEE. Personal use is permitted, but republication/ redistribution requires IEEE permission. See http://www.ieee.org/ publications_standards/publications/rights/index.html for more information. This …

Simulating complex social behaviours of virtual agents through case-based planning
T Trescak, A Bogdanovych – Computers & Graphics, 2018 – Elsevier
… In modern video games, we often encounter situations in which computer-controlled avatars (non-player characters or simply NPCs) must interact … learning curves and popular, yet simplistic and limited traditional approaches of modelling and controlling agent / bot behaviour in …

Impact of gamification on student engagement in graduate medical studies
R Andriamiarisoa – 2018 – scholarworks.waldenu.edu
Page 1. Walden University ScholarWorks Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies …

Exploration and Combat in Nethack
J Campbell – 2018 – campbelljc.com
… 2.1.3 Interfacing with NetHack Throughout the past decades there have been quite a few automated players (‘bots’) created … This approach is similar to what was done for the game of Rogue with the ROG-O-MATIC bot [MJAH84] … A non-player character (NPC) can …

Video Games for Earthly Survival: Gaming in the Post-Anthropocene
P Ruffino – 2018 – eprints.lincoln.ac.uk
Page 1. 1 Page 2. 1 Cover Image Rosa Menkman, rosa-menkman.blogspot.com creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Graphic Design Christina Drachsler Page 3. 2 Digital Cultures: Knowledge / Culture / Technology Conference …

The Paranoiac-Critical Method of Reflectance Transformation Imaging
B Behr – 2018 – ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk
Page 1. 1 Page 2. 1 Cover Image Rosa Menkman, rosa-menkman.blogspot.com creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Graphic Design Christina Drachsler Page 3. 2 Digital Cultures: Knowledge / Culture / Technology Conference …

Procedural Narrative Generation Through Emotionally Interesting Non-Player Characters
I Griffith – 2018 – diva-portal.org
… Non-Player Characters Page 2. Abstract … This study focuses on how procedural content generation can be applied to create emotionally interesting non-player characters and through this, generate narrative snippets that can immerse and interest a reader …

Design of a Screen-Based Simulation for Training and Automated Assessment of Teamwork Skills
RH Steadman, YM Huang, A Koenig, J Lee, M Iseli… – 2018 – apps.dtic.mil
… An inventory of skills appropriate for the scope of practice for the roles of the player and non-player characters (NPCs) for each scenario was also created. ? Subtask 4: Create a knowledge assessment (baseline team skills) scenario: 100% completed …

From ephemeral computing to deep bioinspired algorithms: New trends and applications
D Camacho, R Lara-Cabrera… – Future Generation …, 2018 – Elsevier
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Analysing Results from AI Benchmarks: Key Indicators and How to Obtain Them
F Martínez-Plumed, J Hernández-Orallo – arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.08186, 2018 – arxiv.org
… This brings the potential to use them as non-player characters (NPC) or non-human opponents for more complex games in the future … Renz et al., 2015] or StarCraft AI competitions) as well as the existing architectures for multi-purpose game agents and bots addressing them …

Playgrounds for the self: video game narratives’ effect on moral identity.
A Schofield – 2018 – digitalrepository.wheatoncollege …
Page 1. i -i- WHEATON COLLEGE Norton, Massachusetts This is to certify that Andrew G. Schofield has fulfilled the requirements for graduation with Departmental Honors in English. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was awarded on May 19th, 2018. Registrar Credit: 2 …

Virtual World Representation of Family Homes
WS Bainbridge – Family History Digital Libraries, 2018 – Springer
… rather obviously did not represent any kind of family artifact. The person is Dr. Will, and a program was placed inside it that might be classified as an exceedingly simple chatbot. 31 Clicking the user’s mouse on it caused it to …

Modeling players
GN Yannakakis, J Togelius – Artificial Intelligence and Games, 2018 – Springer
… 5.1 What Player Modeling Is and What It Is Not One could arguably detect behavioral, emotional or cognitive aspects of both hu- man players and non-human players, or non-player characters (notwithstanding the actual existence of emotions in the latter) …

Virtual animal characters in future communication: explorative study on character choice and agency
JAJ Kiskola – 2018 – tampub.uta.fi
Page 1. Virtual animal characters in future communication: Exploratory study on character choice and agency Joel Aarni Johannes Kiskola University of Tampere Faculty of Communication Sciences Degree Programme in Human Technology Interaction M. Sc. thesis …

Automated Testing in Virtual Worlds
D Loubos – 2018 – dspace.library.uu.nl
… such as for modern MMOs and RPGs. Some parts of this can be automated, such as having bots move randomly through the game world to see if they get stuck or find other problems with the world. As the complexity of the task …

Artificial intelligence and human development: toward a research agenda
M Smith, S Neupane – 2018 – idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org
… Learn about effective regulatory models. Document and assess AI regulatory models developed to deal with the emergence of new AI-driven activities such as predictive policing, autonomous vehicles, and chatbots. Determine …

Intelligent Information and Database Systems: 10th Asian Conference, ACIIDS 2018, Dong Hoi City, Vietnam, March 19-21, 2018, Proceedings
NT Nguyen, DH Hoang, TP Hong, H Pham, B Trawi?ski – 2018 – books.google.com
Page 1. Ngoc Thanh Nguyen · Duong Hung Hoang Tzung-Pei Hong · Hoang Pham Bogdan Trawin´ski (Eds.) Intelligent Information and Database Systems 10th Asian Conference, ACIIDS 2018 Dong Hoi City, Vietnam, March 19–21, 2018 Proceedings, Part I 123 Page 2 …

Designing AI
EF Churchill, P van Allen, M Kuniavsky – Inviting Young Scientists, 2018 – dl.acm.org
Page 37. NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2018 INTERACTIONS 35 INTERACTIONS. ACM. ORG Elizabeth F. Churchill, Google Philip van Allen, ArtCenter College of Design Mike Kuniavsky, PARC DESIGNING AI AI techniques have …

Retention and Gamification: A Quantitative Study
D Luch – 2018 – search.proquest.com
… 48 Bots. ….49 … Retention …..102 Machine Learning and Bots …..103 …

Design and implementation of a gameplay UI for a MOBA mobile game
V Wahlroos – 2018 – aaltodoc.aalto.fi
… were missing. Some players took the missing HUD as a positive change that made the game more realistic and their focus was much more on the (non-player characters) NPCs and the environment of the game. 1 Another research …

AI-based music discovery application design
J Dornig – 2018 – politesi.polimi.it
Page 1. AI-based Music Discovery Application Design MSc Product Service System Design 2017/2018 Double Degree Program Candidate Jan Dornig Scuola del Design Tutor Davide Fassi College of Design and Innovation Tutor Sun Xiaohua Page 2. Page 3. •I• ABSTRACT …

The Role of Agency in the Design and Play of Exercise Video Games
M Kaos – 2018 – qspace.library.queensu.ca
Page 1. THE ROLE OF AGENCY IN THE DESIGN AND PLAY OF EXERCISE VIDEO GAMES By Maximus D. Kaos A thesis submitted to the School of Computing in conformity with the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Queen’s University …

How Players Speak to an Intelligent Game Character Using Natural Language Messages
F Allison, E Luger, K Hofmann – Transactions of the Digital Games …, 2018 – todigra.org
… One message specified its subject by naming help_bot (). Six messages lacked an explicit subject, because the intended subject was the same as the previous message; we label these as “Antecedent (implied)”. 20 Natural Language Messages Page 21 …

Dual Indicators to Analyse AI Benchmarks: Difficulty, Discrimination, Ability and Generality
F Martinez-Plumed… – IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… games (eg, [4]) and relatively well in many arcade games (eg, [9]). This brings the potential to use them as non- player characters (NPC) or … Birds [18] or StarCraft [19] AI competitions) as well as the existing architectures for multi-purpose game agents and bots addressing them …

Massively Multiplayer Online Gamers’ Language: Argument for an M-Gamer Corpus
P Bawa – The Qualitative Report, 2018 – nsuworks.nova.edu
Page 1. The Qualitative Report Volume 23 | Number 11 Article 8 11-11-2018 Massively Multiplayer Online Gamers’ Language: Argument for an M-Gamer Corpus Papia Bawa Purdue University, pbawa@purdue.edu Follow this …

Influencing Behavior Unobtrusively in Virtual Gaming Environments.
IX Dominguez – 2018 – repository.lib.ncsu.edu
… 3 Page 17. example, re-engage players or prevent bots from gaining an unfair advantage 1.1 Thesis … 5 Page 19. property will affect player behavior can be controlled, for example, to determine if players are actively attentive and engaged, or for bot detection …

Artificial Intelligence for Business
R Akerkar – 2018 – Springer
Page 1. SPRINGER BRIEFS IN BUSINESS 123 Rajendra Akerkar Arti cial Intelligence for Business Page 2. SpringerBriefs in Business Page 3. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8860 Page 4. Rajendra Akerkar Artificial Intelligence for Business …

Using Player Modeling to Improve Automatic Playtesting
D Anghileri – 2018 – diva-portal.org
Page 1. IN DEGREE PROJECT INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, SECOND CYCLE, 30 CREDITS , STOCKHOLM SWEDEN 2018 Using Player Modeling to Improve Automatic Playtesting DAVIDE ANGHILERI …

A Bermuda Triangle?
I Pettersson, F Lachner, AK Frison, A Riener… – Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 – dl.acm.org
Page 1. A Bermuda Triangle? – A Review of Method Application and Triangulation in User Experience Evaluation Ingrid Pettersson* Volvo Cars and Chalmers University of Technology Göteborg, Sweden ingrid.pettersson@volvocars.com …

Statistical Planning: Building Models of Entropy of Centralized Planning for Multi-Agent Systems
E Jacopin – 2018 56th Annual Allerton Conference on …, 2018 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… fit the experimental measures. I. INTRODUCTION We consider the problem of providing macroscopic means of controlling the planning of the behaviors of non-player characters (NPCs) in video-games. In such multi-agents …

A two teraflop swarm
S Jones, M Studley, S Hauert… – Frontiers in Robotics and …, 2018 – frontiersin.org
We introduce the Xpuck swarm, a research platform with an aggregate raw processing power inexcess of two teraflops. The swarm uses 16 e-puck robots augmented with custom hardware thatuses the substantial CPU and GPU processing power available from modern mobile system …

Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A journey to creating intrinsically motivating learning experiences
G Kalmpourtzis – 2018 – taylorfrancis.com
Page 1. Page 2. Educational Game Design Fundamentals A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences Page 3. http://taylorandfrancis.com Page 4. Educational Game Design Fundamentals A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating …

5 Panel discussions 5.1 Panel Discussion: Concurrency vs. Parallelism
A Bieniusa, HJ Boehm, M Herlihy… – New Challenges in …, 2018 – drops.dagstuhl.de
Page 27. Annette Bieniusa, Hans-J. Boehm, Maurice Herlihy, and Erez Petrank 25 5 Panel discussions 5.1 Panel Discussion: Concurrency vs. Parallelism Matthew Sinclair (AMD Research–Bellevue, US) License Creative Commons …

Teach Like a Gamer: Adapting the Instructional Design of Digital Role-Playing Games
C Finseth – 2018 – books.google.com
Page 1. Adapting the Instructional Design of Digital Role-Playing Games TEACH LIKE CARLY FINSETH Studies in Gaming SERIESEDITOR Matthew Wilhelm Kapell Page 2. Teach Like a Gamer Page 3. STUDIES IN GAMING …

Investigation Into Game-based Crisis Scenario Modelling and Simulation System
P Praiwattana – 2018 – core.ac.uk
Page 1. INVESTIGATION INTO GAME-BASED CRISIS SCENARIO MODELLING AND SIMULATION SYSTEM Pisit Praiwattana A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Liverpool John Moores University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy June 2018 …

Digital Culture & Society (DCS): Vol. 4, Issue 1/2018-Rethinking AI: Neural Networks, Biometrics and the New Artificial Intelligence
R Reichert, M Fuchs, P Abend, A Richterich, K Wenz – 2018 – books.google.com
Page 1. Digital Culture & Society Ramón Reichert, Mathias Fuchs (eds.) Rethinking Al: Neural Networks, Biometrics and O the New Artificial Intelligence [transcript] Page 2. Digital Vol. 4, Issue 1/2018 Ramón Reichert, Mathias …

The Discourse of Online Live Streaming on Twitch: Communication between Conversation and Commentary
H Wirman – 2018 – academia.edu
Page 1. ß The Discourse of Online Live Streaming on Twitch: Communication between Conversation and Commentary PhD Candidate: Daniel Recktenwald, Department of English Hong Kong Polytechnic University Board of …

Narrative Games A Ludo-narratological Examination of Video Game Narrative Frederik R. Drescher Aalborg University
FR Drescher – academia.edu
Page 1. Running head: NARRATIVE GAMES 1 Narrative Games A Ludo-narratological Examination of Video Game Narrative Frederik R. Drescher Aalborg University Author Note Email Address: Frederikrexd@gmail.com Page 2. NARRATIVE GAMES DRESCHER 2 Abstract …

Games and Gamification in Market Research: Increasing Consumer Engagement in Research for Business Success
B Adamou – 2018 – books.google.com
Page 1. GAMES and GAMF(LATION nMARKET RESEARCH Increasing consumer engagement in research for business success Page 2. i Praise for Games and Gamification in market research ‘Incredibly well-written and insightful …

Design for an Art Therapy Robot: An Explorative Review of the Theoretical Foundations for Engaging in Emotional and Creative Painting with a Robot
M Cooney, M Menezes – Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2018 – mdpi.com
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