NDLI: Koko: an architecture for affect-aware games

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Sollenberger, Derek J. Singh, Munindar P.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	The importance of affect in delivering engaging experiences in entertainment and educational games is well recognized. Yet, current techniques for building affect-aware games are limited, with the maintenance and use of affect in essence being handcrafted for each game. The Koko architecture describes a service-oriented middleware that reduces the burden of incorporating affect recognition into games, thereby enabling developers to concentrate on the functional and creative aspects of their applications. The Koko architecture makes three key contributions: (1) improving developer productivity by creating a reusable and extensible environment; (2) yielding an enhanced user experience by enabling independently developed games and other applications to collaborate and provide a more coherent user experience than currently possible; (3) enabling affective communication in multiplayer and social games. Further, Koko is intended to be used as an extension of existing game architectures. We recognize that complex games require additional third party libraries, such as game engines. To enable the required flexibility we define the interfaces of the Koko architecture in a formal manner, thereby enabling the implementation of those interfaces to readily adapt to the unique requirements of game’s other architectural components and requirements.
Starting Page	255
Ending Page	286
Page Count	32
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13872532
Journal	Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Volume Number	24
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15737454
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2010-12-14
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Architecture Affect Games Emotion User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Computing Methodologies Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence

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