An ‘Amuse-Bouche at Best'

An 'Amuse-Bouche at Best': 360° VR Storytelling in Full Perspective

Much has been written about the function of narrative in virtual reality (VR) productions (Aylett & Louchart, 2003; Aylett et al, 2005; Ryan, 2001; 2005; 2008; 2009), but the role of the audience, and the relative degree of control that they have over the content, has led some scholars to believe that there is an ontological problem with describing VR in narrative terms. This article investigat...

An Overview of the AMUSE Social Gaming Platform

This paper presents an overview of the novel platform AMUSE (Agent-based Multi-User Social Environment), an agent-based social gaming platform that leverages the power of industrial-strength agent technologies. The core need that motivated the initial work on AMUSE was to provide game developers with a solid tool targeting common horizontal issues in social gaming, like user management and game...

AMUSE: A Tool for Evaluating Affective Interfaces

The design of affective interfaces introduces new challenges for their assessment. New methods and tools have to be developed, taking into account the emotional dimension of Computer-Human Interactions. This paper presents the tool AMUSE that allows to conduct such evaluations by collecting and aggregating different sources of data including user's eye gaze and physiological data. Some results ...

Promoting Policing at Its Best

Indirect Evidence in Denotation & Discourse: At Best Second-Best∗

This paper develops a threshold-based semantics for the Turkish indirect evidential marker, then shows that this marker’s behavior in interrogatives, so-called interrogative flip, follows from the structure of discourse as formulated by models that incorporate speaker commitment. I first establish that the indirect evidential marks information for which a speaker’s evidence is at best second-be...