Game metrics are numerical data obtained from the userinteraction with the game software, and form a valuable data source to user experience research and –design, because these data offer quantitative, time-stamped information about the specific behavior of players of computer games. By combining this game metrical data with traditional user experience measures – biofeedback, surveys and usabil...

Minecraft is a first-person perspective video game in which players roam freely in a large three-dimensional environment. Players mine the landscape for minerals and use these minerals to create structures ( e.g., houses) and mould the landscape. But can Minecraft be used to craft communities and minds? In this opinion piece, we highlight the enormous potential of Minecraft for fostering social...

Currently, software certification and verification is perceived as overly difficult and hard to understand task in program development. This image can be changed through effective instruction of prospect programmers during their studies. Teaching Hoare logic is a process that can be made significantly easier if appropriate tools are employed. Having an environment tailored to the style and cont...

This paper distills core lessons about how researchers (scientists, engineers, planners, etc.) interested in promoting sustainable development can increase the likelihood of producing usable knowledge. We draw the lessons from both practical experience in diverse contexts around the world and from scholarly advances in understanding the relationships between science and society. Many of these l...

The visual cues from multiple support regions of different sizes and resolutions are complementary in classifying a candidate box in object detection. Effective integration of local and contextual visual cues from these regions has become a fundamental problem in object detection. In this paper, we propose a gated bi-directional CNN (GBD-Net) to pass messages among features from different suppo...

In the development of a digital sculpture for a competition entry, a mathematical approach was investigated as a method to develop a variety of forms. This paper covers the initial inspiration for the sculpture, Georg Nees’s Gravel Stones, and then the series of approaches that were developed expanding the starting concept. Each step in the process is described including the decisions and alter...

Computational paralinguistic analysis is increasingly being used in a wide range of applications, including securitysensitive applications such as speaker verification, deceptive speech detection, and medical diagnostics. While state-ofthe-art machine learning techniques, such as deep neural networks, can provide robust and accurate speech analysis, they are susceptible to adversarial attacks. ...

The MEDIANEUM project consists in an interactive installation allowing an audience to explore a timeline and access informational data such as texts, images and video. Through a Microsoft Kinect depth sensor, users’ skeletons are captured and their gestures are tracked to interact with the data presented on a screen, made using Processing for faster prototyping, This part of the workflow is bei...