Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a major psychological theory of human motivation, has
become increasingly popular in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research on games and …

The recent popularity of augmented reality (AR) devices has enabled players to participate
in interactive narratives through virtual events and characters populated in a real-world …

In this paper, we introduce NarrativePlay, a novel system that allows users to role-play a
fictional character and interact with other characters in narratives such as novels in an …

How the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do
mean; with examples ranging from Papers, Please to Dys4ia. In How Pac-Man Eats, Noah …

Augmented Reality serious games have become an emerging solution to positively
influence the learning experience for children born in the digital age. However, systematic …

Within interactive narrative research, agency is largely considered in terms of a player's
autonomy in a game, defined as theoretical agency. Rather than in terms of whether or not …

Game-like environments are increasingly used for conducting research due to the
affordances that such environments offer. However, the problem remains that such …

Self-determination theory (SDT), a psychological theory of human motivation, is a prominent
paradigm in human-computer interaction (HCI) research on games. However, our prior …

Agent-based simulations are widely used for modeling human behavior in various contexts.
However, such simulations may oversimplify human decision-making. We propose the use …

In automatically generated interactive narratives (INs) with strong story structure, there is
often a tension between player choice and author constraints. This tension arises when the …