COVID-19 has heavily impacted our lives. To date, the ongoing pandemic continues to
cause dramatic societal changes and raises shared sentiments of uncertainty for our future …

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

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 …

Interactive narratives are frequently designed for learning and training applications, such as
social training. In these contexts, designers may be inexperienced in storytelling and …

Students are often tasked in engaging with activities where they have to learn skills that are
tangential to the learning outcomes of a course, such as learning a new software. The issue …

Gamification and serious games have the capacity to increase engagement in often non-
engaging contexts such as a test. In this study, we gamified a psychological test, the …

While some promising early work exists, gamified surveys are still not widespread. In this
work-in-progress paper, we present our methodology for gamifying surveys, which combines …

Increasing numbers of people represent themselves in legal disputes—known as pro se
litigants. Many lack the skills, experience, or knowledge to navigate legal proceedings …

The complexity of interactive narratives inspired a variety of visual aids and graphical
interfaces that support authoring tasks. This chapter analyzes the visual interface of popular …

Researchers and designers have considered how gamification can make education more
effective. In this paper, the role of player-character relationships is considered. Designers …