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PAC-Bot: Writing Text Messages for Developing Point-and-Click Games

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In this paper, we investigate the effects of including a conversational intelligent agent for helping end user developers in defining the behaviour of point-and-click games through event-condition action rules. We discuss the rule support in a web-based authoring environment, together with the design and the implementation of the agent in the form of a chatbot. We compared the versions with and without the chatbot and the results show a decrease in the perceived cognitive load in complex tasks.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Luca Asunis, Vittoria Frau, Riccardo Macis, Chiara Pireddu & Lucio Davide Spano

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  1. Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Daniela Fogli

  2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Daniel Tetteroo

  3. University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Barbara Rita Barricelli

  4. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Simone Borsci

  5. Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Panos Markopoulos

  6. University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    George A. Papadopoulos

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Asunis, L., Frau, V., Macis, R., Pireddu, C., Spano, L.D. (2021). PAC-Bot: Writing Text Messages for Developing Point-and-Click Games. In: Fogli, D., Tetteroo, D., Barricelli, B.R., Borsci, S., Markopoulos, P., Papadopoulos, G.A. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12724. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79840-6_15

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