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International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems

KES 2011: Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems pp 197–206Cite as

Interactivity and Fun of Characters

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss an interactivity and fun of characters. It is also our problems that whence comes the ‘fun’ or ‘amiability’ of a ‘character’? In this paper, we describe some popular characters and their notable features, and then discuss their interactivity, arguing first that decisive elements of the interactivity of a character are related to the narrativity of the character, and second that the ‘fun’ principally results from that interactivity.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Information Design, Kogakuin University, 1-24-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 163-8677, Japan

    Hisao Shiizuka

  2. Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Science, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-8577, Japan

    Ayako Hashizume

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Integrated Sensor Systems, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schroedinger-str. 12, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas König

  2. Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Dengel

  3. School of Business, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Riggenbachstr. 16, 4600, Olten, Switzerland

    Knut Hinkelmann

  4. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, 599-8531, Osaka, Japan

    Koichi Kise

  5. KES International, P.O. Box 2115, BN43 9AF, Shoreham-by-sea, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  6. University of South Australia, Adelaide, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Shiizuka, H., Hashizume, A. (2011). Interactivity and Fun of Characters. In: König, A., Dengel, A., Hinkelmann, K., Kise, K., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6883. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23854-3_21

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