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Multiple virtual rafts: a multi-user paradigm for interacting with communities of autonomous characters

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Bill Tomlinson,

Jesse Gray,

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CHI EA '05: CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1833 - 1836

https://doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1057034

Published: 02 April 2005 Publication History

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This paper describes a multi-user version of the "Virtual Raft Project" being exhibited in the Interactivity Program at CHI 2005. The Virtual Raft Project is an interactive installation in which communities of autonomous animated characters inhabit desktop "virtual islands." A human participant may transport the characters between the islands via a mobile device-based "virtual raft." This paper describes an implementation of a multi-user version of this project, in which several virtual rafts may be used simultaneously to carry characters among the islands. The multi-user experience improves on the single-user original in four ways: increased throughput, increased collaboration among the participants, increased enjoyment for the participants, and the introduction of a new mode of interaction (characters jumping directly from one raft to another). This paper also provides a preliminary evaluation of the entire system through observations from a deployment of the Virtual Raft Project to approximately two hundred people.

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Multiple virtual rafts: a multi-user paradigm for interacting with communities of autonomous characters
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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Coe JChen MMynatt ESchoner DFitzpatrick GHudson SEdwards KRodden T(2010)Making friends by killing themCHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1753846.1754017(3553-3558)Online publication date: 9-Apr-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1753846.1754017
Dourish PHayes GIrani LLee CLindtner SNardi BPatterson DTomlinson BCzerwinski MLund ATan D(2008)Informatics at UC IrvineCHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1358628.1358907(3651-3656)Online publication date: 5-Apr-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1358628.1358907
Xin MSharlin ESousa MGreenberg SSamavati FInakage MLee NTscheligi MBernhaupt RNatkin S(2007)Purple crayonProceedings of the international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology10.1145/1255047.1255091(208-211)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1255047.1255091

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