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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Sensorimotor neural systems for a predatory stealth behaviour camouflaging motion

Anderson, Andrew James January 2003 (has links)
No description available.
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Virtual identity as practice : exploring the relationship between role-players and their characters in the massively multiplayer online game 'Star Wars Galaxies'

Sveinsdottir, Thordis January 2008 (has links)
The objective of this research is firstly, to evaluate claims that cyberspace, due to its inherent qualities, has had an unprecedented effect on how we construct, present and think about our collective and individual identities online and offline. Secondly, it will highlight how people use shared understandings of popular culture products in order to maintain social formations in cyberspace.
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Pivoting the player : a methodological toolkit for player character research in offline role-playing games

Fizek, Sonia January 2012 (has links)
This thesis introduces an innovative method for the analysis of the player character (PC) in offline computer role-playing games (cRPGs). It derives from the assumption that the character constitutes the focal point of the game, around which all the other elements revolve. This underlying observation became the foundation of the Pivot Player Character Model, the framework illustrating the experience of gameplay as perceived through the PC's eyes. Although VG characters have been scrutinised from many different perspectives, a uniform methodology has not been formed yet. This study aims to fill that methodological void by systematising the hitherto research and providing a method replicable across the cRPG genre. The proposed methodology builds upon the research of characters performed in video games, fiction, film, and drama. It has been largely inspired by Anne Ubersfeld's semiological dramatic character research implemented in Reading Theatre I (1999). The developed theoretical model is applied to three selected cRPGs, which form an accurate methodological sample: The Witcher (CD Projekt RED 2007), Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios 2008), and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Troika Games 2004). The choice of the game genre has been incited by the degree of attention it draws to the player character's persona. No other genre features such a complex character development system as a computer role-playing game.
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User profiling on the basis of interactions with a computer game

Billings, Simon January 2013 (has links)
Adapting computer software to the individual user during run-time could offer substantial advantages over the current practice of tailoring software to groups of users during the development process (Stewart 2007; Charles et al. 2005; Charles & Black 2004; Houlette 2004). In order to achieve this, the computer requires information about the user, yet its ability to perceive them is severely limited (Suchman 2006 p.167; Fisher 2001). In an effort to address this shortcoming, this dissertation examines the potential for determining an individual’s personality through analysis of their interactions with commercial computer games – which, in common with cinema and literature, work on an underlying model of reality – as well as their performance in game elements using an underlying general intelligence factor, and their emotional state from visual and physiological cues. Through a program of original primary research, it demonstrates that data pertaining to several of the big five personality factors can be captured from interactions with a commercial computer game, and explores methods for predicting these personality traits using regression analysis and clustering techniques. It also employs a series of factor analyses to investigate the latent variables present in interactions with a computer role-playing game, as a foundation for further work.
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Les jeux vidéo américains de l’après 11 septembre 2001 : la guerre faite jeu, nouveau terrain de propagande idéologique ? / American video games after September 11, 2001 : The war made game, new field of ideological propaganda?

Cayatte, Rémi 20 October 2016 (has links)
Les jeux vidéo qui abordent de manière explicite ou détournée des événements réels transmettentune certaine vision de tels événements à leurs utilisateurs. Que ce soit à travers les éléments de récitsur lesquels ils reposent, les images portées à l’écran ou leurs spécificités ludiques, certains jeuxvidéo s’inspirent ainsi du réel autant qu’ils (re)construisent ce dernier par l’intermédiaire desexpériences de jeu qu’ils proposent.Afin de mieux cerner les rouages et les mécanismes de ces jeux, nous avons pu proposer dans cetravail une méthode d’analyse qui prend en compte l’ensemble des éléments (narratifs, audiovisuels et ludiques) qui les constituent. Nous avons pu ensuite appliquer cette méthode aux trois jeux Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2007-2011). Une fois l’étude de ces éléments formels réalisée, nous avons replacé ces jeux dans leurs contextes de production et de réception.Nous avons ainsi pu mettre en lumière le fait que, à l’exaltation de sentiments militaristes, guerriers, nationalistes et patriotiques, s’ajoute dans ces trois jeux une volonté assez nette de véhiculer une vision positive de l’engagement militaire américain à l’étranger et de l’adoption d’une doctrine de guerre préventive par les États-Unis au lendemain des attentats du 11 septembre 2001.Au-delà du travail réalisé sur les trois jeux Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, la méthode utilisée pour le mener à bien participe à proposer une approche qui prend en compte les multiples facettes de l’objet jeu vidéo pour en appréhender au mieux les possibilités de persuasion. / Video games that directly or indirectly address real events transmit a certain vision of such events to their users. Be it thanks to the narratives on which they are based, the images users interact with, or gameplay and game structure specificities, some video games are inspired by real events as much as they (re)build those through the play experiences that they propose.In order to better understand this dynamic, this dissertation proposes a method of analysis that takes into account the three key components that constitute video games (narrative, audiovisual, game and play). This method is then applied to the three Call of Duty: Modern Warfare games (2007-2011). The contexts of production and reception are also taken into account in this analysis.This dissertation highlights the fact that, in addition to the exaltation of a militaristic, nationalist and patriotic ethos, the three Call of Duty: Modern Warfare games strive to convey a particularly positive image of American military actions abroad and of the adoption of a preventive warfare doctrine in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.The method applied to this corpus of games is also meant to propose an approach to this medium that takes into account its globality and complexity in order to better understand its persuasive possibilities.
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Ανάπτυξη και αξιολόγηση ενός διαδραστικού ηλεκτρονικού παιχνιδιού με αφηγηματικό περιεχόμενο

Κούτρας, Θεόδωρος 18 June 2014 (has links)
Στόχος της εργασίας ήταν η ανάπτυξη και αξιολόγηση ενός διαδραστικού ηλεκτρονικού παιχνιδιού με αφηγηματικό περιεχόμενο. Για την μελέτη αυτή, αναπτύχθηκε ένα ηλεκτρονικό παιχνίδι περιπέτειας Point And Click τρίτου προσώπου σε γραφικό περιβάλλον (Third Person Point And Click Graphic Adventure Game), το οποίο υποστηρίζει την χρήση του από έναν παίκτη. Το παιχνίδι αυτό ανήκει σε ένα κλασσικό είδος παιχνιδιών που γνώρισαν μεγάλη άνθιση σε μία περίοδο από τα τέλη της δεκαετίας του 1980, μέχρι και τις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 2000, στα οποία ο παίκτης καλείται να λύσει γρίφους διαφόρων ειδών με στόχο την εξέλιξη της ιστορίας του παιχνιδιού. Το παιχνίδι που αναπτύχθηκε χρησιμοποιεί σαν βασικά στοιχεία την εξερεύνηση, την συλλογή στοιχείων και αντικειμένων από το περιβάλλον και τη συνομιλία με χαρακτήρες του παιχνιδιού με στόχο την επίλυση των γρίφων και τη συνέχιση της ιστορίας του παιχνιδιού. Η ανάπτυξη της εφαρμογής συνετελέσθη σειριακά ξεκινώντας με την συγγραφή της ιστορίας και ύστερα του σεναρίου του παιχνιδιού, πάνω στα οποία δημιουργήθηκαν οι γρίφοι. Ακολούθως άρχισε ο σχεδιασμός του παιχνιδιού ακολουθώντας ένα επαναληπτικό μοντέλο το οποίο περιελάμβανε τον προγραμματισμό, τη δημιουργία του καλλιτεχνικού κομματιού και τον επανασχεδιασμό διαφόρων σταδίων ανάπτυξης βασιζόμενοι μεταξύ άλλων και σε τεχνικές και μεθόδους αξιολόγησης. Η υλοποίηση πραγματοποιήθηκε για προσωπικού υπολογιστές με λειτουργικό σύστημα Windows της Microsoft, OS X της Apple και Linux. / The goal of the thesis was the development and evaluation of an interactive video game with narrative content.
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Du mythe au jeu : approche anthropo-communicationnelle du Nord : des récits médiévaux scandinaves au MMORPG Age of Conan : Hyborian Adventures / From Myth to Game : anthropo-Communicational Approach of the North : from the Medieval Scandinavian Stories to the MMORPG Age of Conan : Hyborian Adventures

Di Filippo, Laurent 04 November 2016 (has links)
Un rhinocéros Berserker, des hordes de Vanir déferlant sur la Cimmérie, le fils d’Ymir emprisonné... les références aux récits médiévaux scandinaves couramment désignés par les termes « mythes nordiques » sont nombreuses dans le jeu de rôle en ligne massivement multi-joueurs Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Mais, comment des éléments issus de sources presque millénaires sont-ils devenus des composantes d’une production vidéoludique contemporaine ? À partir de ce cas d’étude, l’auteur de ce travail s’intéresse, de façon plus générale, aux phénomènes culturels et à leurs dynamiques à travers leurs processus de transmission, de manifestation et d’appropriation. Pour ce faire, il s’appuie sur une démarche qualitative et empirique à la croisée des Sciences de l’information et de la communication et des Études scandinaves afin de développer une approche anthropo-communicationnelle, fortement imprégnée par les travaux en Anthropologie. Celle-ci se fonde sur une méthodologie à la fois linguistique, socio-historique, d’observation participante sur le temps long et un suivi de veille sur le temps très long. Elle permet de constater que, des manuscrits médiévaux aux jeux vidéo en ligne, en passant par la littérature de fantasy américaine des années 1930, le sens donné aux références aux ressources culturelles du passé est sans cesse transformé et construit en fonction de la situation dans laquelle elles sont manifestées. Ces dynamiques culturelles s’inscrivent alors au cœur de la problématique du changement et de la permanence et mettent en lumière les constructions d’un imaginaire du commun tout en remettant au centre de la réflexion le travail des acteurs / A berserker rhinoceros, hordes of Vanir swarming upon Cimmeria, Ymir’s son imprisoned … references to the medieval scandinavian stories often designated as « Norse myths » are numerous in the massively multi-player online rôle playing game Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. But, how could elements coming from sources which are almost a thousand years old become parts of a contemporary videogame ? From this case study, the author of this work takes a more general interest in cultural phenomenons and their dynamics through their transmission, manifestation and appropriation processes. In order to do this, he leans on a qualitative and empirical research which articulates communication studies with scandinavian studies in order to build an anthropo-communicational approach, which is strongly influenced by Anthropology. This approach is based on a multi-layered methodology which includes linguistics, socio-historical method, long term participant observation and very long term information monitoring. It allows to observe that, from the medieval manuscripts to online video games, through american fantasy literature from the 1930’s, the significations which people give to past cultural ressources are always transformed and built according to the situation in which they are expressed. Such cultural dynamics fall within the heart of research questions about change and permanence and highlight the ways by which an imaginary of the common is built at the same time as it puts the work of the social actors at the center of the reflection

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