Models for Life in Virtual Game Worlds: concept pic for playtest of wom

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concept pic for playtest of wom

concept pic for playtest of wom
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: Name: Mirjam Palosaari-Eladhari; Location: Visby + Stockholm, Sweden

Im tied to two institutions, the Department of Technology Art and New Media at Gotland University in Sweden, where I have a doctoral studentship, and to the School of Computing at the University of Teesside in England, which is the examining institution for my PHD work. Currently I am a visiting scholar at the Expressive Intelligence studio at UC Santa Cruz. My primary research focus is story construction, characterization and identity in massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). My thesis is that deeper characterization, or more elaborate identity development of player characters, is key for achieving even more meaningful play experiences in virtual game worlds. As an experiment I implement a software module that I call the Mind Module, which is architecture for semi-autonomous expressive avatars. Imagine that you, when you play an MMORPG, not only get a virtual body, but also a virtual mind. I do my research in the field of computing science, in the areas of virtual humans, believable agents and expressive artificial intelligence.

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"Narrative Structure in Trans-Reality Role-Playing Games: Integrating Story Construction from Live Action, Table Top and Computer-Based Role-Playing Games", by Lindley, C. and Eladhari, M. International DiGRA Conference: Changing Views: Worlds in Play,, June 16 - 20 2005, Vancouver, Canada.

Story construction and expressive agents in virtual game worlds by Eladhari, M. and Lindley, C. Other players - a conference on multiplayer issues, December 6 - 8, 2004 IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

"Historiekonstruktion i virtuella spelvÃ¤rldar", Eladhari, M. p 99 - 117 in Tidskrift fÃ¶r litteraturvetenskap 3-4 2004 , edited by Dahlberg, L., ISSN: 1104-0556

Player Character Design Facilitating Emotional Depth in MMORPGs by Eladhari, M. and Lindley, C. Digital Games Research Conference 2003, 4-6 November 2003 University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Trends in MMOG Developement Eladhari, M. Game Research, May 2003,

Causal Normalisaton: A Methodology for Coherent Story Logic Design in Computer Role-Playing Games. Lindley C and Eladhari M.,Computers and Games Conference, Alberta, Canada. 25th - 27th July 2002.

Object Oriented Story Construction in Story Driven Computer Games Eladhari M. 2002 Masters Thesis. (translation)
Objektorienterat berättande i berättelsedrivna datorspel (original Swedish version),

Work preceeding this thesis that I did at the Zero Game Studio, Interactive Institute