Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006: 5th International Conference, Cambridge, UK, September 20-22, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4161))

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2006. The 17 revised full papers, 17 revised short papers and 28 poster papers presented together with one keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on agents, cultural and psychological metrics, transforming broadcast experience, culture, place, play, display technology, authoring tools, object tracking, edutainment, and network games.

From the reviews:

"This book is a timely anthology of ongoing research reports from more than 60 entertainment computing laboratories around the globe. ... An anthropologist looking back on this ICEC 2006 volume will find a practical survey of adiabatic synthesis from the theoretical expectations of development specialists and cutting-edge product creators. This is a collective expression of those technical features that today’s researchers personally would like incorporated into their favorite entertainment products ... ." (Chaim Scheff, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (2), February, 2008)