The Mirror of Transfiguration is an interactive media-art for showing native Canadians' spiritual image to children. It immerses its viewers into pictures of Canadian nature, and the viewers will transform into ones of the spiritual animals of Canadian ...

Inspired by the Danish tale Emperor's New Clothes and Lady Gaga's Orbit dress, we designed and implemented a wearable computing costume, Queen's New Clothes, which appears plain to naked eyes but exhibits changing patterns on photos taken at different ...

This demonstration is a showcase of an interactive storytelling (IS) game consisting of verbal conversations between two virtual agents and a user. It is the result of a University project in interactive media, based on the IS platform Scenejo. As novel ...

MaLaKuLa is an art installation to be discovered by people walking along the beach. It explores familiar nature elements in their natural context to build a poetical digital experience where the nature elements become interfaces for unexpected ...

This paper presents a demonstration of a pedagogical highly interactive drama, which provides the user with many choices on the course of the narrative, by controlling a character in an immersive 3D story.

In this paper, we propose Catapy - a car that provides the fun of chasing. Catapy itself is a palm-sized motorized car covered by a caterpillar track, and it is able to run across a field freely even on an irregular ground. The user can enjoy the ...

As of today, a lot of different approaches have been dealing with the presentation of art history resources on the Web. While the majority of these focused on traditional 2D methods of display, some did introduce the application of 3D visualization ...

This paper presents an evaluation of new media art project AV Clash. AV Clash is a Web-based artistic project that allows the creation of audiovisual compositions, consisting of combinations of animations with sounds retrieved from online database ...

This paper presents an approach for non-programming writers in Interactive Storytelling to structure interactive conversations in the authoring process to achieve high potential variability during interactions. At the same time, the presentation ...

In the context of an initiative to empower non-expert practitioners to perform sound design in games, we have been working on a collection of design patterns and in a deck of cards that function as tokens to those patterns.

The deck serves both ...

In this paper we describe a system for creating live musical expressions in a virtual studio environment. The underlying concept of this work is to provide casual and semi-professional users with a user experience that allow to easily create musical ...

In this paper we present a case study of a new mobile location-based game based on the creation of virtual communities against a backdrop of historical content. We describe the design, implementation and public pilot of the game, and present a ...

Sound and smell can sometimes generate stronger emotional feelings than words can. They can even sometimes awaken strong, long forgotten memories.

The Sound Perfume system provides users with additional auditory and olfactory sensory inputs through a ...