Agent-Based Modelling of Emotional Goals in Digital Media Design Projects

2018 ◽  
pp. 262-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Role Play ◽  
User Profiles ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Media Design ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
High Level

The author promotes agent-oriented models to identify, represent, and evaluate high-level abstractions of digital media design projects. The models include emotional goals, in addition to functional goals and quality goals, to describe feelings such as having fun, being engaged, and feeling cared for. To establish emotional goals, digital media design methods and processes were employed including the development of emotional scripts, user profiles, mood boards and followed an iterative creative design process. Using agent-oriented models proved to be highly successful not only to represent emotional goals such as fun, tension, and empathy but also to facilitate the ideation, creation, and progressive evaluation of projects. The design process supported communication between designers, developers, and other stakeholders in large multidisciplinary development teams by providing a shared language and a common artefact. The process is demonstrated by describing the development of Aspergion, a multiplayer online role play game that promotes respect for people with Asperger's Syndrome.

Agent-Based Modelling of Emotional Goals in Digital Media Design Projects

2018 ◽  
pp. 681-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Role Play ◽  
User Profiles ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Media Design ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
High Level

The authors promote agent-oriented models to identify, represent and evaluate high-level abstractions of digital media design projects. A major aspect is the introduction of emotional goals, in addition to functional goals and quality goals to describe feelings such as having fun, being engaged and feeling cared for. To establish emotional goals, digital media design methods and processes were employed including the development of emotional scripts, user profiles, mood boards and following an iterative participatory design process. This approach proved to be highly successful, not only to represent emotional goals such as fun, tension and empathy, but also to facilitate the ideation, creation and progressive evaluation of projects. The process supports communication between designers, developers and other stakeholders in large multidisciplinary development teams by providing a shared language and common artefact. The process is demonstrated in the development of a Multiplayer Online Role Play Game (MORPG) called Aspergion that promotes respect for people with Asperger's Syndrome.

Agent-Based Modelling of Emotional Goals in Digital Media Design Projects

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
User Profiles ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Media Design ◽  
Agent Based Modelling ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
High Level

The authors promote agent-oriented models to identify, represent and evaluate high-level abstractions of digital media design projects. A major aspect is the introduction of emotional goals, in addition to functional goals and quality goals to describe feelings such as having fun, being engaged and feeling cared for. To establish emotional goals, digital media design methods and processes were employed including the development of emotional scripts, user profiles, mood boards and following an iterative participatory design process. This approach proved to be highly successful, not only to represent emotional goals such as fun, tension and empathy, but also to facilitate the ideation, creation and progressive evaluation of projects. The process supports communication between designers, developers and other stakeholders in large multidisciplinary development teams by providing a shared language and common artefact. The process is demonstrated in the development of a Multiplayer Online Role Play Game (MORPG) called Aspergion that promotes respect for people with Asperger's Syndrome.

Digital Media Design Process and Workflow

2018 ◽  
pp. 35-68
Author(s):  
Alex Oliszewski ◽  
Daniel Fine ◽  
Daniel Roth
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Media Design

FROM DECISION TO ACTION: INTENTIONALITY, A GUIDE FOR THE SPECIFICATION OF INTELLIGENT AGENT'S BEHAVIOR

2006 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIERRE-ALEXANDRE FAVIER ◽  
PIERRE DE LOOR
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Agent Based Simulation ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Agent Model ◽  
Intentional Agent ◽  
High Level

This article introduces a reflection about behavioral specification for interactive and participative agent-based simulation in virtual reality. Within this context, it is necessary to reach a high level of expressiveness in order to enforce interactions between the designer and the behavioral model during the in-line prototyping. It is required to consider the needs of semantic very early in the design process. The intentional agent model is exposed here as a possible answer. It relies on a mixed imperative and declarative approach which focuses on the link between decision and action. The design of a tool able to simulate virtual environment implying agents based on this model is discussed.

scholarly journals Equity Effects of Congestion Charges: An Exploratory Analysis with MATSim

2017 ◽  
Vol 2670 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Meyer de Freitas ◽  
Oliver Schuemperlin ◽  
Milos Balac ◽  
Francesco Ciari
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Promising Tool ◽  
Travel Time Savings ◽  
Time Savings ◽  
Time Changes ◽  
High Level ◽  
Congestion Charging ◽  
Equity Effects

This paper shows an application of the multiagent, activity-based transport simulation MATSim to evaluate equity effects of a congestion charging scheme. A cordon pricing scheme was set up for a scenario of the city of Zurich, Switzerland, to conduct such an analysis. Equity is one of the most important barriers toward the implementation of a congestion charging system. After the challenges posed by equity evaluations are examined, it is shown that agent-based simulations with heterogeneous values of time allow for an increased level of detail in such evaluations. Such detail is achieved through a high level of disaggregation and with a 24-h simulation period. An important difference from traditional large-scale models is the low degree of correlation between travel time savings and welfare change. While traditional equity analysis is based on travel time savings, MATSim shows that choice dimensions not included in traditional models, such as departure time changes, can also play an important role in equity effects. The analysis of the results in light of evidence from the literature shows that agent-based models are a promising tool to conduct more complete equity evaluations not only of congestion charges but also of transport policies in general.

Digital Media Design Theories and Principles

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Florence Martin ◽  
Anthony Karl Betrus
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Design ◽  
Design Theories
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