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Unfortunately, sexism and sexual harassment are common in both private online gaming and professional esports. It has been repeatedly questioned whether the operators of multiplayer games, platforms and esports leagues are taking sufficient measures to adequately protect users, players, children, young gamers, and esports athletes. When measures are taken, such as censoring sexist or offensive chat messages or banning users, they tend to be undifferentiated. This may be partly due to a lack of surveys, studies, and data. This paper therefore presents the results of two consecutive studies using the games Overwatch and Valorant, two of the world’s most popular multiplayer first-person shooters which are also played professionally in esports leagues. Participant observations were conducted on 28 Overwatch and Valorant game sessions in a first study and 120 Valorant game sessions in a second one. These sessions’ voice chats were transcribed, coded, and statistically evaluated. The results indicate that female gamers are harassed in every seventh Valorant game, ranging from questions about their gender to unsolicited affection to threats of or jokes about rape.
Providing public Extended Reality (XR) experiences can foster connections between people around the world. Even 34 years after German reunification, around a quarter of all West Germans have never visited East Germany. Following the examples of the Vilnius-Lublin Portal and the Telectroscope, this paper will therefore present the concept of a study that aims to connect East and West German cities through public XR experiences and to shed light on the German population’s acceptance of immersive XR in public spaces such as city centres.
This work demonstrates the potentials of procedural content generation (PCG) for games, focusing on the generation of specific graphic props (reefs) in an explorer game. We briefly portray the state-of-the-art of PCG and compare various methods to create random patterns at runtime. Taking a step towards the game industry, we describe an actual game production and provide a detailed pseudocode implementation showing how Perlin or Simplex noise can be used efficiently. In a comparative study, we investigate two alternative implementations of a decisive game prop: once created traditionally by artists and once generated by procedural algorithms. 41 test subjects played both implementations. The analysis shows that PCG can create a user experience that is significantly more realistic and at the same time perceived as more aesthetically pleasing. In addition, the ever-changing nature of the procedurally generated environments is preferred with high significance, especially by players aged 45 and above.
Advances in eye-tracking control for assistive robotic arms provide intuitive interaction opportunities for people with physical disabilities. Shared control has gained interest in recent years by improving user satisfaction through partial automation of robot control. We present an eye-tracking-guided shared control design based on insights from state-of-the-art literature. A Wizard of Oz setup was used in which automation was simulated by an experimenter to evaluate the concept without requiring full implementation. This approach allowed for rapid exploration of user needs and expectations to inform future iterations. Two studies were conducted to assess user experience, identify design challenges, and find improvements to ensure usability and accessibility. The first study involved people with disabilities by providing a survey, and the second study used the Wizard of Oz design in person to gain technical insights, leading to a comprehensive picture of findings.