TY  - JOUR
A1  - Steinhaeusser, Sophia C.
A1  - Oberdörfer, Sebastian
A1  - von Mammen, Sebastian
A1  - Latoschik, Marc Erich
A1  - Lugrin, Birgit
T1  - Joyful adventures and frightening places – designing emotion-inducing virtual environments
JF  - Frontiers in Virtual Reality
N2  - Virtual environments (VEs) can evoke and support emotions, as experienced when playing emotionally arousing games. We theoretically approach the design of fear and joy evoking VEs based on a literature review of empirical studies on virtual and real environments as well as video games’ reviews and content analyses. We define the design space and identify central design elements that evoke specific positive and negative emotions. Based on that, we derive and present guidelines for emotion-inducing VE design with respect to design themes, colors and textures, and lighting configurations. To validate our guidelines in two user studies, we 1) expose participants to 360° videos of VEs designed following the individual guidelines and 2) immerse them in a neutral, positive and negative emotion-inducing VEs combining all respective guidelines in Virtual Reality. The results support our theoretically derived guidelines by revealing significant differences in terms of fear and joy induction.
KW  - virtual reality
KW  - virtual environments
KW  - immersion
KW  - emotions
KW  - design
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-284831
SN  - 2673-4192
VL  - 3
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Truman, Samuel
A1  - von Mammen, Sebastian
T1  - Interactive Self-Assembling Agent Ensembles
T2  - Proceedings of the 1st Games Technology Summit
N2  - In this paper, we bridge the gap between procedural content generation (PCG) and user-generated content (UGC) by proposing and demonstrating an interactive agent-based model of self-assembling ensembles that can be directed though user input. We motivate these efforts by considering the opportunities technology provides to pursue game designs based on according game design frameworks. We present three different use cases of the proposed model that emphasize its potential to (1) self-assemble into predefined 3D graphical assets, (2) define new structures in the context of virtual environments by self-assembling layers on the surfaces of arbitrary 3D objects, and (3) allow novel structures to self-assemble only considering the model’s configuration and no external dependencies. To address the performance restrictions in computer games, we realized the prototypical model implementation by means of an efficient entity component system (ECS). We conclude the paper with an outlook on future steps to further explore novel interactive, dynamic PCG mechanics and to ensure their efficiency.
KW  - procedural content generation
KW  - user-generated content
KW  - game mechanics
KW  - agent-based models
KW  - self-assembly
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-246032
ER  -