Cognitive tasks and collaborative agents for microadaptive game activities

Abstract

Motivation -Activities in video games should be made more interactive to be motivating and meaningful.

Designing Virtual Experiments in the Context of Marine Sciences

“…For instance, simulation games structure content in missions, feature non-player characters as 'advisors', the game world as a cognitive map, or provide cognitive cues [3]. In order to structure discovery learning activities, we have begun to apply cognitive task analysis to simulation and game environments [4]. Results would be typical sequences of learner actions in a specific lab -'good' sequences, 'bad' sequences, etc.…”

Integrating Cognitive Tasks in Game Acitivities

“…Both, combat and crafting, consist of sequences or series of activities. Our investigation of systems showed that the activity combat is focused in most commercial RPGs [10]. Unfortunately, crafting and similar associated occupations (e.g.…”

“…are often underdeveloped (e.g. Drakensang, Dragon Age, see [10]). Generally it can be said that crafting, as realized by a lot of games, is seemingly not designed to motivate players.…”

“…It might for example be used by a collaborative agent, which assists the user. The agent uses a guide pattern [10], which is constructed based on reusable agent behaviors.…”