[Lisa_teatalk] Tea Talk Today!

Aaron Courville aaron.courville at gmail.com
Thu Sep 23 06:16:33 EDT 2010


Hi All,

Today we will hear from Olivier Delalleau. He'll be talking about his
recent work with Ubisoft. Hope to see you there.

Date and Time: Thursday September 23, 2010 (Today) at 14h30
Location: LISA lab (AA3195)

Title:
Player Modeling in a First Person Shooter: Bridging the Gap between
Casual and Power Gamers

Abstract:

Player-vs-Player (PvP) in multiplayer online games typically appeals
mostly to the more "hardcore" gaming audience. This is because reaching
a skill level that makes you competitive vs. other dedicated gamers can
require a lot of practice. More casual players who may not have a lot of
previous online experience thus often give up on PvP, focusing instead
on cooperative or solo gameplay. We present a player modeling approach
for a First Person Shooter game where the goal is to provide the player
with feedback on how to improve his playstyle. The objective is to make
online play more "casual-friendly" by providing sensible tips and
encouraging the player into not throwing the game out of the window.
Other applications of this approach include analyzing player behavior
for better level design, as well as for better categorization and
understanding of the various playstyles.
This ongoing research at Ubisoft has been performed in collaboration
with Yoshua Bengio, Philippe Hamel, Guillaume Desjardins, Pierre-Antoine
Manzagol, François Savard and Yann Dauphin, and a bunch of people from
Ubisoft whose names are super-top-secret.


Cheers,
Aaron

-- 
Aaron C. Courville
Département d’Informatique et
de recherche opérationnelle
Université de Montréal
email:Aaron.Courville at gmail.com


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