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Acknowledgement

 ICTRegie is a compact, independent organisation consisting of a Supervisory Board, an Advisory Council, a director and a bureau. The Minister of Economic Affairs, and the Minister of Education, Culture and Science bear the political responsibility for ICTRegie. The organisation is supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and SenterNovem.

Publications theme 1: Modeling the virtual world

Publications wp 1.1 Automatic World Generation based on real data

Publications wp 1.2 Automatic Creation of Imaginary  Worlds

Publications wp 1.3 Affective Appraisal of Virtual Environments

 

Publications wp 1.1 Automatic World Generation based on real data

Kuijper, F., van Son, R., van Meurs, F., Smelik, R., and de Kraker, K.J. (2010), Techniques for Automatic Creation of Terrain Databases for Training and Mission Preparation, Proceedings of the IMAGE 2010 Conference, 12-15 July 2010, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

M. van Kreveld, T. van Lankveld, R. Veltkamp. Identifying well-covered minimal bounding rectangles in 2D point data. In: EuroCG'09, 25th European Workshop on Computational Geometry, pages 277-280, 2009.

M. van Kreveld, T. van Lankveld, R. Veltkamp. Identifying well-covered minimal bounding rectangles in 2D point data. In: Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2009.

 

Publications wp 1.2 Automatic Creation of Imaginary  Worlds in 2010

Tutenel, T., Smelik, R.M., Bidarra, R. and de Kraker, K.J. (2010) A Semantic Scene Description Language for Procedural Layout Solving Problems. To be published in: Proceedings of AIIDE 2010 - 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, October 11-13, Stanford, CA, USA. 

Bronsvoort WF, Bidarra R, van der Meiden HA, and Tutenel T (2010) The increasing role of semantics in object modeling. Computer-Aided Design and Applications 7(3): 431-440. 

Kuijper, F., van Son, R., van Meurs, F., Smelik, R., and de Kraker, K.J. (2010), Techniques for Automatic Creation of Terrain Databases for Training and Mission Preparation, Proceedings of the IMAGE 2010 Conference, 12-15 July 2010, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Smelik, R.M., Tutenel, T, de Kraker, K.J., and Bidarra, R. (2010) Integrating procedural generation and manual editing of virtual worlds. To be published in: Proceedings of FDG Workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Games, 18 June, Monterey, CA, USA

Smelik, R.M., Tutenel, T., de Kraker, K.J., and Bidarra, R. (2010) Interactive creation of virtual worlds using procedural sketching. Proceedings of Eurographics 2010 - Short papers, 3-7 May, Norrköping, Sweden

Ruben M. Smelik, Tim Tutenel, Klaas Jan de Kraker, and Rafael Bidarra, "Declarative Terrain Modeling for Military Training Games," International Journal of Computer Games Technology, vol. 2010, Article ID 360458, 11 pages, 2010. doi:10.1155/2010/360458

Bidarra, R, de Kraker, K.J., Smelik, R.M., and Tutenel, T. (2010) Integrating semantics and procedural generation: key enabling factors for declarative modeling of virtual worlds. In: Proceedings of FOCUS K3D Conference on Semantic 3D Media and Content, 11-12 February, Sophia Antipolis, France, pp. 51-55

Hendrickx, Q., Smelik, R.M., and Bidarra, R. (2010) Real-time rendering of river networks. In: Proceedings of I3D 2010 - ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Gaphics and Games, 19-21 February, Washington DC, USA

Publications wp 1.2 Automatic Creation of Imaginary  Worlds in 2009

Smelik, R.M., de Kraker, K.J., Tutenel, T., Bidarra, R., and Groenewegen, S. A. (2009). A Survey of Procedural Methods for Terrain Modelling. In Proceedings of the CASA Workshop on 3D Advanced Media In Gaming And Simulation (3AMIGAS), 16 June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Tutenel, T., Bidarra, R., Smelik, R.M., and de Kraker, K.J. (2009). Rule-based Layout Solving and its Application to Procedural Interior Generation. In Proceedings of the CASA Workshop on 3D Advanced Media In Gaming And Simulation (3AMIGAS), 16 June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Smelik, R.M., de Kraker, K.J., Tutenel, T., Bidarra, R. (2009). A Case Study on Procedural Modeling of Geo-Typical Southern Afghanistan Terrain. In Proceedings of the IMAGE 2009 Conference, 13-16 July, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Tutenel, T., Smelik, R.M., Bidarra, R. and de Kraker, K.J. (2009). Using Semantics to Improve the Design of Game Worlds. In Proceedings of AIIDE 2009 - 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 14-16 October, Stanford, CA, USA.

Kessing, J., Tutenel, T., and Bidarra, R. (2009). Services in Game Worlds: a Semantic Approach to Support Emergent Behavior in Object Interaction. In Proceedings of ICEC 2009 - International Conference on Entertainment Computing, 3-5 September, Paris, France.

Saskia A. Groenewegen, Ruben M. Smelik, Klaas Jan de Kraker, Rafael Bidarra (2009). Procedural Layout Generation Based On Urban Land Use Models. In Short Paper Proceedings of Eurographics 2009, Eurographics Association, Munich, 2009.

Publications wp 1.2 Automatic Creation of Imaginary  Worlds in 2008

T. Tutenel, K.J. de Kraker, R.M. Smelik and R. Bidarra. (2008). The Role of Semantics in Games and Simulations. Computers in Entertainment (CIE). Volume 6 , Issue 4  (December 2008).

R.M. Smelik, T. Tutenel, K.J. de Kraker, and R. Bidarra. (2008) A Proposal for a Procedural Terrain Modelling Framework. In Poster Proceedings of the 14th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments EGVE08, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 2008. 

R.M. Smelik, T. Tutenel, K.J. de Kraker and R.Bidarra (2008) A Proposal for a Procedural Terrain Modelling Framework Poster.

Publications WP 1.3 Affective Appraisal of Virtual Environments in 2009

Alexander Toet, Ph.D., Marloes van Welie, M.Sc., and Joske Houtkamp, Ph.D. (2009). Is a Dark Virtual Environment Scary? In Cyberpsychology & Behavior Volume 12, Number 4, 2009.

Joske M. Houtkamp, Stefan Colijn, Attractive Visualization Influences the Perceived Quality of the Living Environment, Proceedings van Visualisation, 2009 International Conference (pp.). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society.

Publications WP 1.3 Affective Appraisal of Virtual Environments in 2008

Houtkamp, J.M., Schuurink, E. & Toet, A. (2008). Thunderstorms in my Computer: The Effect of Visual Dynamics and Sound in a 3D Environment. In M. Bannatyne & J. Counsell (Eds.), Visualisation, 2008 International Conference (pp. 11-17). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society.

van der Spek, E.D.   Houtkamp, J.M. (2008) Mixing Emotions, How Physical Discomfort Influences the Affective Appraisal of Virtual Places. In M. Bannatyne & J. Counsell (Eds.), Visualisation, 2008 International Conference (pp. 18-22). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society.

Schuurink, E.L, Houtkamp, J & Toet, A. (2008). Engagement and EMG in Serious Gaming: Experimenting with Sound and Dynamics in the Levee Patroller Training Game. In P. Markopoulos et al. (Eds.),   Fun and Games, Second International Conference, Eindhoven,  The Netherlands, October 20-21, 2008. Proceedings},
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Publications WP 1.3 Affective Appraisal of Virtual Environments in 2007
 
Houtkamp, J.M., Spek, E.D. & Toet, A. (2007). The influence of lighting on the affective qualities of a virtual theater. In Predicting the Future,25th eCAADe Conference Proceedings (pp. 77-84). Frankfurt am Main. 

Houtkamp, J.M. & Van Oostendorp, H. (2007). Virtual vandalism: The effect of physical incivilities on the affective appraisal of 3D urban models. In E. Banissi & al. (Eds.), Information Visualization (pp. 559-566). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, Conference Publishing Services. 

Houtkamp, J.M. & Bos, F.A. (2007). Evaluation of a virtual scenario training for leading firefighters. In B. Van de Walle, P. Burghardt & C. Nieuwenhuis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management ISCRAM2007 (pp. 565-570). VUBPress.

Van der Spek, E.D., Bos, J.E., Van Emmerik, M.L., Houtkamp, J. and Toet, A.(2007) Cybersickness Affects the Affective Appraisal of a Virtual Environment. Proceedings of VIMS2007.