The Adaptive Media Lab explores how to create digital media experiences that tailor themselves to individual users. These adaptations may occur for dramatic purposes (e.g. interactive narrative), educational purposes (e.g. serious games), and / or purely for entertainment. This research involves work in design, artificial intelligence, and human computer interaction.
Current Projects
Adaptive games are games that personalize to your needs and desires. Using techniques such as machine learning and data mining, these games respond to players in dynamic ways during gameplay. This dynamic response can help players stay engaged in the game’s content, having implications to produce entertaining and learning experiences.
The Digital Tabletop is a website dedicated to understanding board games and their implications for designing digital games. A bi-campus group, encompassing both Georgia Tech and Michigan State, we have weekly play sessions to analyze board games. We publish our findings to our blog as we try to find design principles that can flow from board games into digital games (and back).
Narrative in the digital realm is not the same as reading a book or watching a movie. Interactivity, the act of sending inputs and receiving relevant feedback, is a property of digital media that has become a ubiquitous term. Interactive narrative is narrative told where the reader (user or player) can have an effect on the narrative being presented to them, thus becoming a narrator themselves.
This current work focuses on the creation of 3D virtual worlds of ecosystems threatened by environmental change. These virtual worlds can then be used to education, awareness, and scientific visualization.
Recent News
06-09-2009
The blog was discarded and we instead created static pages for our lab’s information.
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