Dr W Tang, Dr C Hargood
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Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
About the Project
While digital game technology has been widely adopted for different application domains such as healthcare, training and education, creating and making changes to bespoke games remain a big challenge. Game development using traditional design methods can add significant burden and costs to the research development process.
This project will investigate novel game scenario authoring methodologies, and explore a range of approaches and evaluation strategies for interactive editing and authoring of game scenarios in the context of character dialogues and game narratives. Specifically dialogue generations that give rise to in-game interactions will be investigated. Using the abstraction of scenario based training, dialogue authoring will create experiences where specific dramatic interactions between game characters will occur. This project will investigate the authoring and design considerations for game based training and aim to develop a node-based visual editing tool for scenario modification and variations with author-centric approaches. At each stage, HCI techniques may be required to evaluate the efficacy of the approaches developed.
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The MRes Fee Waive Scholarships are open to UK & EU candidates, who must demonstrate outstanding qualities and be motivated to complete an MRes in 12 months full-time.
The successful applicants must have a proven previous academic excellence (first class honours or equivalent). An IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 minimum (or equivalent) is essential for candidates for whom English is not their first language.
Additional Eligibility Criteria: BSc in Computer Graphics, Visualisation, Games or Computer Science.
In addition to satisfying the basic entry criteria, BU will look closely at the qualities, skills and background of each candidate and what they can bring to their chosen research project in order to ensure successful completion.
Funding Notes
The MRes Fee Waive Scholarships will provide a full tuition fee waive for up to 12 months.
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