Edward Franklin Melcer

Addressing Anxiety Through Games: A Review of Therapeutic Design Strategies

Annie Zhang, Hongwei Zhou, Kim G. C. Hellemans, Edward Franklin Melcer

While video games show promise as tools for treating anxiety, the therapeutic strategies embedded in their designs remain underexplored. This paper presents an analysis of 13 academic and commercial games developed to address symptoms of Anxiety Disorders. We apply the Comparative Psychotherapy …

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Serious Games for Cognitive Bias Mitigation: A Review of Learning Mechanisms and Design Approaches

Joey Villeneuve, Hongwei Zhou, Edward Franklin Melcer

Serious games have shown promise in mitigating cognitive biases, but existing designs differ in how they conceptualize debiasing and learning. To map this design space, we conducted a directed qualitative content analysis of 16 bias mitigation games across four dimensions: learning foundations, …

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Comparative Evaluation of Large Language Models for Surgical Case Creation

Connie Y. Gan, Megan Chan, Nitasha Sharma, Simeng Wang et autres

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Game as Inquiry: A Diffractive and Experimental Approach for Games with a Message

Hongwei Zhou, Edward Franklin Melcer, Sonia Chiasson

This extended abstract proposes the lens of game as inquiry to envision a game design process that sits at the intersection of educational games and humanistic understanding of games.It is both a theoretical proposal as well as a recounting of authors' experiences …

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Quantifying the Impact of a Wildfire Game on Changes in "Feelings of Preparedness" for a Wildfire Evacuation

MJ Johns, Tristyn Lai, Sonia Murugesh, Ella-Blue Wilmot et autres

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Multi-Institutional Analysis of Entrust Performance With Competency-Based Surgical Education Metrics

Nathan Lam, May C. Tee, Christine E. Nembhard, Y. K. Son et autres

OBJECTIVE: As the American Board of Surgery (ABS) implements Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) and shifts to a competency-based medical education paradigm, there is ongoing need for objective, evidence-based assessment tools to augment microassessments and inform readiness for entrustment. ENTRUST is an online …

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A Music Information Retrieval Approach to Classify Sub-Genres in Role Playing Games

Daeun Hwang, Xuyuan Cai, Edward Franklin Melcer, Elín Carstensdóttir

Video game music (VGM) is often studied under the same lens as film music, which largely focuses on its theoretical functionality with relation to the identified genres of the media. However, till date, we are unaware of any systematic approach that analyzes …

Unlocking Collaborative Creativity: Co-Design Smartwatch-Based Serious Games for Sleep Hygiene Intervention

Zilu Liang, Nhung Huyen Hoang, Edward Franklin Melcer, D. Hwang

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Searching Playtrace Data to Identify and Evaluate Dramatic Arcs in Game Systems

Samuel Shields, Noah Wardrip–Fruin, Edward Franklin Melcer

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FighterDDA: A Simulation Testbed for Evaluating Director-Based Dynamic Balancing

Samuel Shields, Edward Franklin Melcer

While AI Directors have been widely studied, less attention has been paid to how different director styles can coexist in a single game environment with divergent design goals. This paper presents FighterDDA, a simulation testbed designed to evaluate dynamic balancing strategies aimed …

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Designer Difficulties: Visualizing the Possibility Spaces of Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment Systems

Samuel Shields, Oliver Withington, Edward Franklin Melcer

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (DDA) systems procedurally tune video games during runtime to deliver a designer-specified, balanced gameplay experience for players. DDA systems have been well-studied and deployed in both academic and industry contexts. However, a relatively unexplored challenge of DDA systems is …

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Wildfire Games: A Community Approach to Designing Serious Games as Interventions for Wildfire Preparedness

MJ Johns, Mário Escarce, Alison Crosby, Yiyang Lu et autres

As wildfires increasingly threaten communities worldwide, those at risk can benefit from community-centric approaches to designing interventions. A multi-layered approach can make members of the community powerful co-designers by incorporating their ideas alongside insights from experts and designers to successfully create and …

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