8 papers
From Design Principles to Prototype: A Game for Students with ADHD and Learning Disabilities Transitioning to Post-Secondary Education
Avery Keuben, Talaal Irtija, Joseph Tandyo +7
Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Learning Disabilities (LD) can face significant academic, social, and organizational challenges when transitioning…
Towards Smart Manufacturing Metaverse via Digital Twinning in Extended Reality
Hui Yang, Faisal Aqlan, Richard Zhao
The rapid evolution of modern manufacturing systems is driven by the integration of emerging metaverse technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), digital twin (DT) with dif…
From Frustration to Fun: An Adaptive Problem-Solving Puzzle Game Powered by Genetic Algorithm
Matthew McConnell, Richard Zhao
This paper explores adaptive problem solving with a game designed to support the development of problem-solving skills. Using an adaptive, AI-powered puzzle game, our adaptive prob…
From Unstable to Playable: Stabilizing Angry Birds Levels via Object Segmentation
Mahdi Farrokhimaleki, Parsa Rahmati, Richard Zhao
Procedural Content Generation (PCG) techniques enable automatic creation of diverse and complex environments. While PCG facilitates more efficient content creation, ensuring consis…
A Rhythm-Aware Phrase Insertion for Classical Arabic Poetry Composition
Mohamad Elzohbi, Richard Zhao
This paper presents a methodology for inserting phrases in Arabic poems to conform to a specific rhythm using ByT5, a byte-level multilingual transformer-based model. Our work disc…
Enhancing Two-Player Performance Through Single-Player Knowledge Transfer: An Empirical Study on Atari 2600 Games
Kimiya Saadat, Richard Zhao
Playing two-player games using reinforcement learning and self-play can be challenging due to the complexity of two-player environments and the possible instability in the training…