3 papers
cs.HC2025
Designing Virtual Reality Games for Grief: A Workshop Approach with Mental Health Professionals
Amina Kobenova, Piper Stickler, ThaÃs Alvarenga +1
Although serious games have been increasingly used for mental health applications, few explicitly address coping with grief as a core mechanic and narrative experience for patients…
cs.HC2024
Making Beshbarmak: Games for Central Asian Cultural Heritage
Amina Kobenova, Adina Kaiymova
This paper introduces "Making Beshbarmak", an interactive cooking game that celebrates the nomadic ancestry and cultural heritage of Central Asian communities worldwide. Designed t…
cs.HC2024
Social Conjuring: Multi-User Runtime Collaboration with AI in Building Virtual 3D Worlds
Amina Kobenova, Cyan DeVeaux, Samyak Parajuli +3
Generative artificial intelligence has shown promise in prompting virtual worlds into existence, yet little attention has been given to understanding how this process unfolds as so…