Rina Wehbe, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Why do we care if our teammates are not human? This study seeks to uncover whether or not the perception of other players as human or artificial entities can influence player experience. We use both deception and a between-participants blind study design to reduce bias in our experiment.
Haifeng Xu, PhD candidate
Computer Science Department, University of Southern California
Strategic interactions among self-interested agents (a.k.a., games) are ubiquitous, ranging from economic activity in daily life and the Internet to defender-adversary interactions in national security. A key variable influencing agents' strategic decision making is the information they have available about their environment as well as the preferences and actions of others.
Daniel Recoskie, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science