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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2008, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in September 2008, under the auspices of IFIP. The 26 revised full papers and

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Scott M. Stevens Shirley J. Saldamarco (Eds.)

Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2008 7th International Conference Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 25-27, 2008 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Scott M. Stevens Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center and Human Computer Interaction Institute Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA E-mail: [email protected] Shirley J. Saldamarco Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008938141 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.5, H.4, H.3, I.2, I.3, I.7, J.5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

The 7th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, under the auspices of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), was held September 25–27, 2008 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Based on the very successful first international workshop (IWEC 2002) and the following international conferences (ICEC 2003 through ICEC 2007), ICEC 2008 was an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge amongst researchers and developers in the field of en