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Seth Cooper

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

58

Venues

10

Active years

2010–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

58 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026CHIPlaying the Imitation Game: How Perceived Generated Content Shapes Player Experience.Mahsa Bazzaz, Seth Cooper
2026FDGDynamic Crossword Difficulty via Reactive Puzzle Construction.Colan F. Biemer, Seth Cooper
2026FDGFill-in-the-Blank Microgames.Akash Surendran, Seth Cooper
2026FDGConstraint-Based Four-Dimensional Spacetime Blending of Learned Game Mechanics Along Orthogonal Planes.Akshar Vandara, Seth Cooper
2026FDGSpacetime Constraints for Continuous Gameplay.Akshar Vandara, Seth Cooper
2026GECCOQDA-VC: A Benchmark for Quality-Diversity Algorithms with Variable Constraints.Fiona Shyne, Seth Cooper
2025CHIFrom Locked Rooms to Open Minds: Escape Room Best Practices to Enhance Reflection in Extended Reality Learning Environments.Erica Kleinman, Rana Jahani, Eileen McGivney, Mehmet Kosa, Seth Cooper, Casper Harteveld
2025FDGAnalysis of Robustness of a Large Game Corpus.Mahsa Bazzaz, Seth Cooper
2025FDGLevel Generation with Constrained Expressive Range.Mahsa Bazzaz, Seth Cooper
2025FDGAnalysis of Uncertainty in Procedural Maps in Slay the Spire.Mahsa Bazzaz, Seth Cooper
2025FDGStuck in the Middle: Generating Levels without (or with) Softlocks.Seth Cooper, Mahsa Bazzaz
2025FDGComputational Tools for Table-Top Role-Playing Games: A Scoping Review.Fiona Shyne, Seth Cooper
2025ICIDSEngagement or Distraction? Examining the Impact of Narrative Elements and Player Audience on Experience of Logic Grid Puzzles.Fiona Shyne, Kaylah Facey, Seth Cooper
2024CHIA Design Framework for Reflective Play.Josh Aaron Miller, Kutub Gandhi, Matthew Alexander Whitby, Mehmet Kosa, Seth Cooper, Elisa D. Mekler, Ioanna Iacovides
2024FDGSolution Path Heuristics for Predicting Difficulty and Enjoyment Ratings of Roguelike Level Segments.Colan F. Biemer, Seth Cooper
2024FDGLiterally Unplayable: On Constraint-Based Generation of Uncompletable Levels.Seth Cooper, Mahsa Bazzaz
2024FDGSession details: Workshop on Eudaimonia in Digital Games.Seth Cooper, Samuel Hill
2024FDGAsynchronous Collaboration with Quality-Diversity Search in Human Computation Games.Nicholas Osborn, Seth Cooper
2024FDGAuthoring Games with Tile Rewrite Rule Behavior Trees.Jiayi Zhou, Chris Martens, Seth Cooper
2024GECCOGenerating Solvable and Difficult Logic Grid Puzzles.Fiona Shyne, Kaylah Facey, Seth Cooper
2023FDGSturgeon-GRAPH: Constrained Graph Generation from Examples.Seth Cooper
2023FDGSturgeon-MKIII: Simultaneous Level and Example Playthrough Generation via Constraint Satisfaction with Tile Rewrite Rules.Seth Cooper
2023FDGRe-trainable Procedural Level Generation via Machine Learning (RT-PLGML) as Game Mechanic.Seth Cooper, Emily Halina, Jichen Zhu, Matthew Guzdial
2023FDGWrapped in Story: The Affordances of Narrative for Citizen Science Games.Josh Aaron Miller, Katherine Buse, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Justin B. Siegel, Seth Cooper, Colin Milburn
2022CHIBarriers to Expertise in Citizen Science Games.Josh Aaron Miller, Seth Cooper
2022FDG"Philosophy is Seeped into Every Brick" - Weaving Reflective Elements into Mass-Market Games.Kutub Gandhi, Josh Aaron Miller, Seth Cooper
2022FDGThe Effects of Adaptive Procedural Levels on Engagement and Performance in an Educational Programming Game.Chaima Jemmali, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Seth Cooper
2022HCOMPPerformance of Paid and Volunteer Image Labeling in Citizen Science - A Retrospective Analysis.Kutub Gandhi, Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Scott Eustis, Sara Ann Wylie, Seth Cooper
2021FDGGram-Elites: N-Gram Based Quality-Diversity Search.Colan F. Biemer, Alejandro Hervella, Seth Cooper
2021FDGA Comparison of Augmented Reality and Browser Versions of a Citizen Science Game.Kutub Gandhi, Josh Aaron Miller, Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Archana Apte, Borna Fatehi, Sara Ann Wylie, Seth Cooper
2021FDGApplying Rapid Crowdsourced Playtesting to a Human Computation Game.Pratheep Kumar Paranthaman, Anurag Sarkar, Seth Cooper
2021FDGGenerating and Blending Game Levels via Quality-Diversity in the Latent Space of a Variational Autoencoder.Anurag Sarkar, Seth Cooper
2021PERCOMSignaligner Pro: A Tool to Explore and Annotate Multi-day Raw Accelerometer Data.Aditya Ponnada, Seth Cooper, Qu Tang, Binod Thapa-Chhetry, Josh Aaron Miller, Dinesh John, Stephen S. Intille
2020FDGSequential Segment-based Level Generation and Blending using Variational Autoencoders.Anurag Sarkar, Seth Cooper
2020FDGTile-o-Scope AR: An Augmented Reality Tabletop Image Labeling Game Toolkit.Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Borna Fatehi, Melanie Smith, Avery Rosenbloom, Josh Aaron Miller, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Sara Ann Wylie, Seth Cooper
2019CHITransforming Game Difficulty Curves using Function Composition.Anurag Sarkar, Seth Cooper
2019FDGExpertise and engagement: re-designing citizen science games with players' minds in mind.Josh Aaron Miller, Uttkarsh Narayan, Matthew Hantsbarger, Seth Cooper, Magy Seif El-Nasr
2019FDGUsing rating arrays to estimate score distributions for player-versus-level matchmaking.Anurag Sarkar, Seth Cooper
2019HCOMPGamification of Loop-Invariant Discovery from Code.Andrew T. Walter, Benjamin Boskin, Seth Cooper, Panagiotis Manolios
2018FDGRepurposing citizen science games as software tools for professional scientists.Seth Cooper, Amy L. R. Sterling, Robert Kleffner, William M. Silversmith, Justin B. Siegel
2018FDGMeet your match rating: providing skill information and choice in player-versus-level matchmaking.Anurag Sarkar, Seth Cooper
2018FDGComparing paid and volunteer recruitment in human computation games.Anurag Sarkar, Seth Cooper
2018RecSysThe art of drafting: a team-oriented hero recommendation system for multiplayer online battle arena games.Zhengxing Chen, Truong-Huy D. Nguyen, Yuyu Xu, Christopher Amato, Seth Cooper, Yizhou Sun, Magy Seif El-Nasr
2017CHITo Three or not to Three: Improving Human Computation Game Onboarding with a Three-Star System.Jacqueline Gaston, Seth Cooper
2017FDGEngagement effects of player rating system-based matchmaking for level ordering in human computation games.Anurag Sarkar, Michael Williams, Sebastian Deterding, Seth Cooper
2016CHIProactive Sensing for Improving Hand Pose Estimation.Dun-Yu Hsiao, Min Sun, Christy Ballweber, Seth Cooper, Zoran Popovic
2016DIGRAPlayer Rating Systems for Balancing Human Computation Games: Testing the Effect of Bipartiteness.Seth Cooper, Sebastian Deterding, Theo Tsapakos
2016SCALarge-scale finite state game engines.Matt Stanton, Sascha Geddert, Adrian Blumer, Paul Hormis, Andy Nealen, Seth Cooper, Adrien Treuille
2015CHIGamifying Research: Strategies, Opportunities, Challenges, Ethics.Sebastian Deterding, Alessandro Canossa, Casper Harteveld, Seth Cooper, Lennart E. Nacke, Jennifer R. Whitson
2015FDGNanocrafter: Design and Evaluation of a DNA Nanotechnology Game.Jonathan Barone, Colin Bayer, Rowan Copley, Nova Barlow, Matthew Burns, Sundipta Rao, Georg Seelig, Zoran Popovic, Seth Cooper
2014FDGUser behavior transformation through dynamic input mappings.Dun-Yu Hsiao, Seth Cooper, Christy Ballweber, Zoran Popovic
2013FDGAutomated redesign of local playspace properties.Aaron William Bauer, Seth Cooper, Zoran Popovic
2012CHIThe impact of tutorials on games of varying complexity.Erik Andersen, Eleanor O'Rourke, Yun-En Liu, Rich Snider, Jeff Lowdermilk, David Truong, Seth Cooper, Zoran Popovic
2012ECOOPVerification games: making verification fun.Werner Dietl, Stephanie Dietzel, Michael D. Ernst, Nathaniel Mote, Brian Walker, Seth Cooper, Timothy Pavlik, Zoran Popovic
2011FDGOn the harmfulness of secondary game objectives.Erik Andersen, Yun-En Liu, Rich Snider, Roy Szeto, Seth Cooper, Zoran Popovic
2011FDGAnalysis of social gameplay macros in the Foldit cookbook.Seth Cooper, Firas Khatib, Ilya Makedon, Hao L, Janos Barbero, David Baker, James Fogarty, Zoran Popovic, Foldit players
2011FDGFeature-based projections for effective playtrace analysis.Yun-En Liu, Erik Andersen, Rich Snider, Seth Cooper, Zoran Popovic
2010FDGThe challenge of designing scientific discovery games.Seth Cooper, Adrien Treuille, Janos Barbero, Andrew Leaver-Fay, Kathleen Tuite, Firas Khatib, Alex Cho Snyder, Michael Beenen, David Salesin, David Baker, Zoran Popovic