Argax Project: Thesis

Status/Completed:

Aug 2011: Started CS Masters program
Feb 2012: Started Skald project site
May 2012: Completed interaction design (as HCI course project)
Aug 2012: Started implementation
Mar 2013: Committe formed
Dec 2013: Ran evaluation study
Feb 2015: Completed document
Feb 2015: Defense
May 2015: Graduation

MS Thesis

Documents

Skald: An Affordance-based User Interface for Interactive Fiction (PDF, 1 MB)

Supporting Materials

HTML Thesis Draft (outline/multiple HTML pages)
Thesis Defense Slides (HTML, 27 Feb 2015)
Evaulation study data (ZIP, 3.6 MB)

Skald Code

Skald project site (including source code)
Skald as TADS library if you want to try using Skald in your own TADS game (ZIP, 0.5 MB)

Games

Play games online
Download games (.t3 files) and source code (ZIP, 4.1 MB)

Thesis Committee

Dr. Scott Roberston -- Advisor/Committee Chair (ICS)
Dr. Kim Binsted -- Committee Member (ICS)
Dr. John Zuern -- Outside Committee Member (ENG)