Maria Aufheimer
Visiting Graduate Student, NPCs and 3D Modeling

Maria is a Media Informatics Master's student from Ulm University, Germany. Besides her studies, she is interested in researching the effects of non-player character design on players, especially those of villains and antagonists. As a visiting student, her goal is to develop her skills by working with experienced researchers.
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Publications
Year 2018
Exploring the Role of Non-Player Characters and Gender in Player Identification
Katja Rogers, Maria Aufheimer, Michael Weber, and Lennart E. Nacke. 2018. Exploring the Role of Non-Player Characters and Gender in Player Identification. In Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '18 Extended Abstracts. Melbourne, VIC, Australia. ACM, 271-283. doi:10.1145/3270316.3273041
Towards the Visual Design of Non-Player Characters for Narrative Roles
Katja Rogers, Maria Aufheimer, Michael Weber, and Lennart E. Nacke. 2018. Towards the Visual Design of Non-Player Characters for Narrative Roles. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2018. Toronto, ON Canada. 154-161. doi:10.20380/GI2018.21
Year 2016
Bool the Miner: Relying on Ghost Companions to Solve Boolean Equations

Maria Aufheimer, Johannes Bonenberger, David Klein, Imin Kurashvili, and Katja Rogers. 2016. Bool the Miner: Relying on Ghost Companions to Solve Boolean Equations. In Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts (CHI PLAY Companion '16). New York, NY, USA. ACm, 25-31. doi:10.1145/2968120.2968122