At the Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games 2013, Yinxuan (Chloe) Shi and Dr. Roger Crawfis received the Best Paper Award in the category of Design and Serious Games for their work titled, "Optimal Cover Placement Against Static Enemy Positions." This award was given based on the recommendations from the program committee and the votes of the attendees of the conference.
The research Shi and Crawfis are doing aids the game level designers with deciding where to place obstacles and cover in first person shooter games. Their work defines the most optimal position so, as the game player follows a path, she/he will experience the best game play based on different parameters, i.e., longest path, and/or amount difficulty/danger, when the enemy is in fixed positions.
Yinxuan Shi is a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She recieved her BS degree in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2010. Her research interest lies in procedural content generation for computer games, computer graphics and computational fluid dynamics. She has worked on the project of Canyon Adventure(Game as physical therapy for stoke patients) and Virtual Temporal Bone Surgery: Defining and Translating Standardized Metrics to an Automated Assessment Tool.