Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
Week
Date
Topic
Paper/Game
Presenter
1
Aug 17
Introduction & Overview
2
Aug 21
Experience Management #1 / Player Modelling #1
A Computational Model of Perceived Agency in Video Games
David (Demo Talk)
Aug 24
Story Generation #1 / Narrative Planning #1
Delayed Roles with Authorable Continuity in Plan-based Interactive Storytelling
David (Demo Talk)
3
Aug 28
Story Metrics #1
Towards a Computational Measure of Plot Tellability
Dennis
Aug 31
Characters #1
An Empirical Evaluation of a Generative Method for the Expression of Personality Traits through Action Choice
Carl
4
Sep 4
Narrative Planning #2
Fast and Diverse Narrative Planning through Novelty Pruning
Bjarki
Sep 7
Dialogue Generation #1
Characters Who Speak Their Minds: Dialogue Generation in Talk of the Town
Dario
5
Sep 11
Player Modelling #2
Keeping the Player on an Emotional Trajectory in Interactive Storytelling
Benedikt
Sep 14
Brainstorming Jam
Note: Special Room this day only: M304!
6
Sep 18
Proposal Writing Workshop
Sep 21
Experience Management #2
Directing Intentional Superposition Manipulation
Valerie
TBD
Project Proposals Due by 17:00
7
Sep 25
Project Proposal Discussions
Sep 28
Player Modelling #3
Optimizing Players’ Expected Enjoyment in Interactive Stories
Dennis
8
Oct 2
Characters #2
Increasing the Engagement of Conversational Agents through Co-Constructed Storytelling
Carl
Oct 5
Story Generation #3
Generate Believable Causal Plots with User Preferences Using Constrained Monte Carlo Tree Search
Bjarki
9
Oct 9
Story Generation #3 / Characters #2
Character Beliefs in Story Generation
Dario
Oct 12
Player Modelling #4
Influencing User Choices in Interactive Narratives using Indexter's Pairwise Event Salience Hypothesis
Benedikt
10
Oct 16
David away - Work on Project
Oct 19
Narrative Planning #3
Planning Graphs for Efficient Generation of Desirable Narrative Trajectories
Valerie?
11
Oct 23
Project Progress Discussions
Oct 26
Story Understanding #2
Reading Between the Lines: Using Plot Graphs to Draw Inferences From Stories
?
12
Oct 30
Authoring Tools #1 (INT Practice)
Mimisbrunnur: AI-assisted Authoring for Interactive Storytelling
Ingibergur
Nov 2
Project Progress Discussions
13
Nov 6
AIIDE/INT Practice Talk(s)
Toward a Unified Understanding of Experience Management
David