Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents

Please note that this schedule is subject to change.

Week	Date	Topic	Paper/Game	Presenter
1	Aug 19	Introduction & Overview		David
	Aug 21	Experience Management #1	A Computational Model of Perceived Agency in Video Games	David
2	Aug 26	Agent-Based Systems #1	Thespian: Using Multi-Agent Fitting to Craft Interactive Drama	Kári
	Aug 28	Narrative Planning #1	An Intent-Driven Planner for Multi-Agent Story Generation	Valdi
3	Sep 2	Dialogue Generation #1	Perceived or Not Perceived: Film Character Models for Expressive NLG	Sigurrós
	Sep 4	Crowd-sourced Generation #1	Paper: The Restaurant Game: Learning Social Behavior and Language from Thousands of Players Online; Game: The Restaurant Game	Stefán
4	Sep 9	Cognitive Psychology #1	A Use of Flashback and Foreshadowing for Surprise Arousal in Narrative Using a Plan-Based Approach	Kári
	Sep 11	Procedural Content Generation #1	Experience-Driven Procedural Content Generation	David
5	Sep 16	Brainstorming Jam
	Sep 18	Related Work for Project Ideas	Each student finds and reviews one project-related paper.	In-class Discussion
6	Sep 23	Experience Management #2	Paper: Façade: An Experiment in Building a Fully-Realized Interactive Drama; Game: Façade	Sigurrós
	Sep 24	Project Proposals Due by 17:00 (pushed back from Sep 19)
	Sep 25	Experience Management #3	Believable Agents and Intelligent Story Adaptation for Interactive Storytelling	Stefán
7	Sep 30	Agent-Based Systems #2	Paper: Comme il Faut 2: A fully realized model for socially-oriented gameplay; Game: Prom Week	Valdi
	Oct 2	Agent-Based Systems #3	FearNot! - an experiment in emergent narrative	David
8	Oct 7	Narrative Planning #2	Controlling Narrative Generation with Planning Trajectories: the Role of Constraints	Kári
	Oct 9	Narrative Planning #3	Evaluating Planning-Based Experience Managers for Agency and Fun in Text-based Interactive Narrative	David
9	Oct 14	Dialogue Generation #2	Say Anything: A Massively Collaborative Open Domain Story Writing Companion	Valdi
	Oct 16	Crowd-sourced Generation #2	Story Generation with Crowdsourced Plot Graphs	David
10	Oct 21	Cognitive Psychology #2	Achieving the Illusion of Agency	Stefán
	Oct 23	Player Modelling #1	Goal Recognition with Markov Logic Networks for Player-Adaptive Games	Sigurrós
11	Oct 28	Player Modelling #2	Data-Driven Personalized Drama Management	David
	Oct 30	Summary & Young Research Highlights		David
12	Nov 4	Project Work
	Nov 6	Project Work