Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents

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Week	Date	Topic	Paper/Game	Presenter
1	Aug 18	Introduction & Overview
2	Aug 22	Experience Management #1 / Player Modelling #1	A Computational Model of Perceived Agency in Video Games	David (Demo Talk)
	Aug 25	Character Behaviour #1	Thespian: Using Multi-Agent Fitting to Craft Interactive Drama	Ingibjörg
3	Aug 29	Narrative Planning #1	An Intent-Driven Planner for Multi-Agent Story Generation	?
	Sep 1	Dialogue Generation #1	Perceived or Not Perceived: Film Character Models for Expressive NLG	?
4	Sep 5	Backstory Generation #1	Finding Schrödinger’s Gun	?
	Sep 8	Character Behaviour #2	Authoring Background Character Responses to Foreground Characters	?
5	Sep 12	Common-sense Reasoning #1	A Semantic Foundation for Mixed-Initiative Computational Storytelling	?
	Sep 15	Brainstorming Jam
6	Sep 19	Cognitive Psychology #1	A Use of Flashback and Foreshadowing for Surprise Arousal in Narrative Using a Plan-Based Approach	?
	Sep 22	Experience Management #2	Paper: Façade: An Experiment in Building a Fully-Realized Interactive Drama; Game: Façade	?
	Sep 23	Project Proposals Due by 17:00
7	Sep 26	Experience Management #3	Believable Agents and Intelligent Story Adaptation for Interactive Storytelling	?
	Sep 29	Emergent Narrative #1	FearNot! - an experiment in emergent narrative	?
8	Oct 3	Emergent Narrative #2	Paper: Comme il Faut 2: A fully realized model for socially-oriented gameplay; Game: Prom Week	?
	Oct 6	Narrative Planning #2	Controlling Narrative Generation with Planning Trajectories: the Role of Constraints	?
9	Oct 10	Narrative Planning #3	Evaluating Planning-Based Experience Managers for Agency and Fun in Text-based Interactive Narrative	?
	Oct 13	Crowd-sourced Generation #1	Creative Help: A Story Writing Assistant	?
10	Oct 17	Crowd-sourced Generation #2	Story Generation with Crowdsourced Plot Graphs	?
	Oct 20	Cognitive Psychology #2	Achieving the Illusion of Agency	?
11	Oct 24	Player Modelling #2	Goal Recognition with Markov Logic Networks for Player-Adaptive Games	?
	Oct 27	Player Modelling #3	Data-Driven Personalized Drama Management	?
12	Oct 31	Procedural Content Generation #1	Experience-Driven Procedural Content Generation	?
	Nov 3	Topic TBD #1	Paper TBD	?
13	Nov 7	Topic TBD #2	Paper TBD	?