Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents

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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	?
	Aug 31	Characters #1	An Empirical Evaluation of a Generative Method for the Expression of Personality Traits through Action Choice	?
4	Sep 4	Story Understanding #1	LISA: Lexically Intelligent Story Assistant	?
	Sep 7	Dialogue Generation #1	Characters Who Speak Their Minds: Dialogue Generation in Talk of the Town	?
5	Sep 11	Theory #1	Towards an Interaction Model for Interactive Narratives	?
	Sep 14	Brainstorming Jam
6	Sep 18	Proposal Writing Workshop
	Sep 21	Experience Management #2	Directing Intentional Superposition Manipulation	?
	TBD	Project Proposals Due by 17:00
7	Sep 25	Story Generation #2 / Characters #2	Character Beliefs in Story Generation	?
	Sep 28	Narrative Planning #2	Fast and Diverse Narrative Planning through Novelty Pruning	?
8	Oct 2	Player Modelling #2	Keeping the Player on an Emotional Trajectory in Interactive Storytelling	?
	Oct 5	Story Generation #3	PlotShot: Generating Discourse-Constrained Stories Around Photos	?
9	Oct 9	Characters #2	Increasing the Engagement of Conversational Agents through Co-Constructed Storytelling	?
	Oct 12	Player Modelling #3	Influencing User Choices in Interactive Narratives using Indexter's Pairwise Event Salience Hypothesis	?
10	Oct 16	Story Generation #4	Generate Believable Causal Plots with User Preferences Using Constrained Monte Carlo Tree Search	?
	Oct 19	Narrative Planning #3	Planning Graphs for Efficient Generation of Desirable Narrative Trajectories	?
11	Oct 23	Story Metrics #2	Best-Fit Action-Cost Domain Model Acquisition and Its Application to Authorship in Interactive Narrative	?
	Oct 26	Player Modelling #4	Optimizing Players’ Expected Enjoyment in Interactive Stories	?
11	Oct 30	Story Understanding #2	Reading Between the Lines: Using Plot Graphs to Draw Inferences From Stories	?
	Nov 2	Story Generation #5 / Story Understanding #3	Josep Valls-Vargas, Jichen Zhu and Santiago Ontañón. Towards End-to-end Natural Language Story Generation Systems	?
13	Nov 6	Project Work in Class