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Paper and Game of the Week

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This past week I attended (and co-chaired, organized a workshop for, and presented at) the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling ( ICIDS ). In celebration of a successful ICIDS, I'll share a Paper and Game of the Week each of which I discovered during it. Paper of the Week: "Using BDI to Model Players Behaviour in an Interactive Fiction Game" By Jessica Rivera-Villicana, Fabio Zambetta, James Harland, and Marsha Berry; available for download on ResearchGate . Disclaimer : I attended the talk about this paper, but have only skimmed the text of the paper itself. Player modeling  is a sub-area of game AI concerned with representing and tracking players' mental states and experiences while playing a game. This is the first paper I've seen addressing the problem in an interactive narrative context. BDI  stands for Belief, Desire, and Intention, a philosophical framework for agent modeling (from 1987) that supposes all actions are driven

Paper and Game of the Week

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Paper of the Week: Imaginative Recall with Story Intention Graphs By Sarah Harmon and Arnav Jhala . Bias disclaimer: both Sarah and Arnav are folks I've worked with and consider colleagues. Imaginative recall  is the process of generalizing and extrapolating previously-seen narrative examples to create new ones. Harmon and Jhala present an automated system for carrying out this process based on a narrative representation scheme called story intention graphs (SIGs). This paper was a bit hard for me to tease apart initially because there are really two things going on: The system of imaginative recall originally embodied by the Minstrel system, later adapted to the modern rewrite Skald, which uses case-based reasoning The translation between Skald story representation and SIGs (1) is largely prior work, but lays the groundwork and motivation for their project. Ultimately they are interested in the problem of carrying out processes on narratives such as adaptation, t

Paper and game of the week

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I'm going to try to loosen the ol' blogging joints a bit by experimenting with a weekly feature: a Paper and Game of the Week, posted every Friday morning. My goal will be to keep a record of recent research inspirations in the hopes of exposing interesting gems to others, and providing better context for my own work. I will preemptively establish the expectation that the paper and game of the week may not *literally* be a paper and a game; the objective is more like "something CS-academia-centered" and "something creativity/arts-movement centered," which for me in recent weeks has mostly meant papers and games, but at other times has included talks, interactive essays, plays, art exhibits, and weird internet art. So without further ado: Paper of the Week Commonsense Interpretation of Triangle Behavior  by Andrew S. Gordon (not Andrew D. Gordon , although his papers might easily feature on this blog too). This paper is a formalization of the reas