Clockwork: A Discrete Event and Agent-Based Social Simulation Framework (In Review)
Agent-based social simulation can be useful for creating digital twins of societies of interacting autonomous agents. Such simulations …
Ph.D. Proposal - The Little Computer People Taxonomy and Social Physics Engine
This proposal describes our efforts to evaluate and operationalize a taxonomy and an accompanying framework or ``social physics …
Anthology: A Social Simulation Framework
Social simulation research seeks to understand the dynamics of complex human behavior by simulating populations of individual …
Little Computer People: A Survey and Taxonomy of Simulated Models of Social Interaction
Bolstered by a growing interest in simulating believable non-player characters (NPCs), work on NPC models has spanned topics such as …
Intertwining World and Narrative Generation for a Mobile Role-playing Game
Making a game where the environments, characters, and story are all procedurally generated is a complex task. Our game adopts …
Designing a Combined World and Story Procedural Content Generation Engine
Procedural content generation (PCG) has seen relative widespread adoption in games and game development. While PCG methods are gaining …
A Spectrum of Audience Interactivity for Entertainment Domains (Won best paper)
The concept of audience interactivity has been rediscovered across many domains of storytelling and entertainment—e.g. digital …
Ph.D. Quals - Lyra: Simulating Believable Opinionated NPCs (Extended)
This work expands on and extends work previously pubished for the Lyra System towards the Ph.D. Computer Science qualifier requirement …
Villanelle: Towards Authorable Autonomous Characters in Interactive Narrative
We describe ongoing efforts on the Villanelle project, an approach to autonomous character authoring that integrates scripting with …
Towards generating narratives for the real world
An immersive, interactive environment and the non-player characters populating it often play a key role in interactive narrative …
Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Opinionated Virtual Characters.
A number of recent models for empirically-grounded social simulation have emerged recently from games and interactive narrative …
Scheduling Live Interactive Narratives with Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
In this paper, we tackle the largely overlooked problem of scheduling a multiplayer interactive narrative and propose the Live …
Mixed Reality Meets Procedural Content Generation in Video Games
The use of artificial intelligence and procedural content generation algorithms in mixed reality games is an unexplored space. We posit …
Procedural Level Generation for Augmented Reality Games
Mixed reality games are those in which virtual graphical assets are overlaid on the physical world. We explore the use of procedural …
Knowledge extraction and annotation for cross-domain textual case-based reasoning in biologically inspired design
Biologically inspired design (BID) is a methodology for designing technological systems by analogy to designs of biological systems. …