Talks will be 30 minutes. Spotlight will be 5 minutes. Both Talks and Spotlight participants will be expected to present a poster in the evening poster
session on the same day of the talk or spotlight. Size of the Poster Board is 30"x40"
Monday 23 March
8:45am - 9:00am Opening Remarks
9:00am - 10:30am Session 1: Story Generation
Session chair: R. Michael Young
Talks:
- Reid Swanson and Andrew Gordon. A Comparison of Retrieval Models for Open Domain Story Generation
- Jonathan Rowe, Scott McQuiggan, Jennifer Robison, Derrick Marcey and James Lester. StoryEval: An Empirical Evaluation Framework for Narrative Generation
Spotlight:
- Darren Appling and Mark Riedl. Representations for Learning to Summarize Plots
- Mark Riedl. Incorporating Authorial Intent into Generative Narrative Systems
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Session 2: Social Agents
Session chair: Andrew Gordon
Talks:
- David Knapp. Using Analogies across Narratives to drive Dialogue
- Joshua McCoy and Michael Mateas. The Computation of Self in Everyday Life: A Dramaturgical Approach for Socially Competent Agents
Spotlight:
- Yundong Cai, Chunyan Miao, Ah-Hwee Tan and Zhiqi Shen. Modeling Believable Virtual Characters with Evolutionary Fuzzy Cognitive Maps in Interactive Storytelling
- Ian Horswill. Twig: A Simple, AI-friendly, Character World for Believable Agents
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 3:30pm Session 3: Panel
Challenges in Development and Design of Interactive Narrative Authoring Systems
Terry Borst, R. Michael Young, Marc Cavazza
3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
4:00pm - 5:30pm Session 4: Poster Session I
Tuesday 24 March
9:00am - 10:30am Session 5: Interactive Storytelling I
Session chair: Mark Riedl
Talks:
- D. Fox Harrell and Jichen Zhu. Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design
- Anne Sullivan, Sherol Chen and Michael Mateas. From Abstraction to Reality: Integrating Drama Management into a Playable Game Experience
Spotlight:
- Zach Tomaszewski and Kim Binsted. Demeter: An Implementation of the Marlinspike Interactive Drama System
- David Roberts, Harikrishna Narayanan and Charles Isbell. Learning to Influence Emotional Responses for Interactive Storytelling
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30am Session 6: Interactive Storytelling II
Session chair: Marc Cavazza
Talks:
- Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens, Ruth Aylett and Sandy Louchart. Modeling Game Master-based story facilitation in multi-player Role-Playing Games
- Gabriele Ferri and Riccardo Fusaroli. Which narrations for persuasive technologies? Habits and procedures in Ayiti: The Cost of Life
Spotlight:
- Emmett Tomai and Kenneth Forbus. What Are You Going to Do, Talk Me to Death? Exploring the Narrative State in Interactive Entertainment
- Sherol Chen, Mark Nelson and Michael Mateas. Evaluating the Authorial Leverage of Drama Management
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 3:30pm Session 7: Story Understanding
Session chair: Ian Horswill
Talks:
- Beth Cardier. Seismic Semantic Federation: The View from Machu Picchu
- James Niehaus and R. Michael Young. A Computational Model of Inferencing in Narrative
Spotlight:
- Michael Hitchens and Anders Tychsen. The Personal Experience of Narratives in Role-Playing Games
- David Elson and Kathleen McKeown. Extending and Evaluating a Platform for Story Understanding
3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
4:00pm - 5:30pm Session 8: Poster Session II
Wednesday 25 March
9:00am - 10:30am Session 9: Improvised Comedy Games Workshop I
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Session 10: Improvised Comedy Games Workshop II
12:30pm - 12:45 Session 11: Closing Remarks