[ACT-R-users] CFP: AAAI 2007 Fall Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies

[Brian Magerko]

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   CFP for the AAAI Fall Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies
                     http://gel.msu.edu/aaai-fs07-int/

     Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, Virginia, November 8-11, 2007
                       Submissions due: May 1, 2007
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Narrative is a pervasive aspect of human culture in both entertainment
and education.  As the reliance on digital technology for both
entertainment and education technology increases, the need for more
innovative approaches to represent, perform, and adapt narrative
experiences increases as well.  The term "narrative intelligence" was
coined to refer to the ability in both humans and computers to organize
experience into narrative form.  Previous and current work that in this
field has produced results in narrative understanding, narrative
generation, storytelling user interface modalities, narrative
performance by autonomous embodied agents, cognitive models of
narrative, and common-sense reasoning.

Our goal is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers
interested in discussing the fundamental issues in representing,
presenting, adapting, and reasoning about narrative in digital media.
To this end we invite AI researchers interested in interactive and
non-interactive narrative, psychologists, narrative theorists, media
theorists, and members of the interactive entertainment industry to
contribute to the symposium.  We intend to interleave paper
presentations with creative, collaborative working sessions and
innovative programming, such as an improvisational acting workshop.
Contributors are encouraged to send in papers describing completed or
ongoing research, and proposals for discussion topics that will be of
interest to the community at large. 


Topics of interest:

- Narrative/story understanding/generation
- Agents, in the context of narrative performance
    - Believability
    - Emotion
    - Personality
    - Autonomy
- Interactive narrative/storytelling systems
- Authoring tools and narrative co-construction support tools
- Computational models of narrative
- Narrative psychology, theory, and narratology
- Narrative in commonsense reasoning
- Narrative in intelligent learning environments, serious games, and
  edutainment
- Narrative in commercial and experimental interactive entertainment
- Narrative structure in interface design
- Complimentary technologies
    - Virtual cinematography
    - Computational models of creativity and aesthetics
    - Natural language generation/understanding for narrative
    - Music generation for dramatic effect
- Production/comprehension

Due to the broad and multidisciplinary nature of narrative studies, we
will also seriously consider other complimentary topics that are not
included on the list.


Submission:

We welcome submissions describing (1) finished or ongoing relevant
research and systems, including theories and models that can inform the
development of systems; and (2) proposals for discussion topics that
will be of interest to the symposium.  Long papers should be at most 8
pages; short papers should be at most 4 pages; proposals for discussion
topics should be at most 2 pages.  Please submit electronically in PDF
format following AAAI style guidelines to magerko at msu.edu. 

We encourage you to demo your systems.  If would like to demo a system,
please indicate so at the time of submission.  If there are enough
demos, we will arrange for a special demo session.

Limited travel scholarship opportunities exist for students.  Contact
Brian Magerko (magerko at msu.edu) or Mark Riedl (riedl at ict.usc.edu) for
more details.

We intend to actively seek out and partner with an appropriate journal
with which to publish a special issue devoted to outstanding papers
submitted to the symposium.


Symposium Format:

The symposium will consist research presentations organized into tracks
(to be decided based on submissions), interleaved with creative,
collaborative working sessions and innovative programming, such as an
improvisational acting workshop.  Discussions and panels will be
organized in response to submitted topic proposals.  


Important Dates:

Submission deadline: May 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 21, 2007 Camera-ready due: TBD
Symposium: November 8-11, 2007


Organizing Committee:

Brian Magerko (co-chair), Michigan State University 
Mark Riedl (co-chair), University of Southern California 
Bryan Loyall, BAE Systems 
Michael Young, North Carolina State University 
Michael Mateas, University of California, Santa Cruz


Program Committee:

TBD