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Michael Jewell
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Possibly of interest to SPIRES members (it's free to join -
http://www.spires.info/):
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From: Ruth Aylett <ru...@macs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:56 PM
Subject: [SPIRES] RIDERS NETWORK - STORYTELLING WORKSHOP Nov 8th QMUL, London
To: spi...@list-serve.hw.ac.uk
From a sister network and possibly of interest to SPIRES members..
Ruth Aylett
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EPSRC - RIDERS NETWORK - STORYTELLING WORKSHOP
Queen Mary, University of London - School of Electronic Engineering
and Computer Science
November 8th 2012
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FREE ATTENDANCE, TRAVEL SUBSIDISED
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The 3rd RIDERS workshop will take place at Queen Mary, University of
London on November 8th 2012.
RIDERS - http://www.riders-project.net/
RIDERS stands for Research in Interactive Drama Environments,
Role-play and Storytelling - Towards a multi-disciplinary community of
researchers with expertise in enhancing technological, social or
entertaining aspects of Digital Storytelling research.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERNEST ADAMS - Making MMOGs More Storylike
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Persistent worlds are great places to play but poor places to be a
hero, because in most of them the player cannot permanently change the
world. In this lecture I show how the design of current games harms
the story-like feel of the experience, and what we can to do to allow
all the players to play a more meaningful role in the plot. I also
describe a high concept for one such game, The Blitz Online.
Ernest Adams is a freelance game designer, writer, and teacher. He has
served in the game industry since 1989, and is the author of five
books, including the university-level textbook "Fundamentals of Game
Design, Second Edition." Ernest was most recently employed as a lead
designer at Bullfrog Productions on the Dungeon Keeper series, and for
several years before that was the audio/video producer on the Madden
NFL Football line for Electronic Arts. Ernest is also the founder and
first chairman of the International Game Developers' Association. His
website isathttp://www.designersnotebook.com.
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SANDY LOUCHART- Distributing Drama Management via AI
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In this talk, we describe an implementation of Distributed Drama
Management (DDM). DDM is a concept which involves synthetic actor
agents in an Emergent Narrative scenario acting on both an
in-character level, which reflects the concerns of the characters, and
an out-of-character level, which reflects the concerns of a
storyteller. By selecting the most “dramatically appropriate” action
from a set of autonomously proposed actions, Distributed Drama
Management aims to retain the benefits of Emergent Narrative such as
believability and agility of response to user actions, but attempts to
provide a structurally and emotionally consistent experience.
Sandy Louchart is a lecturer in Human Computer Interaction at the
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt
University. His research has investigated the domain of Interactive
Storytelling (IS) via the development of the Emergent Narrative
concept.http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~sandy/Home.html
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Zlatka Stankova - Emotion, the Writer's Perspective
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Zlatka Stankova is a Cinema and Theatre Director, a Script Writer, and
a Lecturer in Drama Theory and Practice. She specialises in Media
studies, Literary and Drama Theory and European Culture and Languages.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GERAINT WIGGINS- Emotion and Computational creativity
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Geraint Wiggins Geraint is Professor of Computational Creativity in
the Department of Computing in Goldsmiths' College, University of
London. He leads the Intelligent Sound and Music Systems (ISMS) group
in the Department of Computing, which forms part of the Centre for
Cognition, Computation and Culture, a new venture involving staff from
several departments around the College.
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HOW TO ATTEND?
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1 - Register as a member on the RIDERS network (free registration)
- http://www.riders-project.net/index.php?option=com_users&view=registration
2 - Register your desire to attend the workshop by emailing
rid...@macs.hw.ac.uk)
--
Ruth Aylett Professor of Computer Science
Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK Tel: 44-131-451-4189 Fax: 44-131-451-3327
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/ "Life is beautiful"
--
Ruth Aylett Professor of Computer Science
Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK Tel: 44-131-451-4189 Fax: 44-131-451-3327
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/ "Life is beautiful"
_______________________________________________
SPIRES mailing list
SPI...@list-serve.hw.ac.uk
https://list-serve.hw.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/spires
--
Dr Michael O. Jewell
ECS, University of Southampton
--
Dr Michael O. Jewell
ECS, University of Southampton
http://www.spires.info/):
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ruth Aylett <ru...@macs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:56 PM
Subject: [SPIRES] RIDERS NETWORK - STORYTELLING WORKSHOP Nov 8th QMUL, London
To: spi...@list-serve.hw.ac.uk
From a sister network and possibly of interest to SPIRES members..
Ruth Aylett
---
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EPSRC - RIDERS NETWORK - STORYTELLING WORKSHOP
Queen Mary, University of London - School of Electronic Engineering
and Computer Science
November 8th 2012
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FREE ATTENDANCE, TRAVEL SUBSIDISED
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The 3rd RIDERS workshop will take place at Queen Mary, University of
London on November 8th 2012.
RIDERS - http://www.riders-project.net/
RIDERS stands for Research in Interactive Drama Environments,
Role-play and Storytelling - Towards a multi-disciplinary community of
researchers with expertise in enhancing technological, social or
entertaining aspects of Digital Storytelling research.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERNEST ADAMS - Making MMOGs More Storylike
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Persistent worlds are great places to play but poor places to be a
hero, because in most of them the player cannot permanently change the
world. In this lecture I show how the design of current games harms
the story-like feel of the experience, and what we can to do to allow
all the players to play a more meaningful role in the plot. I also
describe a high concept for one such game, The Blitz Online.
Ernest Adams is a freelance game designer, writer, and teacher. He has
served in the game industry since 1989, and is the author of five
books, including the university-level textbook "Fundamentals of Game
Design, Second Edition." Ernest was most recently employed as a lead
designer at Bullfrog Productions on the Dungeon Keeper series, and for
several years before that was the audio/video producer on the Madden
NFL Football line for Electronic Arts. Ernest is also the founder and
first chairman of the International Game Developers' Association. His
website isathttp://www.designersnotebook.com.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SANDY LOUCHART- Distributing Drama Management via AI
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In this talk, we describe an implementation of Distributed Drama
Management (DDM). DDM is a concept which involves synthetic actor
agents in an Emergent Narrative scenario acting on both an
in-character level, which reflects the concerns of the characters, and
an out-of-character level, which reflects the concerns of a
storyteller. By selecting the most “dramatically appropriate” action
from a set of autonomously proposed actions, Distributed Drama
Management aims to retain the benefits of Emergent Narrative such as
believability and agility of response to user actions, but attempts to
provide a structurally and emotionally consistent experience.
Sandy Louchart is a lecturer in Human Computer Interaction at the
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt
University. His research has investigated the domain of Interactive
Storytelling (IS) via the development of the Emergent Narrative
concept.http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~sandy/Home.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zlatka Stankova - Emotion, the Writer's Perspective
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zlatka Stankova is a Cinema and Theatre Director, a Script Writer, and
a Lecturer in Drama Theory and Practice. She specialises in Media
studies, Literary and Drama Theory and European Culture and Languages.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GERAINT WIGGINS- Emotion and Computational creativity
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Geraint Wiggins Geraint is Professor of Computational Creativity in
the Department of Computing in Goldsmiths' College, University of
London. He leads the Intelligent Sound and Music Systems (ISMS) group
in the Department of Computing, which forms part of the Centre for
Cognition, Computation and Culture, a new venture involving staff from
several departments around the College.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HOW TO ATTEND?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 - Register as a member on the RIDERS network (free registration)
- http://www.riders-project.net/index.php?option=com_users&view=registration
2 - Register your desire to attend the workshop by emailing
rid...@macs.hw.ac.uk)
--
Ruth Aylett Professor of Computer Science
Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK Tel: 44-131-451-4189 Fax: 44-131-451-3327
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/ "Life is beautiful"
--
Ruth Aylett Professor of Computer Science
Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK Tel: 44-131-451-4189 Fax: 44-131-451-3327
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/ "Life is beautiful"
_______________________________________________
SPIRES mailing list
SPI...@list-serve.hw.ac.uk
https://list-serve.hw.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/spires
--
Dr Michael O. Jewell
ECS, University of Southampton
--
Dr Michael O. Jewell
ECS, University of Southampton
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