Event overview
Computational Creativity Research Group: Seminar Series
Title:
Intelligent Narrative Generation: Creativity, Engagement, and Cognition
Abstract:
Storytelling is a pervasive part of the human experience -- we as humans tell stories to communicate, inform, entertain, and educate. Indeed there is evidence to suggest that narrative is a fundamental means by which we organize, understand, and explain the world. In this talk, I present research on artificial intelligence approaches to the creation of novel narrative structures using a range of cognitively inspired techniques from planning to machine learning. I discuss how computational story generation capabilities facilitate the creation of engaging, interactive user experiences in virtual worlds, computer games, and training simulations. I conclude with an ongoing research effort toward generalized computational narrative intelligence in which a system learns from crowdsourced experiences.
Biography
Dr. Mark Riedl is an Assistant Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing and director of the Entertainment Intelligence Lab. Dr. Riedl's research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, and storytelling. The principle research question his lab addresses is: how can intelligent computational systems reason about and create engaging experiences for users of virtual worlds and computer games. Dr. Riedl explores this question in two ways. First, he seeks to understand how computational systems can represent, reason about, and create narratives and interactive stories. Second, he seeks to understand how computational systems can autonomously design computer games. Dr. Riedl earned a PhD degree in 2004 from North Carolina State University. From 2004 to 2007, Dr. Riedl was a Research Scientist at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies. Dr. Riedl joined the Georgia Tech College of Computing in 2007. His research is supported by the NSF, DARPA, ONR, the U.S. Army, U.S. Health and Human Services, Disney, and Google. He is the recipient of a DARPA Young Faculty Award and an NSF CAREER Award.
https://research.cc.gatech.edu/eilab/mark-riedl
ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk/events/talks/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 31 Mar 2014 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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