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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] [RRE]AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium: Narrative Intelligence</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: "Bruce Mitchener, Jr." <<A HREF="mailto:bruce#puremagic,com">bruce#puremagic,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 16:49:25 -0800</LI>
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<PRE>
Potentially of interest to some?
- Bruce
On Tuesday, December 22, 1998, Phil Agre wrote:
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>Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 23:45:32 -0500
>From: Michael Mateas <Michael.Mateas#cs,cmu.edu>
>Subject: AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium: Narrative Intelligence
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>Dear Collegues,
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>I'm pleased to announce that AAAI accepted our proposed 1999 Fall
>Symposium on Narrative Intelligence. A short CFP is included below.
>If you have any questions about the symposium, please contact Phoebe
>Sengers (phoebe#zkm,de) or myself (michaelm#cs,cmu.edu). We hope that
>you are able to attend the symposium. Thank you for your interest.
>
>-Michael Mateas
>
>--------------------------
>Call for Participation:
>
>AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Narrative Intelligence
>
>While narrative has long been a theme in AI, it has recently
>experienced a surge of popularity. Researchers in various subfields,
>including story generation and understanding, agent architecture,
>and interface agents, have taken independent forays into narrative,
>finding it a fruitful way to rethink some basic issues in AI. Strands
>of work in Narrative Intelligence (NI) include the following:
>
>- *Models of human narrative cognition*: Since narrative is an
>important part of the way humans understand the world and each other,
>some researchers are looking at ways in which artificial agents can
>have similar narrative capabilities.
>
>- *Architectures for generating narratively understandable behavior*:
>Some researchers are building story-telling systems, autonomous
>agents, and interface agents which can generate narratively structured
>behavior.
>
>- *Meta-studies of narrative as part of AI research*: AI researchers,
>being human, themselves use narrative to understand their own work.
>An understanding of this narrative process can improve the quality and
>social applicability of AI technology.
>
>Researchers in NI have drawn from many research traditions, including
>art, literary theory, (narrative) psychology, and cultural studies.
>The goal for our symposium, Narrative Intelligence, is to bring
>researchers from these disparate perspectives together to talk about
>what we have learned about narrative and its potential for AI.
>
>Scope and questions of the symposium
>
>Within AI, this symposium solicits work from, but not limited to, the
>following areas:
>
>* Story understanding
>* Story generation
>* Narrative structure in interface design
>* Narrative structure in the design of autonomous agents
>* Believable agents (insofar as they participate in narrative structure)
>* Interactive story-telling
>
>In addition, because NI researchers have drawn deep inspiration from
>concepts of narrative from other disciplines, we hope to broaden
>and solidify our understanding of narrative by including several
>participants from other research traditions, including:
>
>* Narrative psychology
>* Narrative theory
>* Art
>* Cultural studies
>
>More information about this symposium can be found at
><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~michaelm/narrative.html">http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~michaelm/narrative.html</A>
>
>Submission Information:
>
>Potential participants should submit a short paper (3 to 5 pages -
>see web page above for more information) describing their work in this
>area. The paper should make clear which approaches to narrative are
>being drawn on and how they apply to AI. All submissions should be
>sent via electronic mail, in plain ASCII format, to Michael Mateas at
>michaelm#cs,cmu.edu.
>
>Organizing Committee:
>
>Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Reading Department of Cybernetics
>
>Clark Elliott, DePaul University Institute for Applied Artificial
>Intelligence
>
>James Lester, North Carolina State University Department of Computer
>Science
>
>Michael Mateas (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Department of
>Computer Science
>
>Chrystopher Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire Interactive Systems
>Engineering
>
>Phoebe Sengers (co-chair), Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM
>Karlsruhe)
>
>end
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01045" HREF="msg01045.html">[MUD-Dev] [RRE]AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium: Narrative Intelligence</A></strong>,
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