14-15 Nov 2015
Santa Cruz CA, U.S.A.
Dear colleagues, We are organizing the Eighth Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies. Please see the CfP below and help spread the word. Our website is located at: http://go.ncsu.edu/int8 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The Eighth Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT8) Co-located with the Eleventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment November 14-15, 2015 UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA http://go.ncsu.edu/int8 Important dates Submission deadline: July 3 Acceptance notification: July 24 AIIDE early registration: August 7 Camera-ready deadline: August 12 AIIDE late registration: September 4 INT8 workshop: November 14-15 The Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT) workshop series aims to advance research in artificial intelligence for the computational understanding and expression of narrative. Recent years have witnessed significant advances in the technical, creative, and aesthetic interpretation of narratives with digital media, including games, simulations, interactive fiction, and electronic literature. Our goal is to contribute to this forward momentum by congregating a multidisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners to share their latest work at the intersection of narrative and technology. Previous meetings of this workshop have brought together computer scientists, psychologists, narrative theorists, media theorists, artists, writers, and members of the interactive entertainment industry. From this broad expertise, the workshop focuses on computational systems to represent, reason about, create, adapt, and perform interactive and non-interactive narrative experiences. This also includes fundamental research in relevant fields such as natural language processing, believable virtual characters, commonsense reasoning, computer vision, computational media, and human storytelling. INT8, the eighth workshop in the series, will be co-located with the Eleventh Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2015) at University of California, Santa Cruz. We hope to continue to attract researchers and practitioners from a diverse range of backgrounds, as well as expand the INT community, in order to foster multidisciplinary collaborations across the field. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Artificial intelligence for story generation and storytelling Computational understanding, analysis, and summarization of narratives, including natural language processing and computer vision Applications of intelligent narrative technologies, including education and healthcare Drama management for interactive narratives Narrative discourse generation Virtual cinematography for narratives Virtual characters that converse, narrate, perform, and behave believably Computable narrative models inspired by cognitive science, narratology, drama studies, and related disciplines Narrative presence and engagement in virtual environments Narrative-related affect and emotion Narrative knowledge acquisition Computational creativity in narrative systems Authoring tools for intelligent narrative technologies, including collaborative authoring Evaluation methods for intelligent narrative technologies User studies and deployed intelligent narrative systems Human-computer interaction with narrative technologies Paper submissions We invite submissions of full papers (6 pages plus 1 page of references) describing completed or ongoing relevant research and short papers (4 pages including references) for preliminary work, position papers, or work of limited scope. We also invite demo proposals (1 page) and panel proposals (1 page). Speakers in the panel proposal should be already confirmed upon submission. The best reviewed full and short paper submissions will be accepted for oral presentation. Other submissions may be accepted as poster presentations. All accepted papers will be published in the INT8 workshop technical report by the AAAI Press. Submissions must be anonymized for double blind reviews. This means that author names, affiliations, and system names must be removed. Submissions should follow AAAI guidelines ( http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php) and be submitted as PDF files via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=int8). Organizing Committee Camille Barot, North Carolina State University Boyang ?Albert? Li, Disney Research Jonathan Rowe, North Carolina State University Emmett Tomai, University of Texas ? Pan American INT Steering Committee Marc Cavazza, Teesside University, UK Ian Horswill, Northwestern University Arnav Jhala, University of California, Santa Cruz Brian Magerko, Georgia Institute of Technology Mark Riedl, Georgia Institute of Technology Dave Roberts, North Carolina State University Jonathan Rowe, North Carolina State University Mei Si, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute David Thue, Reykjavik University Emmett Tomai, University of Texas - Pan American R. Michael Young, North Carolina State University Jichen Zhu, Drexel University