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2008

Title: Emergent Stories Facilitated: An architecture to generate stories using intelligent synthetic characters
Authors: Rui Figueiredo, Antonio Brisson, Ruth Aylett and Ana Paiva
Where: 1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2008), Erfurt, Germany, 26 - 29 November 2008
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Title: Purposeful Authoring for Emergent Narrative
Authors: Sandy Louchart, Ivo Swartjes, Michael Kriegel and Ruth Aylett
Where: 1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2008), Erfurt, Germany, 26 - 29 November 2008
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Title: Profiling Cultures for Affective Synthetic Characters
Authors: Asad Nazir, Ruth Aylett and Allison Cawsey
Where: AAAI Fall Symposium on Adaptive Agents in Cultural Context (AACC, 08) Arlington Virginia, USA, November 7 - 9, 2008
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Title: Modelling the Creation of Personal Narrative: A Computational Approach with Autobiographic Agents
Authors: Wan Ching Ho, Kerstin Dautenhahn and Megan Davis
Where: HCSNet Workshop on Narrative & Communication Disorders, Melbourne, Australia, September 13 - 14, 2008
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Title: Improving Adaptiveness in Autonomous Characters
Authors: Mei Yii Lim, João Dias, Ruth Aylett and Ana Paiva
Where: 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA08), Tokyo, Japan, September 1 - 3, 2008
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Title: Emergent Narrative as a Novel Framework for Massively Collaborative Authoring
Authors: Michael Kriegel and Ruth Aylett
Where: 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA08), Tokyo, Japan, September 1 - 3, 2008
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Title: Towards a Narrative Mind: The Creation of Coherent Life Stories for Believable Virtual Agents
Authors: Wan Ching Ho and Kerstin Dautenhahn
Where: 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA08), Tokyo, Japan, September 1 - 3, 2008
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Title: EmoVoice - A framework for online recognition of emotions from voice
Authors: Thurid Vogt, Elisabeth André and Nikolaus Bee
Where: Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies for Speech-Based Systems, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 16 - 18, 2008
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Title: So tell me what happened: turning agent-based interactive drama into comics
Authors: Tiago Alves, Ana Simões, Rui Figueiredo, Marco Vala, Ana Paiva and Ruth Aylett
Where: The 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'08), Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008
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Title: Learning to interact: connecting perception with action in virtual environments
Authors: Pedro Sequeira and Ana Paiva
Where: The 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'08), Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008
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Title: Dancing the Night Away — Controlling a Virtual Karaoke Dancer by Multimodal Expressive Cues
Authors: Matthias Rehm, Thurid Vogt, Michael Wissner and Nikolaus Bee
Where: The 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'08), Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008

Title: Computational memory architectures for autobiographic agents interacting in a complex virtual environment: a working model
Authors: Wan Ching Ho, Kerstin Dautenhahn and Chrystopher Nehaniv
Where: Connection Science, 20:1, pages 21-65

Title: User-Centred Development of Mobile Interfaces to a Pervasive Computing Environment
Authors: Karin Leichtenstern and Elisabeth André
Where: First International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction, ACHI 2008, Sainte Luce, Martinique
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Title: Managing Emergent Character-Based Narrative
Authors: Ruth Aylett, Sandy Louchart, Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens, Rui Figueiredo and Carlos Delgado Mata
Where: 2nd International Conference on
INtelligent TEchnologies for interactive enterTAINment, INTETAIN 2008, Cancun, Mexico
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Title: Authoring Emergent Narrative Based Games
Authors: Sandy Louchart, Ruth Aylett, Michael Kriegel, João Dias, Rui Figueiredo and Ana Paiva
Where: Journal Of Game Development, vol 3 no 1, pages 19-37
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2007

Title: Automatic Recognition of Emotions from Speech: a Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Practical Realisation
Authors: Thurid Vogt, Elisabeth André and Johannes Wagner
Where: Book Chapter in Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction
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Title: Being there: Participants and Spectators in Interactive Narrative
Authors: Ruth Aylett and Sandy Louchart
Where: International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, Saint Malo, France
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Title: FearNot! – an emergent narrative approach to virtual dramas for anti-bullying education
Authors: Ruth Aylett, Marco Vala, Pedro Sequeira and Ana Paiva
Where: International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, Saint Malo, France
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Title: An Authoring Tool For An Emergent Narrative Storytelling System
Authors: Michael Kriegel, Ruth Aylett, João Dias and Ana Paiva
Where: AAAI Fall Symposium On Intelligent Narrative Technologies, Arlington, USA
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Title: Role Assignment via Physical Mobile Interaction Techniques in Mobile Multi-User Applications for Children
Authors: Karin Leichtenstern, Elisabeth André, and Thurid Vogt
Where: European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2007, Darmstadt, Germany
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Title: From IVAs to Comics Generating Comic Strips from Emergent Stories with Autonomous Characters
Authors: Tiago Alves, Ana Simões, Marco Vala, Ana Paiva, Adrian McMichael and Ruth Aylett
Where: Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2007, Paris, France
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Title: Double appraisal for synthetic characters
Authors: Sandy Louchart, Ruth Aylett and João Dias
Where: Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2007, Paris, France
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Title: I Know What I Did Last Summer: Autobiographic Memory in Synthetic Characters
Authors: João Dias, Wan Ching Ho, Thurid Vogt, Nathalie Beeckman, Ana Paiva and Elisabeth Andre
Where: Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
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Title: A systematic analysis of the suitability of HMMs for emotion recognition from acted and spontaneous speech
Authors: Johannes Wagner, Thurid Vogt and Elisabeth André
Where: Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
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Title: ECIRCUS: Building Voices for Autonomous Speaking Agents
Authors: Christian Weiss, Luís C. Oliveira, Sérgio Paulo, Carlos Miguel Duarte Mendes, Luís António Dias Mestre Figueira, Marco Vala, Pedro Sequeira, Ana Paiva, Thurid Vogt and Elisabeth Andre
Where: 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW-6, Bonn, Germany
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Title: MuLAS: A Framework For Automatically Building Multi-Tier Corpora
Authors: Sérgio Paulo and Luís C. Oliveira
Where: Interspeech(ISCA), Antwerp, Belgium
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Title: Facilitating the Emergence of Educational Stories: Using Emergent Stories for Pedagogical Purposes
Authors: Rui Figueiredo, Ana Paiva, and Ruth Aylett
Where: 13th international conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2007, Marina Del Rey, USA
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Title: A Knowledge Representation Model for Computational Autobiographic Agents
Authors: Wan Ching Ho, Scott Watson and Kerstin Dautenhahn
Where: International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL 2007, London, UK
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Title: A Tangible User Interface as Interaction and Presentation Device to a Social Learning Software
Authors: Karin Leichtenstern, Matthias Kranz, Paul Holleis, Eva Lösch, Elisabeth André
Where: Fourth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS '07), Braunschweig, Germany
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Title: From Synthetic Characters to Virtual Actors
Authors: Sandy Louchart and Ruth Aylett
Where: Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, AIIDE 2007, Stanford, USA
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Title: Comics2D: Describing and Creating Comics from Story-Based Applications with Autonomous Characters
Authors: Tiago Alves, Adrian McMichael, Ana Simões, Marco Vala, Ana Paiva and Ruth Aylett
Where: International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2007, Hasselt, Belgium
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Title: FearNot! demo: a virtual environment with synthetic characters to help bullying
Authors: Marco Vala, Pedro Sequeira, Ana Paiva and Ruth Aylett
Where: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2007, Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Title: Agents that remember can tell stories: integrating autobiographic memory into emotional agents
Authors: Wan Ching Ho, Joao Dias, Rui Figueiredo and Ana Paiva
Where: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2007, Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Title: Evaluating synthetic actors
Authors: Sandy Louchart and Ruth Aylett, Proceedings AISB07
Where: Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, AISB 2007, Newcastle, UK
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Title: A mixed initiative authoring environment for emergent narrative domains
Authors: Michael Kriegel and Ruth Aylett
Where: Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, AISB 2007, Newcastle, UK
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Title: ECircus: Spoken Interaction of Autonomous Agents in Educational Virtual Environments
Authors: Christian Weiss, Luis C. Oliveira, Thurid Vogt, Elisabeth Andre, Marco Vala, Ana Paiva, Lynne Hall
Where: 33rd German Annual Conference on Acoustics, DAGA 2007, Stuttgart, Germany

2006

Title: Shaping Emergent Narratives for a Pedagogical Application
Authors: Rui Figueiredo, Joao Dias, Ruth Aylett, Sandy Louchart and Ana Paiva
Where: Narrative and Interactive Learning Environments, NILE 2006, Edinburgh, UK
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Title: Making it up as you go along - improvising stories for pedagogical purposes
Authors: Ruth Aylett, Rui Figueiredo, Sandy Louchart, Joao Dias and Ana Paiva
Where: Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2006, Marina Del Rey, USA
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Title: Improving Automatic Emotion Recognition from Speech via Gender Differentiation
Authors: Thurid Vogt and Elisabeth André
Where: workshop Mobile und Embedded Interactive Systems at the Informatik 2006, Dresden, Germany
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Title: Social Mobile Interaction using Tangible User Interfaces and Mobile Phones
Authors: Karin Leichtenstern and Elisabeth André
Where: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy
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Title: FearNot’s Appearance: Reflecting children’s expectations and perspectives
Authors: Lynne Hall, Marc Hall, Marc Webster, Sarah Woods, Adrian Gordon and Ruth Aylett
Where: Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2006, Marina Del Rey, USA
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Title: Autobiographic Knowledge for Believable Virtual Characters
Authors: Wan Ching Ho and Scott Watson
Where: Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2006, Marina Del Rey, USA
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Created on 07/24/2006 01:37 PM by ecirweb
Updated on 03/05/2009 05:46 PM by ecirweb
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