June 19, 2006
ACE Past, AIIDE Tomorrow, CA and IVA Future, LA LA LA
We’ve neglected to point out that the second Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) conference is about to happen, this week in LA. I don’t think any of us from GTxA will be there this year unfortunately, although I believe one or two of Michael’s grad students will have posters there. Here’s the list of presentations, which includes a talk by a Sims 2 developer, “The Power of Projection and Mass Hallucination: Practical AI in The Sims 2 and Beyond”, as well as “Emotions in Human-Agent Interactions” by Jonathan Gratch, a leading researcher at the Institute for Creative Technologies, USC.
Last week, also in LA, was Advances in Computing Entertainment (ACE), an pretty pricey conference with an interesting line-up of presentations, including Michael presenting an experimental Alternative Reality version of Façade, work with his colleague Blair MacIntyre and others. Maybe Michael can add a comment describing ACE a bit for us?
Also, a reminder that Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) will be taking place August 21-23 in LA. This one both Michael and I plan to attend, to give a talk on developing Façade, and demo at the Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents (GALA). Hope to see you there.
But take a break from LA, in mid-July in Boston for an AAAI workshop on Computational Aesthetics: AI Approaches to Beauty and Happiness, which includes presentations on predicting happiness in smart home denizens, Fox Harrell on interactive poetry generation, a talk on suspense from Michael Young of NCSU’s Liquid Narrative research group, and lo! Nick Montfort on NLG and Narrative Variation in IF.