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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 13:52:36 -0800 From: Phoebe Sengers Subject: OOPS Re: NI

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Call for Participation:

AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Narrative Intelligence

November 5-7, 1999 Sea Crest Conference Center on Cape Cod North Falmouth, Massachusetts

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 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~michaelm/narrative.html

    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.

    Submissions for the symposia are due March 31, 1999 Notification of acceptance will be given by May 7, 1999 Material to be included in the working notes of the symposium must be received by August 27, 1999.

    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)

    General Symposia Information:

    This symposium is one of five being offered in the 1999 AAAI Fall Symposium Series. Symposia will be limited to between forty and sixty participants. Each participant will be expected to attend a single symposium. Working notes will be prepared and distributed to participants in each symposium. In addition to invited participants, a limited number of interested parties will be able to register in each symposium on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration information will be available in early July. To obtain registration information, write to:

    AAAI Fall Symposium Series

    445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025-3442 Voice: 650-328-3123 Fax: 650-321-4457 fss@aaai.org www.aaai.org/Symposia/symposia.html ```

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