Publications

Gennie Mansi, Julia Kim, Michael Rosenbloom, and Mark Riedl
Drawing Out Legal Risks: Co-Designing with Lawyers to Predict and Manage Legal Uncertainties of Medical AI Tools
arXiv:2606.30828 (2026).
arXiv bibtexExplainable AI Healthcare Policy and Law

Glenn Matlin, Isaac Song, Anthony Wen-Ming Zang, and Mark O. Riedl
No One Wins in Nuclear War: Social Simulations of High-Stakes Military Decision-Making
Proceedings of the COLM 2026 Workshop on Social Simulations with LLMs (2026).
arXiv Workshop bibtexSocial Simulation Agents Large Language Models AI Safety

Mark O. Riedl and Glenn Matlin
Position: AI is Not Ready for Strategic Conflict
Proceedings of the COLM 2026 Workshop on Social Simulations with LLMs (2026).
Workshop bibtexSocial Simulation Agents Policy and Law AI Safety

Isaac Song, Mohammed Rehan Parwani, Glenn Matlin, Emile Timothy Anand, Akhil Theerthala, Arjun Chatterjee, Anthony Wen-Ming Zang, Maria Kostylew, Yonadav G. Shavit, Sebastian Krier, and Mark O. Riedl
Role Steering of Language Models for Social Simulations
Proceedings of the COLM 2026 Workshop on Social Simulations with LLMs (2026).
arXiv Workshop bibtexSocial Simulation Agents Large Language Models Interpretability

Glenn Matlin, Chandreyi Chakraborty, Saehee Eom, Mika Okamoto, Rayan Castilla, Louis Jaburi, Alvin Deng, Taywon Min, Lucia Quirke, Stella Biderman, and Mark Riedl
Capability Provenance in Language Models: A Case Study in Social Reasoning
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Language Models (2026).
arXiv Conference bibtexLarge Language Models Interpretability

Geigh Zollicoffer, Tanush Chopra, Mingkuan Yan, Xiaoxu Ma, Kenneth Eaton, and Mark Riedl
World Model Robustness via Surprise Recognition
Proceedings of the 2026 CVPR Findings (2026).
arXiv Conference bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning AI Safety

Madhuri Singh, Grace C. Kim, Mika Okomoto, Aarushi Ammavajjala, Amal Alabdulkarim, Genni Mansi, and Mark O. Riedl
Counterfactual Explanations for Agentic Workflows
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (2026).
zenodo Workshop bibtexAgents Explainable AI

Mika Okamoto, Ansel Kaplan Erol, and Mark Riedl
Explainable Model Routing for Agentic Workflows
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (2026).
arXiv Workshop bibtexAgents Explainable AI

Upol Ehsan, Samir Passi, Koustuv Saha, Todd McNutt, Mark O. Riedl, and Sara Alcorn
From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing Asymptomatic AI Harms for Dignified Human-AI Interaction
Proceedings of CHI 2026 (2026).
arXiv Conference bibtexHealthcare Policy and Law

Madhuri Singh, Gennie Mansi, and Mark O. Riedl
Creating learning scaffolds for engineering design using Concept Catalyst
Proceedings of the International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting (2026).
arXiv Conference bibtexEducation Creativity

Gennie Mansi and Mark O. Riedl
Evaluating Actionability in Explainable AI
Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (2026).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Deven R. Desai and Mark O. Riedl
Using Agency Law to Tame AI Agents
Berkeley Technology Law Review forthcoming (2026).
SSRN Journal bibtexAgents Policy and Law Value Alignment

Glenn Matlin, Parv Mahajan, Isaac Song, Yixiong Hao, Ryan Bard, Stu Topp, Evan Montoya, M. Rehan Parwani, Soham Shetty, and Mark Riedl
Shall We Play a Game? Language Models for Open-ended Wargames
Proceedings of the 2025 EMNLP Word Play Workshop (2025).
arXiv Workshop bibtexSocial Simulation Agents AI Safety

Glenn Matlin, Devin Zhang, Rodrigo Barroso Loza, Diana M. Popescu, Joni Isbell, Chandreyi Chakraborty, and Mark Riedl
Do Language Models Agree with Human Perceptions of Suspense in Stories?
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Language Models (2025).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling Large Language Models

Mark O. Riedl and Deven R. Desai
AI Agents and the Law
Proceedings of the 2025 AAAI Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (2025).
arXiv Conference bibtexAgents Policy and Law Value Alignment

Gennie Mansi and Mark O. Riedl
Understanding the Impact of Physicians' Legal Considerations on XAI Systems
arXiv:2507.15996 (2025).
arXiv bibtexExplainable AI Healthcare Policy and Law

Gennie Mansi and Mark O. Riedl
Implications of Current Litigation on the Design of AI Systems for Healthcare Delivery
arXiv:2507.15981 (2025).
arXiv bibtexExplainable AI Healthcare Policy and Law

Maduri Singh, Amal Alabdulkarim, Gennie Mansi, and Mark O. Riedl
Explainable Reinforcement Learning Agents Using World Models
Proceedings of the 2025 IJCAI Workshop on Explainable AI (2025).
arXiv Workshop bibtexAgents Explainable AI Reinforcement Learning

Eric Zhou, Shreyas Basavatia, Moontashir Siam, Zexin Chen, and Mark O. Riedl
STORY2GAME: Generating (Almost) Everything in an Interactive Fiction Game
arXiv:2505.03547 (2025).
arXiv bibtexStorytelling Interactive Stories Game Generation

Yasmine Belghith, Mark Riedl, Roxanne Moore, Meltem Alemdar, and Jessica Roberts
Exploring AI intervention points in high-school engineering education: a research through co-design approach
Information and Learning Sciences to appear (2025).
Link Journal bibtexEducation

Gennie Mansi, Naveena Karusala, and Riedl Mark O.
Legally-Informed Explainable AI
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (2025).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AI Policy and Law

Kaige Xie, Ian Yang, John Gunerli, and Mark Riedl
Making Large Language Models into World Models with Precondition and Effect Knowledge
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (2025).
arXiv Conference bibtexLarge Language Models

Ashutosh Baheti, Debanjana Chakraborty, Faeze Brahman, Ronan Le Bras, Ximing Lu, Nouha Dziri, Yejin Choi, Mark Riedl, and Maarten Sap
Multi-Attribute Constraint Satisfaction via Language Model Rewriting
Transactions on Machine Learning Research May 2025 (2025).
arXiv Journal bibtexLarge Language Models

Md Sultan Al Nahian, Tasmia Tasrin, Spencer Frazier, Mark Riedl, and Brent Harrison
The Goofus & Gallant Story Corpus for Practical Value Alignment
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (2025).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling Value Alignment

Deven Desai and M. O. Riedl
Responsible AI Agents
arXiv:2502.18359 (2025).
arXiv bibtexAgents Policy and Law Value Alignment

Geigh Zollicoffer, Kenneth Eaton, Jonathan Balloch, Julia Kim, Riedl Mark O., and Robert Wright
Novelty Detection in Reinforcement Learning with World Models
International Conference on Machine Learning (2025).
arXiv Conference bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning AI Safety

Amal Alabdulkarim, Madhuri Singh, Gennie Mansi, Kaely Hall, and Mark O. Riedl
Experiential Explanations for Reinforcement Learning
Neural Computing and Applications 37 (2025).
arXiv Journal bibtexAgents Explainable AI Reinforcement Learning

Gennie Mansi and Mark Riedl
Recognizing Lawyers as AI Creators and Intermediaries in Contestability
Proceedings of the CSCW 2024 Workshop: From Stem to Stern: Contestability Along AI Value Chains (2024).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AI Policy and Law

Jonathan C. Balloch, Rishav Bhagat, Geigh Zollicoffer, Ruoran Jia, Julia Kim, and Mark O. Riedl
Is Exploration All You Need? Effective Exploration Characteristics for Transfer in Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the 2024 Reinforcement Learning Conference Workshop on Finding the Frame: Examining Conceptual Frameworks in Reinforcement Learning (2024).
arXiv Workshop bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning

Christopher Z. Cui, Xiangyu Peng, and Mark O. Riedl
A Mixture-of-Experts Approach to Few-Shot Task Transfer in Open-Ended Text Worlds
arXiv:2405.06059 (2024).
arXiv bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Rishav Bhagat, Jonathan Balloch, Zhiyu Lin, Julia Kim, and Mark Riedl
External Model Motivated Agents: Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Environment Sampling
Proceedings of the 2024 Reinforcement Learning Conference Workshop on Reinforcement Learning Beyond Rewards (2024).
arXiv Workshop bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning

Kenneth Eaton, Jonathan Balloch, Julia Kim, and Mark Riedl
The Interpretability of Codebooks in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning is Limited
Proceedings of the 2024 Reinforcement Learning Conference Workshop I Can't Believe It's not Better (2024).
arXiv Workshop bibtexAgents Explainable AI Interpretability Reinforcement Learning

Upon Ehsan and Mark O. Riedl
Explainable AI Reloaded: Challenging the XAI Status Quo in the Era of Large Language Models
Proceedings of the ACM 2024 Halfway to the Future Symposium (2024).
Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Gennie Mansi and Mark O. Riedl
Recognizing Lawyers as AI Creators and Intermediaries in Contestability
Proceedings of the CSCW Workshop From Stem to Stern: Contestability Along AI Value Chains (2024).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AI Policy and Law

Zhiyu Lin, Upol Ehsan, Rohan Agarwal, Samihan Dani, Vidushi Vashishth, and Mark Riedl
Beyond Following: Mixing Active Initiative into Computational Creativity
Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2024).
arXiv Workshop bibtexStorytelling Reinforcement Learning Creativity

Upon Ehsan and Mark O. Riedl
Explainable AI Reloaded: Challenging the XAI Status Quo in the Era of Large Language Models
Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium (2024).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Deven Desai and M. O. Riedl
Between Copyright and Computer Science: The Law and Ethics of Generative AI
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property (2024).
SSRN bibtexPolicy and Law

Kaige Xie and Mark O. Riedl
Creating Suspenseful Stories with Large Language Models
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) (2024).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling Large Language Models

Kaige Xie, Tong Yu, Haoliang Wang, Junda Wu, Handong Zhao, Ruiyi Zhang, Kanak Mahadik, Ani Nenkova, and Mark O. Riedl
Few-Shot Dialogue Summarization via Skeleton-Assisted Prompt Transfer
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) (2024).
arXiv Conference bibtexLarge Language Models

Ashutosh Baheti, Ximing Lu, Faeze Brahman, Ronan Le Bras, Maarten Sap, and Mark O. Riedl
Improving Language Models with Advantage-based Offline Policy Gradients
Proceedings of ICLR 2024 (2024).
arXiv Conference bibtexLarge Language Models Reinforcement Learning Value Alignment AI Safety

Upol Ehsan, Qingzi Vera Liao, Samir Passi, Mark O. Riedl, and Hal Daum'e
Seamful XAI: Operationalizing Seamful Design in Explainable AI
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (2024).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Upol Ehsan, Samir Passi, Q. Vera Liao, Larry Chan, I-Hsiang Lee, Michael Muller, and Mark O. Riedl
The Who in Explainable AI: How AI Background Shapes Perceptions of AI Explanations
Proceedings of CHI 2024 (2024).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Zhiyu Lin and M. O. Riedl
An Ontology of Co-Creative AI Systems
Proceedings of the 2024 NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design (2023).
arXiv Workshop bibtexCreativity

Yasmine Belghith, Julia Kim, Meltem Alemdar, Roxanne Moore, Jeffrey Rosen, Mark Riedl, and Jessica Roberts
Problem-solving or Solved Problems: Constricting design challenges in high-school engineering education to avoid (disruptive) failures
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Learning Sciences (2023).
Conference bibtexEducation

Yasmine Belghith, Roxanne Moore, Meltem Alemdar, Jeffrey Rosen, Mark Riedl, and Jessica Roberts
Examining Hard and Soft Skill Prioritization in HighSchool Engineering Education
Proceedings of the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Amercan Educational Research Association (2023).
Conference bibtexEducation

Xiangyu Peng, Christopher Cui, Wei Zhou, Renee Jia, and Mark O. Riedl
Story Shaping: Teaching Agents Human-like Behavior with Stories
Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2023).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling Interactive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning Value Alignment

Upol Ehsan, Koustuv Saha, Munmun De Choudhury, and Mark O. Riedl
Charting the Sociotechnical Gap in Explainable AI: A Framework to Address the Gap in XAI
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (2023).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Gennie Mansi and Mark O. Riedl
Why Don't You Do Something About It? Outlining Connections between AI Explanations and User Actions
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (2023).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AI

Zhiyu Lin, Upol Ehsan, Rohan Agarwal, Samihan Dani, Vidushi Vashishth, and Mark O. Riedl
Beyond Prompts: Exploring the Design Space of Mixed-Initiative Co-Creativity Systems
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Computational Creativity (2023).
arXiv Conference bibtexCreativity

Wei Zhou, Xiangyu Peng, and Mark O. Riedl
Dialogue Shaping: Empowering Agents through NPC Interaction
Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2023).
arXiv Workshop bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Zexin Chen, Eric Zhou, Kenneth Eaton, Xiangyu Peng, and Mark O. Riedl
Ambient Adventures: Teaching ChatGPT on Developing Complex Stories
arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01734 (2023).
arXiv bibtexInteractive Stories Agents

Christopher Cui, Xiangyu Peng, and Mark O. Riedl
Thespian: Multi-Character Text Role-Playing Game Agents
Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2023).
arXiv Workshop bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Rohan Agarwal, Zhiyu Lin, and Mark O. Riedl
A Controllable Co-Creative Agent for Game System Design
ArXiv preprint arXiv:2308.02317 (2023).
arXiv bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Jonathan C. Balloch, Zhiyu Lin, Xiangyu Peng, Mustafa Hussain, Aarun Srinivas, Robert Wright, Julia M. Kim, and Mark O. Riedl
Neuro-Symbolic World Models for Adapting to Open World Novelty
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (2023).
arXiv Conference bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning

Xiangyu Peng, Mark O. Riedl, and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
Inherently Explainable Reinforcement Learning in Natural Language
Proceedings of NeurIPS 2022 (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Explainable AI Interpretability Reinforcement Learning

Jonathan Balloch, Zhiyu Lin, Mustafa Hussain, Aarun Srinivas, Robert Wright, Xiangyu Peng, Julia Kim, and Mark Riedl
NovGrid: A Flexible Grid World for Evaluating Agent Response to Novelty
Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Designing Artificial Intelligence for Open Worlds (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning

Kaige Xie, Sarah Wiegreffe, and Mark Riedl
Calibrating Trust of Multi-Hop Question Answering Systems with Decompositional Probes
Findings of EMNLP 2022 (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexLarge Language Models Explainable AI

Upol Ehsan, Ranjit Singh, Jacob Metcalf, and Mark O. Riedl
The Algorithmic Imprint
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexPolicy and Law

Zhiyu Lin, Rohan Agarwal, and Mark Riedl
Creative Wand: A System to Study Effects of Communications in Co-Creative Settings
Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling Creativity

Jonathan C Balloch, Julia Kim, Jessica L Inman, and Mark O. Riedl
The Role of Exploration for Task Transfer in Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the IROS 2022 Workshop on Lifelong Learning of High-level Cognitive and Reasoning Skills (2022).
arXiv Workshop bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning

Louis Castricato, Alexander Havrilla, Shahbuland Matiana, Michael Pieler, Anbang Ye, Ian Yang, Spencer Frazier, and Mark Riedl
Robust Preference Learning for Storytelling via Contrastive Reinforcement Learning
arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07792 (2022).
arXiv bibtexStorytelling Large Language Models Reinforcement Learning Value Alignment

Upol Ehsan and Mark O. Riedl
Social Construction of XAI: Do We Need One Definition to Rule Them All?
Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Human-Centered AI (2022).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AI

Md Sultan Al Nahian, Spencer Frazier, Brent Harrison, and Mark Riedl
Machine Learning Approaches for Principle Prediction in Naturally Occurring Stories
arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06048 (2022).
arXiv bibtexStorytelling Value Alignment

Anbang Ye, Christopher Cui, Taiwei Shi, and Mark O. Riedl
Neural Story Planning
arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.08718 (2022).
arXiv bibtexStorytelling Large Language Models

Xiangyu Peng, Mark O. Riedl, and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
Inherently Explainable Reinforcement Learning in Natural Language
Proceedings of the 2022 Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Explainable AI Interpretability Reinforcement Learning

Xiangyu Peng, Kaige Xie, Amal Alabdulkarim, Harshith Kayam, Samihan Dani, and Mark O. Riedl
Guiding Neural Story Generation with Reader Models
Findings of EMNLP 2022 (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling Large Language Models

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Renee Jia, and Mark O. Riedl
Situated Dialogue Learning through Procedural Environment Generation
Proceedings of ACL 2022 (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning Game Generation

Xiangyu Peng, Siyan Li, Sarah Wiegreffe, and Mark O. Riedl
Inferring the Reader: Guiding Automated Story Generation with Commonsense Reasoning
Findings of EMNLP 2022 (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling Large Language Models

Amal Alabdulkarim, Winston Li, Lara J. Martin, and Mark O. Riedl
Goal-Directed Story Generation: Augmenting Generative Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2112.08593 (2021).
arXiv bibtexStorytelling Large Language Models Reinforcement Learning

Sarah Wiegreffe, Jack Hessel, Swabha Swayamdipta, Mark O. Riedl, and Yejin Choi
Reframing Human-AI Collaboration for Generating Free-Text Explanations
Proceedings of NAACL 2022 (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexLarge Language Models Explainable AI

Louis Castricato, Spencer Frazier, Jonathan Balloch, Nitya Tarakad, and Mark O. Riedl
Automated Story Generation as Question-Answering
arXiv:2112.03808 (2021).
arXiv bibtexStorytelling Large Language Models

Upol Ehsan and Mark O. Riedl
Explainability Pitfalls: Beyond Dark Patterns in Explainable AI
Proceedings of the NeurIPS Workshop on Human Centered AI (2021).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AI

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Mark Riedl
Learning Knowledge Graph-based World Models of Textual Environments
Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Xiangyu Peng, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, and Mark Riedl
Explainable Reinforcement Learning Agents with Stacked Hierarchical Graph Attention
Workshop on Explainable Graph-based Machine Learning at AKBC (2021).
Workshop bibtexAgents Explainable AI Interpretability Reinforcement Learning

Ashutosh Baheti, Maarten Sap, Alan Ritter, and Mark O. Riedl
Just Say No: Analyzing the Stance of Neural Dialogue Generation in Offensive Contexts
Proceedings of EMNLP 2021 (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexLarge Language Models Value Alignment AI Safety

Sarah Wiegreffe, Ana Marasovic, and Noah A. Smith
Measuring Association Between Labels and Free-Text Rationales
Proceedings of NAACL 2021 (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexLarge Language Models Explainable AI Interpretability

Sarah Wiegreffe and Ana Marasovic
Teach Me to Explain: A Review of Datasets for Explainable NLP
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Mark O. Riedl
Modeling Worlds in Text
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Benchmarks Track (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Social Simulation Agents Reinforcement Learning

Xiangyu Peng, Jonathan C. Balloch, and Mark O. Riedl
Detecting and Adapting to Novelty in Games
Proceedings of the AAAI21 Workshop on on Reinforcement Learning in Games (2021).
arXiv Workshop bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning

Wai Man Si, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, and Mark O. Riedl
Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character Relations
Proceedings of the 2021 SIGDIAL Conference (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling Large Language Models

Amal Alabdulkarim, Siyan Li, and Xiangyu Peng
Automatic Story Generation: Challenges and Attempts
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding (2021).
arXiv Workshop bibtexStorytelling

Louis Castricato, Spencer Frazier, Jonathan Balloch, and Mark O. Riedl
Tell Me A Story Like I'm Five: Story Generation via Question Answering
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding (2021).
Workshop bibtexStorytelling Large Language Models

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Mark O. Riedl
Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character Relations
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding (2021).
Workshop bibtexStorytelling Interactive Stories Large Language Models

Louis Castricato, Stella Biderman, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, and David Thue
Towards a Formal Model of Narratives
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding (2021).
arXiv Workshop bibtexStorytelling

Zhiyu Lin and Mark O. Riedl
Plug-and-Blend: A Framework for Controllable Story Generation with Blended Control Codes
Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling Large Language Models

Louis Castricato, Spencer Frazier, Jonathan Balloch, and Mark O. Riedl
Fabula Entropy Indexing: Objective Measures of Story Coherence
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding (2021).
arXiv Workshop bibtexStorytelling

Md Sultan Al Nahian, Spencer Frazier, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Training Value-Aligned Reinforcement Learning Agents Using a Normative Prior
arXiv:2104.09469 (2021).
arXiv bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning Value Alignment AI Safety

Ronal Singh, Upol Ehsan, Marc Cheong, Mark O. Riedl, and Tim Miller
LEx: A Framework for Operationalising Layers of Machine Learning Explanations
Proceedings of the CHI Workshop on Operationalizing Human-Centered Perspectives in Explainable AI (2021).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AI

D. Srivastava, Spencer Frazier, Mark O. Riedl, and K. Feigh
Effect of Interaction Design of Reinforcement Learning Agents on Human Satisfaction in Partially Observable Domains
International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging, and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (2021).
Conference bibtexAgents Explainable AI Reinforcement Learning

O. Nov, Y. Aphinyanaphongs, Y. Lui, D. Mann, M. Porfiri, Mark O. Riedl, J. Rizzo, and B. Wiesenfeld
The transformation of patient-clinician relationships with AI-based medical advice
Communications of the ACM 64 (2021).
ACM/DL Journal bibtexHealthcare

Upol Ehsan, Q. Liao, Michael J. Muller, Mark O. Riedl, and Justin D. Weisz
Expanding Explainability: Towards Social Transparency in AI systems
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Mark O Riedl
Situated Language Learning via Interactive Narratives
arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.09977 (2021).
arXiv bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Upol Ehsan, Philipp Wintersberger, Q. V. Liao, Martina Mara, M. Streit, Sandra Wachter, A. Riener, and Mark O. Riedl
Operationalizing Human-Centered Perspectives in Explainable AI
Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2021).
ACM/DL Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Zhaochen Luo, and Mark O Riedl
Exploration Strategies for Text-Adventure Agents
Proceedings of the IJCAI Knowledge-based Reinforcement Learning Workshop (2020).
Workshop bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Matthew Hausknecht, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Marc-Alexandre Cot'e, and Xingdi Yuan
Interactive Fiction Games: A Colossal Adventure
Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2020).
arXiv Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Matthew Hausknecht
Graph Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Natural Language Action Spaces
International Conference on Learning Representations (2020).
OpenReview Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Matthew J. Guzdial and Mark O. Riedl
Conceptual Game Expansion
ArXiv:2002.09636 (2020).
arXiv bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Spencer Frazier, Md Sultan Al Nahian, Mark O. Riedl, and Brent Harrison
Learning Norms from Stories: A Prior for Value Aligned Agents
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (2020).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling Value Alignment

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Wesley Cheung, Dan Tu, William Broniec, and Mark O Riedl
Bringing stories alive: Generating interactive fiction worlds
Proceedings of the Sixteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-20) (2020).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling Interactive Stories Game Generation

Upol Ehsan and Mark O. Riedl
Human-centered Explainable AI: Towards a Reflective Sociotechnical Approach
Proceedings of HCI International 2020: 22nd International Conference On Human-Computer Interaction (2020).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Matthew Hausknecht, and Mark O Riedl
How to avoid being eaten by a grue: Structured exploration strategies for textual worlds
arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.07409 (2020).
arXiv bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Wesley Cheung, William Broniec, and Mark O Riedl
Automated Storytelling via Causal, Commonsense Plot Ordering
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2020).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling

Mark O. Riedl
Weird AI Yankovic: Generating Parody Lyrics
Proceedings of the NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design (2020).
arXiv Workshop bibtexLarge Language Models

Xiangyu Peng, S. Li, Spencer Frazier, and Mark O. Riedl
Reducing Non-Normative Text Generation from Language Models
International Conference on Natural Language Generation (2020).
arXiv Conference bibtexLarge Language Models Value Alignment AI Safety

Sahith Dambekodi, Spencer Frazier, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, and Mark O Riedl
Playing Text-Based Games with Common Sense
Proceedings of the NeurIPS Wordplay workshop (2020).
arXiv Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Andrew Hoyt, Matthew J. Guzdial, Yalini Kumar, Gillian Smith, and Mark O. Riedl
Integrating Automated Play in Level Co-Creation
Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2019).
arXiv Workshop bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, William Broniec, Alex Mueller, and Mark O. Jeremy Paul
Toward Automated Quest Generation in Text-Adventure Games
Proceedings of the INLG Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation (2019).
arXiv Workshop bibtexInteractive Stories Game Generation

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Wesley Cheung, Zhaochen Luo, William Ma, Lara J. Martin, and Mark O. Riedl
Story Realization: Expanding Plot Events into Sentences
Proceedings of AAAI 2020 (2019).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Mark O. Riedl
Transfer in Deep Reinforcement Learning using Knowledge Graphs
Proceedings of the EMNLP Workshop on TextGraphs: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing (2019).
arXiv Workshop bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Zijin Lou, Matthew Guzdial, and Mark O. Riedl
Making CNNs for Video Parsing Accessible
Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2019).
Conference bibtexGame Generation

Pradyumna Tambwekar, Murtaza Dhuliawala, Lara J. Martin, Animesh Mehta, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Controllable Neural Story Plot Generation via Reward Shaping
Proceedings of the 2019 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2019).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling Reinforcement Learning

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Wesley Cheung, Zhaochen Luo, William Ma, Lara J. Martin, and Mark O. Riedl
Guided Neural Language Generation for Automated Storytelling
Proceedings of the 2019 ACL Workshop on Storytelling (StoryNLP) (2019).
Workshop bibtexStorytelling

Spencer Frazier and Mark O. Riedl
Improving Deep Reinforcement Learning in Minecraft with Action Advice
Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2019).
arXiv Conference bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning

Zhiyu Lin, Kyle Xiao, and Mark O. Riedl
GenerationMania: Learning to Semantically Choreograph
Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2019).
arXiv Conference bibtexGame Generation

Matthew Guzdial and Mark O. Riedl
Combinets: Creativity via Recombination of Neural Networks
Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computational Creativity (2019).
arXiv Conference bibtexCreativity

Mark O. Riedl
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies 1 (2019).
arXiv Journal bibtexExplainable AI

Matthew Guzdial, Nicholas Liao, Jonathan Chen, Chen Shao-Yu, Shukan Shah, Vishwa Shah, Joshua Reno, Gillian Smith, and Mark O. Riedl
Friend, Collaborator, Student, Manager: How Designof an AI-Driven Game Level Editor Affects Creators
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human-Factors (2019).
arXiv Conference bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Upol Ehsan, Pradyumna Tambwekar, Larry Chan, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Automated Rationale Generation: A Technique for Explainable AI and its Effects on Human Perceptions
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (2019).
arXiv Conference bibtexAgents Explainable AI

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Mark O. Riedl
Playing Text-Adventure Games with Graph-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the 2019 NeurIPS Workshop on Word Play: Reinforcement and Language Learning in Text-based Games (2019).
Workshop bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Mark O. Riedl
Playing Text-Adventure Games with Graph-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (2019).
arXiv Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Alexander Zook and Mark O. Riedl
Learning How Design Choices Impact Gameplay Behavior
IEEE Transactions on Games 11 (2018).
IEEE Journal bibtexGame Generation

Siddharth Srinivasan, Richa Arora, and Mark O. Riedl
A Simple and Effective Approach to the Story Cloze Test
Proceedings of NAACL 2018 (2018).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling

Christopher Purdy, Xinyu Wang, Larry He, and Mark O. Riedl
Predicting Generated Story Quality with Quantitative Measures
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2018).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

Lara J. Martin, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Xinyu Wang, William Hancock, Shruti Singh, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (2018).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling

Lara Martin, Srijan Sood, and Mark Riedl
Dungeons and DQNs: Toward Reinforcement Learning Agents that Play Tabletop Roleplaying Games
Proceedings of the 2018 Joint Workshop on Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing and Intelligent Narrative Technologies (2018).
PDF Workshop bibtexInteractive Stories Agents Reinforcement Learning

Zijin Luo, Nicholas Liao, Matthew Guzdial, and Mark O. Riedl
Player Experience Extraction from Gameplay Videos
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2018).
Conference bibtexGame Generation

Zhiyu Lin, Kyle Xiao, and Mark O. Riedl
GenerationMania: Learning to Semantically Choreograph
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2018).
arXiv Workshop bibtexGame Generation

Zhiyu Lin, Kyle Xiao, and Mark O. Riedl
GenerationMania: Learning to Semantically Choreograph
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Workshop on Knowledge Extraction in Games (2018).
Workshop bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Upol Ehsan, Brent Harrison, Larry Chan, and Mark O Riedl
Rationalization: A neural machine translation approach to generating natural language explanations
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (2018).
arXiv Conference bibtexAgents Explainable AI

Brent Harrison, Upol Ehsan, and Mark O. Riedl
Guiding Reinforcement Learning Exploration Using Natural Language
Proceedings of the 2018 International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (2018).
arXiv Conference bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning

Matthew Guzdial, Shukan Shah, and Mark Riedl
Towards Automated Let's Play Commentary
Proceedings of ther 2018 AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2018).
arXiv Workshop bibtexGame Generation

Matthew Guzdial and Mark O. Riedl
Automated Game Design via Conceptual Expansion
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2018).
arXiv Conference bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Matthew Guzdial and Mark O. Riedl
Combinatorial Creativity for Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning
Proceedings of the AAAI 2018 Workshop on Knowledge Extraction in Games (2018).
PDF Workshop bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Matthew Guzdial, Josh Reno, Jonathan Chen, Gillian Smith, and Mark O. Riedl
Explainable PCGML via Design Patterns
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2018).
Workshop bibtexExplainable AI Creativity Game Generation

Matthew Guzdial, Nicholas Liao, Vishwa Shah, and Mark O. Riedl
Creative Invention Benchmark
Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Computational Creativity (2018).
arXiv Conference bibtexCreativity

Matthew Guzdial, Nicholas Liao, and Mark Riedl
Co-Creative Level Design via Machine Learning
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2018).
arXiv Workshop bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Upol Ehsan, Pradyumna Tambwekar, Larry Chan, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Learning to Generate Natural Language Rationales for Game Playing Agents
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2018).
Workshop bibtexAgents Explainable AI

Kristin Siu, Alexander Zook, and Mark O. Riedl
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Creation of a Science of Game Design for Human Computation Games
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2017).
Conference bibtexHuman Computation

Kristin Siu, Matthew Guzdial, and Mark O. Riedl
Evaluating Singleplayer and Multiplayer in Human Computation Games
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2017).
PDF Conference bibtexHuman Computation

Mark O. Riedl and Brent. Harrison
Enter the Matrix: A Virtual World Approach to Safely Interruptable Autonomous Systems
Proceedings of the AAAI 2017 Workshop on SafeAI (2017).
arXiv Workshop bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning AI Safety

Lara J. Martin, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Xinyu Wang, Shruti Singh, Brent Harrison, Murtaza Dhuliawala, Pradyumna Tambwekar, Animesh Mehta, Richa Arora, Nathan Dass, Chris Purdy, and Mark O. Riedl
Improvisational Storytelling Agents
Proceedings of the NIPS 2017 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design (2017).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytelling Interactive Stories

Lara J. Martin, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, William Hancock, Shruti Singh, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets
Proceedings of the KDD 2017 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity (2017).
Workshop bibtexStorytelling

Z. Lin, B. Harrison, A. Keech, and M. O. Riedl
Explore, Exploit or Listen: Combining Human Feedback and Policy Model to Speed up Deep Reinforcement Learning in 3D Worlds
ArXiv:1709.03969 (2017).
arXiv bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning

Nicholas Liao, Matthew Guzdial, and Mark O. Riedl
Deep Convolutional Player Modeling on Log and Level Data
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2017).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Sam Krening, Brent Harrison, Karen Feigh, Charles Isbell, Mark O. Riedl, and Andrea Thomaz
Learning from Explanations using Sentiment and Advice in RL
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (2017).
PDF bibtexAgents Reinforcement Learning

Brent Harrison, Christopher Purdy, and Mark O. Riedl
Toward Automated Story Generation with Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods and Deep Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the 2017 AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (2017).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytelling

Matthew Guzdial and Mark O. Riedl
Combinatorial Meta Search
Proceedings of the NIPS 2017 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design (2017).
PDF Workshop bibtexCreativity

Matthew Guzdial and Mark O. Riedl
Game Engine Learning from Video
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2017).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Matthew Guzdial, Jonathan Chen, Shao-Yu Chen, and Mark O. Riedl
A General Level Design Editor for Co-creative Level Design
Proceedings of the AAAI 2017 Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2017).
PDF Workshop bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Adam Summerville, Matthew Guzdial, Mark O. Riedl, and Michael Mateas
Learning Player Tailored Content From Observation: Platformer Level Generation from Video Traces using LSTMs
Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2016).
Conference bibtexGame Generation

Kristin Siu and Mark Riedl
Reward Systems in Human Computation Games
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (2016).
PDF Conference bibtexHuman Computation

Mark O. Riedl
Computational Narrative Intelligence: A Human-Centered Goal for Artificial Intelligence
Proceedings of the CHI 2016 Workshop on Human Centered Machine Learning (2016).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytelling

Mark Riedl and Brent Harrison
Using Stories to Teach Human Values to Artificial Agents
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on AI, Ethics and Society (2016).
PDF Workshop bibtexAgents Value Alignment AI Safety

Christopher Purdy and Mark O. Riedl
Reading Between the Lines: Using Plot Graphs to Draw Inferences From Stories
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2016).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

Laura J. Martin, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Improvisational Computational Storytelling in Open Worlds
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2016).
PDF Conference bibtexInteractive Stories

Brent Harrsion and Mark O Riedl
Learning From Stories: Using Crowdsourced Narratives to Train Virtual Agents
Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2016).
PDF Conference bibtexAgents Value Alignment AI Safety Human Computation

Brent Harrison and Mark Riedl
Towards Learning From Stories: An Approach for Interactive Machine Learning
Proceedings of the AAAI'16 Workshop on Symbiotic Cognitive Systems (2016).
PDF Workshop bibtexAgents Value Alignment AI Safety

Brent Harrison, Siddhartha Banerjee, and Mark O. Riedl
Learning from Stories: Using Natural Communication to Train Believable Agents
Proceedings of the 2016 IJCAI Workshop on Interactive Machine Learning (2016).
PDF Workshop bibtexAgents Value Alignment AI Safety

Matthew Guzdial and Mark O. Riedl
Game Level Generation from Gameplay Videos
Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2016).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Matthew Guzdial and Mark Riedl
Learning to Blend Computer Game Levels
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Computational Creativity (2016).
arXiv Conference bibtexGame Generation

Sasha Azad, Carl Saldahna, Cheng Hann Gan, and Mark O. Riedl
Mixed Reality and Procedural Content Generation in Video Games
Proceedings of the 3rd AAAI Workshop on Experimental Artificial Intelligence in Games (2016).
PDF Workshop bibtexGame Generation

Sasha Azad, Carl Saldahna, Cheng Hann Gan, and Mark O. Riedl
Procedural Level Generation for Mixed Reality Games
Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2016).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Alexander Zook, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Simulation-based Play Strategy Analysis
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2015).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Hong Yu and Mark O. Riedl
Automatic Generation of Game-based CAPTCHAs
Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Procedural Content Generation (2015).
PDF Workshop bibtexGame Generation Human Computation

Hong Yu and Mark O. Riedl
Optimizing Players' Expected Enjoyment in Interactive Stories
Proceedings of the 11th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2015).
PDF Conference bibtexInteractive Stories

Scott Robertson, Rob Solomon, Mark O. Riedl, Theresa Gillespie, Arun Mohan, Toni Chociemski, and Viraj Master
The Visual Design and Implementation of an Embodied Conversation Agent in a Shared Decision Context
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (2015).
Conference bibtexHealthcare

Mark O. Riedl
The Lovelace 2.0 Test of Artificial Creativity and Intelligence
Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop: Beyond the Turing Test (2015).
arXiv Workshop bibtexCreativity

Brian O'Neill and Mark O. Riedl
Emotion-Driven Narrative Generation
Emotion in Games--Theory and Practice (2015).
Conference bibtexStorytelling

Boyang Li and Mark O. Riedl
Scheherazade: Crowd-Powered Interactive Narrative Generation
Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2015).
PDF Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Human Computation

Matthew Guzdial and Mark O. Riedl
Toward Game Level Generation from Gameplay Videos
Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Procedural Content Generation (2015).
arXiv Workshop bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Matthew Guzdial and Mark O. Riedl
Intelligent Level Design Editor
(2015).
bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Matthew Guzdial, Brent Harrison, Boyang Li, and Mark O. Riedl
Crowdsourcing Open Interactive Narrative
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2015).
PDF Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Human Computation

Sauvik Das, Alexander Zook, and Mark. O. Riedl
Examining Game World Topology Personalization
Working Note in the Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (2015).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Alexander Zook and Mark O. Riedl
Temporal Game Challenge Tailoring
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Games (2014).
PDF bibtexGame Generation

Alexander Zook and Mark O. Riedl
Generating and Adapting Game Mechanics
Proceedings of the 2014 Foundations of Digital Games workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Games (2014).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Alexander Zook and Mark O. Riedl
Automatic Game Design via Mechanic Generation
Proceedings of the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2014).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Alexander Zook, Eric Fruchter, and Mark O. Riedl
Automatic Playtesting for Game Parameter Tuning via Active Learning
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2014).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Hong Yu and Mark O. Riedl
Personalized Interactive Narratives via Sequential Recommendation of Plot Points
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Games 6 (2014).
PDF Journal bibtexInteractive Stories

Kristin Siu, Alexander Zook, and Mark O. Riedl
Collaboration versus Competition: Design and Evaluation of Mechanics for Games with a Purpose
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2014).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation Human Computation

M.O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
The Importance of Narrative as an Affective Instructional Strategy
Design Recommendations for Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Adaptive Instructional Strategies 2 (2014).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling Education

Brian C. O'Neill and Mark O. Riedl
Applying Qualitative Research Methods to Narrative Knowledge Engineering
Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (2014).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytelling

Brian C. O'Neill and Mark O. Riedl
Dramatis: A Computational Model of Suspense
Proceedings of the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2014).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

Boyang Li, Mohini Thakkar, Yijie Wang, and Mark O. Riedl
From Data to Storytelling Agents
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (2014).
Conference bibtexStorytelling Human Computation

Boyang Li, Mohini Thakkar, Yijie Wang, and Mark O. Riedl
Data-Driven Storytelling Agents with Adjustable Personal Traits and Sentiments
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2014).
Conference bibtexStorytelling Human Computation

Boyang Li, Mohini Thakkar, Yijie Wang, and Mark O. Riedl
Data-Driven Alibi Story Telling for Social Believability
Proceedings of the 2014 Foundations of Digital Games workshop on Social Believability in Games (2014).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling Human Computation

Boyang Li
Learning Knowledge to Support Domain-Independent Narrative Intelligence
(2014).
PDF bibtexStorytelling Human Computation

Rania Hodhod, Marc Huet, and Mark O. Riedl
Toward Generating 3D Games with the Help of Commonsense Knowledge and the Crowd
Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2014).
PDF Workshop bibtexGame Generation Human Computation

Spencer Frazier and Mark O. Riedl
Persistent and Pervasive Real-World Sensing using Games
Proceedings of the 2nd AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Works in Progress Track (2014).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation Human Computation

Spencer Frazier and Mark O. Riedl
Toward Using Games and Artificial Intelligence to Proactively Sense the Real World
Proceedings of the 2014 AISB Symposium on AI and Games (2014).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation Human Computation

Yun-Gyung Cheong, Mark Riedl, Byung-Chull Bae, and Mark J. Nelson
Planning with applications to quests and story
Procedural Content Generation in Games (2014).
Conference bibtexStorytelling

Alexander Zook and Mark O. Riedl
Game Conceptualization and Development Processes in the Global Game Jam
Proceedings of the FDG'13 Workshop on the Global Game Jam (2013).
PDF Workshop bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Hong Yu and Mark O. Riedl
Toward Personalized Guidance in Interactive Narratives
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2013).
PDF Conference bibtexInteractive Stories

Hong Yu and Mark O. Riedl
Data-Driven Personalized Drama Management
Proceedings of the Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2013).
PDF Conference bibtexInteractive Stories

Mark O. Riedl and Alexander Zook
Game AI as Producer
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games (2013).
Conference bibtexGame Generation

Mark O. Riedl, Gita Reese Sukthankar, Arnav Jhala, Jichen Zhu, Santiago Villar Ontanon, Michael Buro, and David Churchill
Recap of the Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
AI Magazine 34 (2013).
Journal bibtex

Mark O. Riedl and Vadim Bulitko
Interactive Narrative: An Intelligent Systems Approach
AI Magazine 34 (2013).
PDF Journal bibtexInteractive Stories

Mark O. Riedl
Intelligent Narrative Generation: Creativity, Engagement, and Cognition
International Workshop on Perspectives of Information Technology (2013).
Workshop bibtexStorytelling Creativity

Brian O'Neill
A Computational Model of Suspense for the Augmentation of Intelligent Story Generation
(2013).
PDF bibtexStorytelling

Boyang Li, Stephen Lee-Urban, and Mark O. Riedl
Crowdsourcing Interactive Fiction Games
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2013).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling Interactive Stories Human Computation

Boyang Li, Stephen Lee-Urban, George Johnston, and Mark O. Riedl
Story Generation with Crowdsourced Plot Graphs
Proceedings of the 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2013).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling Human Computation

Nick Davis, Alexander Zook, Brian O'Neill, Michael Nitsche, and Mark Riedl
Creativity Support for Novice Digital Filmmaking
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (2013).
PDF Conference bibtexCreativity

Nicholas Davis, Alexander Zook, Friedrich Kirschner, Mark O. Riedl, and Michael Nitsche
Techniques for Evaluating Novice-Oriented Creativity Support Tools
Proceedings of the CHI 2013 Workshop on Evaluation Methods for Creativity Support Environments (2013).
Workshop bibtexCreativity

Alexander Zook, Mark O. Riedl, Heather K. Holden, Robert A. Sottilare, and Keith W. Brawner
Automated Scenario Generation: Toward Tailored and Optimized Military Training in Virtual Environments
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2012).
PDF Conference bibtexEducation Game Generation

Alexander Zook and Mark O. Riedl
A Temporal Data-Driven Player Model for Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment
Proceedings of the 8th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2012).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Alexander Zook, Steve Lee-Urban, Michael Drinkwater, and Mark O. Riedl
Skill-based Mission Generation: A Data-driven Temporal Player Modeling Approach
Proceedings of the Foundations of Digital Games 2012 Workshop On Procedural Content Generation in Games (2012).
PDF Workshop bibtexGame Generation

Hong Yu and Mark O. Riedl
A Sequential Recommendation Approach for Interactive Personalized Story Generation
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (2012).
PDF Conference bibtexInteractive Stories

Mark O. Riedl
Interactive Narrative: A Novel Application of Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games
Proceedings of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2012).
PDF Conference bibtexInteractive Stories

Boyang Li, Alexander Zook, Nicholas Davis, and Mark O. Riedl
Goal-Driven Conceptual Blending: A Computational Approach for Creativity
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity (2012).
PDF Conference bibtexCreativity

Boyang Li, Stephen Lee-Urban, and Mark O. Riedl
Toward Autonomous Crowd-Powered Creation of Interactive Narratives
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (2012).
PDF Workshop bibtexInteractive Stories Human Computation

Boyang Li, Steve Lee-Urban, D. Scott Appling, and Mark O. Riedl
Automatically Learning to Tell Stories about Social Situations from the Crowd
Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (2012).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytelling Human Computation

Boyang Li, Stephen Lee-Urban, D. Scott Appling, and Mark O. Riedl
Crowdsourcing Narrative Intelligence
Advances in Cognitive Systems 2 (2012).
PDF Journal bibtexStorytelling Human Computation

Boyang Li, D. Scott Appling, Stephen Lee-Urban, and Mark O. Riedl
Learning Sociocultural Knowledge via Crowdsourced Examples
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Human Computation (2012).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytelling Value Alignment Human Computation

Boyang Li
Narrative Intelligence Without (Domain) Boundaries
Proceedings of the 8th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Doctoral Consortium (2012).
Conference bibtexStorytelling Human Computation

Vadim Bulitko, Mark O. Riedl, Arnav Jhala, Michael Buro, and Nathan Sturtevant
Recap of the Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
AI Magazine 33 (2012).
Journal bibtex

Ken Hartsook, Alexander Zook, Sauvik Das, and Mark O Riedl
Toward supporting stories with procedurally generated game worlds
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (2011).
IEEE Conference bibtexStorytelling Game Generation

Alexander Zook, Mark O. Riedl, and Brian Magerko
Understanding Human Creativity for Computational Play
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexCreativity

Alexander Zook, Mark O. Riedl, and Brian Magerko
Formally Modeling Pretend Object Play
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexCreativity

Hong Yu and Tyler Trawick
Personalized Procedural Content Generation to Minimize Frustration and Boredom based on Ranking Algorithm
Proceedings of the 7th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2011).
Conference bibtexGame Generation

Mark O. Riedl and Andrew Macvean
Addressing Scalability Limitations of Mobile Alternate Reality Games through End-User Content Authoring
Proceedings of the ACE 2011 Workshop on New Narrative Frontiers: Alternate Reality Games (2011).
Workshop bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Mark O. Riedl, Boyang Li, Hua Ai, and Ashwin Ram
Robust and Authorable Multiplayer Interactive Narrative Experiences
Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Creativity

Mark O. Riedl, Ken Hartsook, Sauvik Das, Alexander Zook, and Boyang Li
Game Forge: An Intelligent System that Generates Computer Role Playing Games
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Video Competition (2011).
Conference bibtexStorytelling Game Generation

Mark O. Riedl
Just-in-time Procedural Content Generation of Game Plots
2011 East Coast Game Conference (2011).
Conference bibtexStorytelling Game Generation

Mark O. Riedl
Interactive Social Stories for Young Adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders
Conference on the State of the Science on Work Accommodations (2011).
Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Healthcare

Brian O'Neill and Mark O. Riedl
Simulating the Everyday Creativity of Readers
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

Brian O'Neill and Mark Riedl
Toward a Computational Framework of Suspense and Dramatic Arc
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

Brian O'Neill, Andrea Piplica, Daniel Fuller, and Brian Magerko
A Knowledge-Based Framework for the Collaborative Improvisation of Scene Introductions
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2011).
Conference bibtexStorytelling Creativity

Brian O'Neill
Toward a Computational Model of Affective Responses to Stories for Augmenting Narrative Generation
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Doctoral Consortium (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

Michael Nitsche, Mark Riedl, and Nicholas Davis
Creativity, Cognition, and Machinima
Animation Journal 19 (2011).
Journal bibtexCreativity Cinematography

James Niehaus, Boyang Li, and Mark Riedl
Automated Scenario Adaptation in Support of Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexInteractive Stories Education

Andrew Macvean and Mark O. Riedl
Evaluating Enjoyment Within Alternate Reality Games
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Andrew MacVean and Mark O. Riedl
An Enjoyment Metric for the Evaluation of Alternate Reality Games
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Andrew MacVean, Sanjeet Hajarnis, Brandon Headrick, Aziel Ferguson, Chinmay Barve, Devika Karnik, and Mark O. Riedl
WeQuest: Scalable Alternate Reality Games Through End-User Content Authoring
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Boyang Li and Mark O. Riedl
Creative Gadget Design in Fictions: Generating Novel Object Types in Analogical Spaces
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (2011).
Conference bibtexStorytelling Creativity

Boyang Li and Mark O. Riedl
A Phone That Cures Your Flu: Generating Imaginary Gadgets in Fictions with Planning and Analogies
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (2011).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytelling Creativity

Sanjeet Hajarnis, Christina Leber, Hua Ai, Mark Riedl, and Ashwin Ram
A Case Base Planning Approach for Dialogue Generation in Digital Movie Design
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling Cinematography

Sanjeet Hajarnis, Brandon Headrick, Aziel Ferguson, and Mark O. Riedl
Scaling Mobile Alternate Reality Games with Geo-Location Translation
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexGame Generation

Sanjeet Hajarnis, Chinmay Barve, Devika Karnik, and Mark O. Riedl
Supporting End-User Authoring of Alternate Reality Games with Cross-Location Compatibility
Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexCreativity Game Generation

Nicholas Davis, Boyang Li, Brian O'Neill, and Mark O. Riedl
Distributed Creative Cognition in Digital Filmmaking
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexCreativity Cinematography

Fatima Boujarwah, Mark O. Riedl, Gregory Abowd, and Rosa Arriaga
REACT: Intelligent Authoring of Social Skills Instructional Modules for Adolescents with High-Functioning Autism
ACM SIGACCESS Newsletter 99 (2011).
PDF Journal bibtexHealthcare

Fatima Boujarwah, Mark O. Riedl, Gregory Abowd, and Rosa Arriaga
Building a Knowledge Base to Support the Authoring of Social Skills Instructional Modules
Proceedings of the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) (2011).
Conference bibtexHealthcare

Mark O. Riedl, David Thue, and Vadim Bulitko
Game AI as Storytelling
Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games (2010).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling Interactive Stories

Mark O. Riedl and Boyang Li
Creating Customized Virtual Experiences by Leveraging Human Creative Effort: A Desideratum
Workshop on Collaborative Human/AI Control for Interactive Experiences (2010).
PDF Workshop bibtexInteractive Stories Creativity Game Generation

Mark O. Riedl
Case-Based Story Planning: Creativity Through Exploration, Retrieval, and Analogical Transformation
Minds and Machines 20 (2010).
Journal bibtexStorytelling Creativity

Mark O. Riedl
A Comparison of Interactive Narrative System Approaches Using Human Improvisational Actors
Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies III (2010).
PDF Workshop bibtexInteractive Stories

Mark Riedl
Scalable Personalization of Interactive Experiences through Creative Automation
Computers In Entertainment 8 (2010).
PDF Journal bibtexInteractive Stories Creativity

Boyang Li and Mark O. Riedl
Planning for Individualized Experiences with Quest-Centric Game Adaptation
ICAPS 2010 Workshop on Planning in Games (2010).
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Boyang Li and Mark O. Riedl
An Offline Planning Approach to Game Plotline Adaptation
Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (2010).
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Boyang Li and Mark O. Riedl
Creating Customized Game Experiences by Leveraging Human Creative Effort: A Planning Approach
Agents for Games and Simulations (2010).
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Chinmay Barve, Sanjeet Hajarnis, Sanjeet Karnik, and Mark O. Riedl
WeQuest: A Mobile Alternate Reality Gaming Platform and Intelligent End-User Authoring Tools
Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (2010).
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Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
Narrative Planning: Balancing Plot and Character
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 39 (2010).
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David L. Roberts, Mark O. Riedl, and Charles Isbell
Beyond Adversarial: The Case for Game AI as Storytelling
Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the Digital Games Research Association (2009).
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Mark O. Riedl and Carlos Le'on
Generating Story Analogues
Proceedings of the 5th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2009).
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Brian O'Neill, Mark Riedl, and Michael Nitsche
Towards Intelligent Authoring Tools for Machinima Creation
Proceedings of the 27th CHI Conference, Works in Progress Track (2009).
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Brian O'Neill and Mark O. Riedl
Supporting Human Creative Story Authoring with a Synthetic Audience
Proceedings of the 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference (2009).
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James Niehaus and Mark O. Riedl
Scenario Adaptation: An Approach to Customizing Computer-Based Training Games and Simulations
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education Workshop on Intelligent Educational Games (2009).
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James Niehaus and Mark O. Riedl
Toward Scenario Adaptation for Learning
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) (2009).
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Brian Magerko, Waleed Manzoul, Mark Riedl, Allan Baumer, Daniel Fuller, Kurt Luther, and Celia Pearce
An Empirical Study of Cognition and Theatrical Improvisation
Proceedings of the 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference (2009).
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Jan Gillesen, Hwajung Hong, and Rosa Arriaga
Refl-ex: Towards Designing An Interactive and Intelligent Tool for Social Skill Development of Individuals with HFA/AS
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (2009).
Conference bibtexHealthcare

Jan Gillesen, Rosa Ariaga, and Mark O. Riedl
Towards Designing An Interactive and Intelligent Tool for Social Skill Development of Individuals with HFA
Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) (2009).
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Adam Fitzgerald, Gurlal Kahlon, and Mark O. Riedl
A Computational Model of Emotional Response to Stories
Proceedings of the 2nd Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2009).
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D. Scott Appling and Mark O. Riedl
The Role of Plot Understanding in Plot Generation
Intelligent Narrative Technologies II: Papers from the 2009 Spring Symposium (Technical Report SS-09-06) (2009).
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Mark O. Riedl and Brian O'Neill
Computer as Audience: A Strategy for Artificial Intelligence Support of Human Creativity
Proceedings of the 2009 CHI Workshop on Computational Creativity Support (2009).
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Mark O. Riedl, Jackie Isbell, Rosa Arriaga, Fatima Boujarwah, Hwajung Hong, and L. Juane Heflin
Toward Assisted Authoring of Social Skill Scenarios for Young Adults with High Functioning Autism
Working notes of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition (2009).
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Mark O. Riedl, Rosa Arriaga, Fatima Boujarwah, Hwajung Hong, Jackie Isbell, and L. Juane Heflin
Graphical Social Scenarios: Toward Intervention and Authoring for Adolescents with High Functioning Autism
Proceedings of the of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Virtual Healthcare Interaction (2009).
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Mark O. Riedl
Incorporating Authorial Intent into Generative Narrative Systems
Intelligent Narrative Technologies II: Papers from the 2009 Spring Symposium (Technical Report SS-09-06) (2009).
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Mei Si, Stacy Marsella, and Mark O. Riedl
Integrating Plot-Centric and Character-Centric Processes for Authoring Interactive Drama
Proceedings of the 4th AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2008).
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Mei Si, Stacy Marsella, and Mark O. Riedl
Interactive Drama Authoring with Plot and Character: An Intelligent System that Fosters Creativity
Creative Intelligent Systems: Papers from the 2008 Spring Symposium (2008).
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David Roberts, Charles Isbell, Mark O. Riedl, and Merrick Furst
On the Use of Computational Models of Influence for Managing Interactive Virtual Experiences
Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2008).
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Mark O. Riedl, Andrew Stern, Don M. Dini, and Jason M. Alderman
Dynamic Experience Management in Virtual Worlds for Entertainment, Education, and Training
International Transactions on System Science and Applications 3 (2008).
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Mark O. Riedl
Intelligent Experience Management for Virtual Worlds
TCS Innovation Labs Workshop on Virtual Reality and its Applications to Enterprises (2008).
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Mark O. Riedl
Computationally Creative Search for Stories
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC) (2008).
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Brian S. Magerko and Mark O. Riedl
What Happens Next?: Toward an Empirical Investigation of Improvisational Theatre
Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity (2008).
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Mark O. Riedl and Neha Sugandh
Story Planning with Vignettes: Toward Overcoming the Content Production Bottleneck
Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2008).
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Mark O. Riedl, Jonathan P. Rowe, and David K. Elson
Toward Intelligent Support of Authoring Machinima Media Content: Story and Visualization
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN) (2008).
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Mark O. Riedl and Carlos Le'on
Toward Vignette-Based Story Generation for Drama Management Systems
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN), Workshop on Integrating Technologies for Interactive Stories (2008).
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Mark O. Riedl
Intelligent Narrative Computing: Creativity, Sense-Making, and Engagement
3rd International Colloquium in Creativity, Cognition, and Computers (2008).
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Mark O. Riedl
Vignette-Based Story Planning: Creativity Through Exploration and Retrieval
Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity (2008).
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David L. Roberts, Mark O. Riedl, and Charles L. Isbell
Opportunities for Machine Learning to Impact Interactive Narrative
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Machine Learning and Games (MALAGA) (2007).
Workshop bibtexInteractive Stories

David K. Elson and Mark O. Riedl
A Lightweight Intelligent Virtual Cinematography System for Machinima Production
Proceedings of the 3rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2007).
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Mark O. Riedl
Emergent and Guided Narrative for Training and Education in Virtual Worlds
Institute for Creative Technologies Workshop on Intelligent Tutoring in Serious Games (2006).
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Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
Story Planning as Exploratory Creativity: Techniques for Expanding the Narrative Search Space
New Generation Computing 24 (2006).
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Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
From Linear Story Generation to Branching Story Graphs
IEEE Journal of Computer Graphics and Animation 26 (2006).
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Mark O. Riedl, Andrew Stern, and Don Dini
Mixing Story and Simulation in Interactive Narrative
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) (2006).
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Mark O. Riedl and Andrew Stern
Failing Believably: Toward Strong Autonomy and Strong Story in Interactive Narratives
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (2006).
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Mark O. Riedl and Andrew Stern
Believable Agents and Intelligent Story Adaptation for Interactive Storytelling
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE) (2006).
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Mark O. Riedl and Andrew Stern
Believable Agents and Intelligent Scenario Direction for Social and Cultural Leadership Training
Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS) (2006).
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Mark O. Riedl
Fabulist and Automated Story Director in the Little Red Riding Hood Domain
TIDSE 2006 Pre-Conference Demo Workshop on the Authoring Process in Interactive Storytelling (2006).
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Mark O. Riedl
Emergent and Guided Narrative for Training and Education in Virtual Worlds
League of World 3: Annual Colloquium on Online Simulations, Role-Playing, and Virtual Worlds (2006).
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Mark O. Riedl
Emergent and Guided Narrative for Training and Education in Virtual Worlds
Air Force Research Lab Workshop on Storytelling as an Instructional Method: In Search of Theoretical and Empirical Foundations (2006).
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Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
From Linear Story Generation to Branching Story Graphs
Proceedings of the 1st AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2005).
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Michael Lent, Mark O. Riedl, Paul Carpenter, Ryan McAlinden, and Paul Brobst
Increasing Replayability with Deliberative and Reactive Planning
Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) (2005).
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Robert St. Amant and Mark O. Riedl
Image Processing in Cognitive Models with SegMan
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII) (2005).
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R. Michael Young and Mark O. Riedl
Integrating Plan-Based Behavior Generation with Game Environments
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE) (2005).
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Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
An Objective Character Believability Evaluation Procedure for Multi-Agent Story Generation Systems
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) (2005).
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Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
Open-World Planning for Story Generation
Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2005).
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Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
From Linear Story Generation to Branching Story Graphs
Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) (2005).
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Mark O. Riedl, H. Chad Lane, Randall Hill, and William Swartout
Automated Story Direction and Intelligent Tutoring: Towards a Unifying Architecture
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) Workshop on Narrative Learning Environments (2005).
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Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
Story Planning as Exploratory Creativity: Techniques for Expanding the Narrative Search Space
Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop on Computational Creativity (2005).
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Mark O. Riedl
Towards Integrating AI Story Controllers and Game Engines: Reconciling World State Representations
Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop on Reasoning, Representation, and Learning in Computer Games (2005).
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R. Michael Young, Mark O. Riedl, Mark Branly, Arnav Jhala, R.J. Martin, and C.J. Saretto
An Architecture for Integrating Plan-Based Behavior Generation with Interactive Game Environments
Journal of Game Development 1 (2004).
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Mark O. Riedl
Narrative Generation: Balancing Plot and Character
(2004).
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Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
A Planning Approach to Story Generation for History Education
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Narrative and Interactive Learning Environments (NILE) (2004).
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Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
An Intent-Driven Planner for Multi-Agent Story Generation
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (2004).
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Mark O. Riedl
Equivalence between Narrative Mediation and Branching Story Graphs (Technical Report TR04-004)
(2004).
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R. Michael Young and Mark O. Riedl
Towards an Architecture for Intelligent Control of Narrative in Interactive Virtual Worlds
Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (2003).
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Mark O. Riedl, C.J. Saretto, and R. Michael Young
Managing Interaction between Users and Agents in a Multi-Agent Storytelling Environment
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (2003).
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Mark O. Riedl and Robert St. Amant
Social Navigation: Modeling, Simulation, and Experimentation
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) (2003).
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Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
Character-Focused Narrative Planning for Execution in Virtual Worlds
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Virtual Storytelling (ICVS) (2003).
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Mark O. Riedl
Actor Conference: Character-Focused Narrative Planning (Technical Report TR03-00)
(2003).
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David B. Christian, Mark O. Riedl, and R. Michael Young
Conversation Starters: Using Spatial Context to Initiate Dialogue in First Person Perspective Games
Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment: Papers from the 2002 Spring Symposium (Technical Report SS-02-01) (2002).
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Mark O. Riedl and Robert St. Amant
Towards Automated Exploration of Interactive Systems
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) (2002).
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Robert St. Amant, Christopher G. Healey, Mark O. Riedl, Sarat Kocherlakota, David A. Pegram, and Mika Torhola
Intelligent Visualization in a Planning Simulation
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (2001).
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Mark O. Riedl
A Computational Model and Classification Framework for Social Navigation
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) (2001).
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Robert St. Amant and Mark O. Riedl
A Perception/Action Substrate for Cognitive Modeling in HCI
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 55 (2000).
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David A. Pegram, Robert St. Amant, and Mark O. Riedl
An Approach to Visual Interaction in Mixed-Initiative Planning
Proceedings of the 1999 AAAI Mixed-Initiative Intelligence Workshop (1999).
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