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DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Simulating the Storytelling Qualities of Life: Telling Stories with the Sims
The stories vs. games debate has been prominent during the early years of game studies, and few other perspectives have been introduced to the discussion. In the paper, Game Resea...
Satu Heliö
CAEPIA
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Mixed Narrative and Dialog Content Planning Based on BDI Agents
There exist various narrative systems, focused on different parts of the complex process of story generation. Some of them are oriented to content planning, and some other to sent...
Carlos León, Samer Hassan, Pablo Gerv&aacut...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
How Did You Get to Know That? A Traceable Word-of-Mouth Algorithm
Word-of-mouth communication has been shown to play a key role in a variety of environments such as viral marketing and virus spreading. A family of algorithms, generally known as ...
Manuel Cebrián, Enrique Frías-Mart&i...
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
112views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Network bargaining: algorithms and structural results
We consider models for bargaining in social networks, in which players are represented by vertices and edges represent bilateral opportunities for deals between pairs of players. ...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Michael Kearns, Sanjeev Khanna