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08/30/2023
Knowing Your Annotator: Rapidly Testing the Reliability of Affect Annotation
The laborious and costly nature of affect annotation is a key detrimenta...
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07/20/2023
Towards General Game Representations: Decomposing Games Pixels into Content and Style
On-screen game footage contains rich contextual information that players...
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05/18/2023
From the Lab to the Wild: Affect Modeling via Privileged Information
How can we reliably transfer affect models trained in controlled laborat...
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04/04/2023
Controllable Exploration of a Design Space via Interactive Quality Diversity
This paper introduces a user-driven evolutionary algorithm based on Qual...
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03/13/2023
Architext: Language-Driven Generative Architecture Design
Architectural design is a highly complex practice that involves a wide d...
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10/14/2022
The Invariant Ground Truth of Affect
Affective computing strives to unveil the unknown relationship between a...
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09/07/2022
Open-Ended Evolution for Minecraft Building Generation
This paper proposes a procedural content generator which evolves Minecra...
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08/26/2022
Play with Emotion: Affect-Driven Reinforcement Learning
This paper introduces a paradigm shift by viewing the task of affect mod...
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08/26/2022
Generative Personas That Behave and Experience Like Humans
Using artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically test a game remains ...
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08/25/2022
Supervised Contrastive Learning for Affect Modelling
Affect modeling is viewed, traditionally, as the process of mapping meas...
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07/04/2022
Game State Learning via Game Scene Augmentation
Having access to accurate game state information is of utmost importance...
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06/20/2022
Revisiting lp-constrained Softmax Loss: A Comprehensive Study
Normalization is a vital process for any machine learning task as it con...
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06/13/2022
Learning Task-Independent Game State Representations from Unlabeled Images
Self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques have been widely used to learn...
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05/02/2022
Seeding Diversity into AI Art
This paper argues that generative art driven by conformance to a visual ...
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04/14/2022
RankNEAT: Outperforming Stochastic Gradient Search in Preference Learning Tasks
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a premium optimization method for t...
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12/11/2021
Architectural Form and Affect: A Spatiotemporal Study of Arousal
How does the form of our surroundings impact the ways we feel? This pape...
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10/06/2021
"What Artists Want": Elicitation of Artist Requirements to Feed the Design on a New Collaboration Platform for Creative Work
Aiming at designing a decentralized platform to support grassroot initia...
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10/03/2021
Towards General Models of Player Experience: A Study Within Genres
To which degree can abstract gameplay metrics capture the player experie...
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09/30/2021
AffectGAN: Affect-Based Generative Art Driven by Semantics
This paper introduces a novel method for generating artistic images that...
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09/24/2021
Go-Blend behavior and affect
This paper proposes a paradigm shift for affective computing by viewing ...
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07/22/2021
Privileged Information for Modeling Affect In The Wild
A key challenge of affective computing research is discovering ways to r...
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06/18/2021
Contrastive Learning of Generalized Game Representations
Representing games through their pixels offers a promising approach for ...
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04/18/2021
Monte Carlo Elites: Quality-Diversity Selection as a Multi-Armed Bandit Problem
A core challenge of evolutionary search is the need to balance between e...
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04/18/2021
ARCH-Elites: Quality-Diversity for Urban Design
This paper introduces ARCH-Elites, a MAP-Elites implementation that can ...
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04/06/2021
The Affect Game AnnotatIoN (AGAIN) Dataset
How can we model affect in a general fashion, across dissimilar tasks, a...
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03/29/2021
Pairing Character Classes in a Deathmatch Shooter Game via a Deep-Learning Surrogate Model
This paper introduces a surrogate model of gameplay that learns the mapp...
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03/28/2021
Playing Against the Board: Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms Against Pandemic
Competitive board games have provided a rich and diverse testbed for art...
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03/22/2021
SuSketch: Surrogate Models of Gameplay as a Design Assistant
This paper introduces SuSketch, a design tool for first person shooter l...
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03/22/2021
Transforming Exploratory Creativity with DeLeNoX
We introduce DeLeNoX (Deep Learning Novelty Explorer), a system that aut...
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03/21/2021
Collaborative Agent Gameplay in the Pandemic Board Game
While artificial intelligence has been applied to control players' decis...
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03/21/2021
10 Years of the PCG workshop: Past and Future Trends
As of 2020, the international workshop on Procedural Content Generation ...
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01/26/2021
The Pixels and Sounds of Emotion: General-Purpose Representations of Arousal in Games
What if emotion could be captured in a general and subject-agnostic fash...
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07/12/2020
Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Procedural Content Generators
Tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) and procedural content generators ca...
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01/23/2020
I Feel I Feel You: A Theory of Mind Experiment in Games
In this study into the player's emotional theory of mind of gameplaying ...
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07/09/2019
Procedural Content Generation through Quality Diversity
Quality-diversity (QD) algorithms search for a set of good solutions whi...
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07/04/2019
From Pixels to Affect: A Study on Games and Player Experience
Is it possible to predict the affect of a user just by observing her beh...
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07/01/2019
PAGAN: Video Affect Annotation Made Easy
How could we gather affect annotations in a rapid, unobtrusive, and acce...
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06/11/2019
Two-step Constructive Approaches for Dungeon Generation
This paper presents a two-step generative approach for creating dungeons...
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01/31/2019
Your Gameplay Says it All: Modelling Motivation in Tom Clancy's The Division
Is it possible to predict the motivation of players just by observing th...
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09/28/2018
DATA Agent
This paper introduces DATA Agent, a system which creates murder mystery ...
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07/06/2018
Quality Diversity Through Surprise
Quality diversity is a recent evolutionary computation paradigm which ma...
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05/30/2018
Data-driven Design: A Case for Maximalist Game Design
Maximalism in art refers to drawing on and combining multiple different ...
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02/19/2018
Automated Playtesting with Procedural Personas through MCTS with Evolved Heuristics
This paper describes a method for generative player modeling and its app...
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02/14/2018
Who Killed Albert Einstein? From Open Data to Murder Mystery Games
This paper presents a framework for generating adventure games from open...
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06/08/2017
Surprise Search for Evolutionary Divergence
Inspired by the notion of surprise for unconventional discovery we intro...
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