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Career

· Professor of Digital Media & Artificial Intelligence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)2010–
· Faculty in the Digital Media Program, Georgia Institute of Technology2007–2010
· B.F.A. in Art (electronic and time-based media), Carnegie Mellon University
· B.S. in Logic and Computation, Carnegie Mellon University
· Master's degree in Interactive Telecommunication, New York University
· Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

Publications (160)

Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Position Paper
2020
93
cited
Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design
AAAI Spring Symposium: Intelligent Narrative Technologies II · 2009
76
cited
Style: A Computational and Conceptual Blending-Based Approach
The Structure of Style · 2010
62
cited
From 2, 772 segments to five personas: Summarizing a diverse online audience by generating culturally adapted personas
First Monday · 2018
49
cited
The Effects of Badges and Avatar Identification on Play and Making in Educational Games
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2018
47
cited
Shades of Computational Evocation and Meaning: The GRIOT System and Improvisational Poetry Generation
2005
38
cited
Slant: A Blackboard System to Generate Plot, Figuration, and Narrative Discourse Aspects of Stories
ICCC · 2013
38
cited
An approach to general videogame evaluation and automatic generation using a description language
IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games · 2014
35
cited
Style as a Choice of Blending Principles
AAAI Technical Report · 2004
35
cited
Generating Cultural Personas from Social Data: A Perspective of Middle Eastern Users
2017 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud Workshops (FiCloudW) · 2017
33
cited
Toward a Theory of Critical Computing; The Case of Social Identity Representation in Digital Media Applications
2009
32
cited
Exploring the Impact of Role Model Avatars on Game Experience in Educational Games
ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play · 2015
29
cited
Daydreaming with Intention: Scalable Blending-Based Imagining and Agency in Generative Interactive Narrative
AAAI Spring Symposium: Creative Intelligent Systems · 2008
27
cited
Toward avatar models to enhance performance and engagement in educational games
IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games · 2015
27
cited
Walking Blues Changes Undersea : Imaginative Narrative in Interactive Poetry Generation with the GRIOT System
2006
26
cited
Exploring the Impact of Avatar Color on Game Experience in Educational Games
CHI Extended Abstracts · 2016
25
cited
Mazzy: A STEM Learning Game
International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games · 2015
23
cited
Enabling Critical Self-Reflection through Roleplay with Chimeria: Grayscale
ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play · 2018
21
cited
Revealing Social Identity Phenomena in Videogames with Archetypal Analysis
2015
19
cited
Imagination, Computation, and Self- Expression: Situated Character and Avatar Mediated Identity
2012
17
cited
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