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Items in this Collection
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Fall 2015
Brammadesam Manavalan, Yathirajan
Displaying believable emotional reactions in virtual characters is required in applications ranging from virtual-reality trainers to video games. Manual scripting is the most frequently used method and enables an arbitrarily high fidelity of the emotions displayed. However, scripting is labor...
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Fall 2013
Interactive Storytelling (IS) acknowledges that people want to be participants in the unfolding of a story plot. Given the complex nature of IS, Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods can be called upon to improve and enhance interactive stories in video games. In the past decade, a number of...
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Solving Witness-type Triangle Puzzles Faster with an Automatically Learned Human-Explainable Predicate
DownloadFall 2023
The Witness is a game with difficult combinatorial puzzles that are challenging for both human players and artificial intelligence based solvers. Indeed, the number of candidate solution paths to the largest puzzle considered in this thesis is on the order of 10^(15) and search-based solvers can...