Research Projects

  • Minstrel Remixed

    Almost two decades ago, Scott R. Turner created MINSTREL, a program that could creatively manufacture cohesive stories without the need for human input.Unfortunately, MINSTREL is currently unavailable and was written in an old variant of LISP. Minstrel Remixed is an attempt to recreate MINSTREL using Scala.

  • what if im the bad guy

    An experimental augmented reality documentary based on the stories of three US soldiers in Afghanistan and three unarmed civilians they shot and killed in early 2010.

  • The Prepared Partner

    How do you help a woman in labor? The Prepared Partner draws on childbirth education materials to help people feel physically and emotionally supported throughout labor and childbirth.

  • Kodu AI Lab

    A set of extensions to Kodu Game Lab to enable the creation of games based on dynamic relationships, social interactions, and storytelling.

  • SIREN

    An international effort to create social games for conflict resolution based on natural interaction.

  • GrailGM

    A run-time game master that offers quests and actions to the player based on their history and current world state.

  • StarCraft Spectator

    Automated camera control for watching StarCraft games.

  • Smart Photo Cropping

    A project that uses composition rules to automatically crop human-annotated photographs, based on learnings from the Panorama project.

  • Panorama

    A casual game that collects data about what people consider good composition in photography.

  • Personage

    An expressive generator based on the Big 5 model of personality.

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The Center for Games and Playable Media acknowledges the support of many partners: