Automated story generation has been one of the long-standing challenges in NLP. Among
all dimensions of stories, suspense is very common in human-written stories but relatively …

Over the past decade, there has been growing interest in real-time assessment of student
engagement and motivation during interactions with educational software. Detecting …

Since the 18th century, the novel has been one of the defining forms of English writing, a
mainstay of popular entertainment and academic criticism. Despite its importance, however …

This paper describes a multimodal approach to detect viewers' engagement through psycho-
physiological affective signals. We investigate the individual contributions of the different …

A bottleneck in interactive storytelling is the authorial burden of writing narrative units, and
connecting them to the interactive narrative structure. To address this problem, we present a …

Narrative cognition is central to how humans reason and make sense of their experiences.
We create personal or natural narratives from the events of our lives which become a …

Narrative AI needs to model more than just action. In this paper, we investigate the Belief-
Desire-Intention (BDI) agent architecture to allow plots to be modelled in terms of character …

This paper presents an application regarding a recently developed extension of the widely
used relay-feedback PID auto-tuner. The proposed method consists of two steps: process …

Current approaches to story generation do not utilize models of human affect to create
stories with dramatic arc, suspense, and surprise. This paper describes current and future …

Computational Frameworks: Systems, Models and Applications provides an overview of
advanced perspectives that bridges the gap between frontline research and practical efforts …