Aaron A. Reed

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Aaron A. Reed is a writer, designer, and researcher who is known for his work in the field of digital storytelling. He has a background in computer science and digital arts and has received recognition for his work in a variety of different contexts, including video games, tabletop roleplaying, and traditional publishing. Reed has spoken about digital storytelling at a range of conferences and events and has had his work shown at various festivals and exhibitions. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and a MFA in Digital Arts and New Media and currently lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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Prom week
J McCoy, M Treanor, B Samuel, AA Reed… – … of Digital Games, 2012 – dl.acm.org
… As a result, many games end up being about physical conflict, as the physical simulation is … in puzzle games such as Angry Birds support many emergent solutions to game challenges, …

Social story worlds with Comme il Faut
…, M Treanor, B Samuel, AA Reed… – … and AI in Games, 2014 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Through the development and release of Prom Week, a complete game using CiF as its narrative engine, we show how the system successfully creates complex narratives that are …

Changeful tales: design-driven approaches toward more expressive storygames
AA Reed – 2017 – search.proquest.com
… I will then show, however, how a deep understanding of adventure games can guide our interpretation of contemporary games and point towards new design directions, through a close …

The ensemble engine: Next-generation social physics
B Samuel, AA Reed, P Maddaloni… – … of Digital Games  …, 2015 – aaronareed.net
… Engine was utilized in a non-disclosed, complete game prototype in collaboration with a major game studio, for which we expect to report to the game community within a year. …

Author assistance visualizations for Ice-Bound, a combinatorial narrative.
J Garbe, AA Reed, M Dickinson, N Wardrip-Fruin… – FDG, 2014 – fdg2014.org
… By using these visualizations during the creation of Ice-Bound (an interactive narrative iPad game) we were able to author content within a large combinatorial possibility space, and …

Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider
AA Reed, J Murray, A Salter – 2020 – books.google.com
… Anastasia would like to thank the collaborators, mentors, and friends from media and game studies who have influenced this work: Stuart Moulthrop, Aaron Reed, Matt Kirschenbaum, …

Ice-Bound: Combining richly-realized story with expressive gameplay.
AA Reed, J Garbe, N Wardrip-Fruin, M Mateas – FDG, 2014 – fdg2014.org
… game that uses dynamic story techniques. As both fiction writers and game designers, we wanted to create a literary game … [19] AA Reed. A sequence of possibilities: Constructive fictions…

Introducing story sampling: Preliminary results of a new interactive narrative evaluation technique.
B Samuel, J McCoy, M Treanor, AA Reed, M Mateas… – FDG, 2014 – Citeseer
… Although the nature of the interaction changes from game to game, player interaction in … Data mining and visualization techniques are commonly used in games to understand how …

Sharing authoring with algorithms: Procedural generation of satellite sentences in text-based interactive stories
AA Reed – … workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Games, 2012 – dl.acm.org
… While PCG has been successfully used to assist with aspects of many released games, from Rogue to Minecraft, such generation is rarely used to affect the narrative (if one is even …

Telling stories with maps and rules: using the interactive fiction language “inform 7” in a creative writing workshop
AA Reed – Creative writing in the digital age: theory, practice, and …, 2015 – aaronareed.net
… and logical thought, of writing prose and crafting code, and that duality makes it an exciting entry point into the creative writing process for a generation weaned on digital games. …

Sharing authoring with algorithms
AA Reed – Proc. Procedural Content Generation in Games, 2012 – Citeseer
… While PCG has been successfully used to assist with aspects of many released games, from Rogue to Minecraft, such generation is rarely used to affect the narrative (if one is even …

Ice-Bound: A novel of reconfiguration.
J Garbe, AA Reed, N Wardrip-Fruin, M Mateas – FDG, 2014 – fdg2014.org
… Ice-bound is a new story game combining an iPad and a printed book, using procedural story techniques and augmented reality to create a multilayered, professional-quality …

Deterring predator pursuit and attracting potential mates? The conspicuous melanized tail display of the zebra-tailed lizard
AA Reed, MS Lattanzio – Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 2022 – Taylor & Francis
… AA Reed analyzed the lizard scans and sprint videos to calculate tail morphology and sprint speed data, respectively. AA Reed wrote the first draft of the manuscript and both authors …

Re-Visualizing Afghanistan in “what if im the bad guy”: Using Palimpsest to Create an AR Documentary+ Interview, Statement, Artwork
AA Reed, P Toews – Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 2013 – journals.gold.ac.uk
… The game art installation Waco Resurrection asks participant to wear Vr helmets that put them in the head of cult leader David Koresh, pumping disturbing voices from God into the …

Analysis of ReGEN as a Graph-Rewriting System for Quest Generation……………….. B. Kybartas and C. Verbrugge 228
J McCoy, M Treanor, B Samuel, AA Reed, M Mateas… – computer.org
… SPECIAL ISSUE ON COMPUTATIONAL NARRATIVE AND GAMES … Call for Papers—The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND AI IN GAMES Special …

Church attendance and alcohol consumption level: reasons for not drinking alcohol among college students.
AA Amankwaa, W Reed Jr, D Owens – International Journal of …, 2012 – cabdirect.org
This paper explores the relationship between church attendance (religiosity) and reasons for not drinking alcohol among undergraduate college student in historically black university. …

Outcomes for school-aged children with Aural Atresia
A Hyland, WL Arnott, E Rushbrooke… – The Journal of Deaf …, 2020 – academic.oup.com
This study compared the language, reading, classroom, and quality of life outcomes of primary school-aged children with aural atresia (AA) to matched controls. Participants included 10 …

Generating natural language retellings from Prom Week play traces
C Antoun, M Antoun, JO Ryan, B Samuel… – … of the PCG in Games, 2015 – pcg.fdg2015.org
… game, we envision farreaching implications: if a game engine can produce natural language describing what has happened in the world, then content such as in-game … [22] AA Reed. A …

Athlete perceptions of a monitoring and strength and conditioning program
JP Reed, M Palmero, K Sato, CT Hsieh, M Stone… – Sport …, 2017 – researchgate.net
… Practice in itself is both anaerobic and aerobic in nature, typically consisting of drills or games followed by a rest period. As is stated before, the offseason is spent primarily on …

Tools for videogame discovery built using latent semantic analysis
JO Ryan, E Kaltman, M Mateas… – … of Digital Games, 2015 – fdg2015.org
… games… game enthusiasts who may seek out new games to play or may use the tool to learn more about the medium, for instance, by exploring the network to find and learn about games …

Storygameness: understanding repeat experience and the desire for closure in storygames
A Mitchell, L Kway, BJ Lee – DiGRA 2020–Proceedings of the 2020 DiGRA …, 2020 – digra.org
… of the game and allows for a rich, nuanced analysis of the gameplay experience. For our study, all three authors played all three games.… the two games or claiming that these games are …

Expressive Processing: Interpretation and Creation
N Wardrip-Fruin – The Routledge Companion to Media Studies …, 2018 – taylorfrancis.com
… , players only see the surface of a game. Playtesting might tell us that the … game for the critical discussions we had about issues such as how “popularity” should function in a game…

Orchestrating game generation
A Liapis, GN Yannakakis, MJ Nelson… – … on Games, 2018 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of the corresponding domains so that the final game has the desired functional and aesthetic … identifies game facet orchestration as the central challenge for AI-based game generation, …

Effects of gender on perception and interpretation of video game character behavior and emotion
N Desai, R Zhao, D Szafron – … Intelligence and AI in Games, 2016 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… nuanced role of the character in the game. While there is still a significant amount of gender stereotyping in games, some game developers are acknowledging the problem and even …

A panorama of artificial and computational intelligence in games
GN Yannakakis, J Togelius – … Intelligence and AI in Games, 2014 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… the ten game AI areas within the game AI field and we provide three alternative views over game AI: one with respect to the methods used, one with respect to the end users within game …

Kismet: a small social simulation language
A Summerville, B Samuel – … , A., Samuel, B.(2020, September). Kismet: a …, 2020 – ceur-ws.org
… easily digestible by end users (eg, stories, games, theatrical performances, audio plays), it … authoring of scenario content modules, such as those used in table-top role-playing games. …

CiF-CK: An architecture for social NPCs in commercial games
M Guimaraes, P Santos, A Jhala – … Intelligence and Games (CIG …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Thus this is the type of game where the implementation of a Social Agent Architecture can … game of this class: “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” [11]. The choice of this particular game was …

A prototype using territories and an affordance tree for social simulation gameplay.
T Geishauser, YG Cheong, MJ Nelson – FDG, 2014 – bt-medien.de
Smart objects are a representation strategy for games and virtual worlds, in which information about object interactions is distributed into the objects themselves: an object knows how it …

A Lightweight Videogame Dialogue Manager.
JO Ryan, M Mateas, N Wardrip-Fruin – DiGRA/FDG, 2016 – academia.edu
… While conversations in Versu, Façade, and Bot Colony take place in real time, in our game, as in the LabLabLab games, conversation proceeds by discrete turns. However, like the …

Protagonist vs antagonist provant: Narrative generation as counter planning
J Porteous, A Lindsay – … of the 18th International Conference on …, 2019 – ifaamas.org
Our motivation in this work is to develop a narrative generation mechanism for Interactive Storytelling that removes some of the authoring burden that is inherent to plan-based …

A simple method for evolving large character social networks
J Ryan, M Mateas, N Wardrip-Fruin – … Social Believability in Games, 2016 – researchgate.net
… But while world generation in Dwarf Fortress integrates myriad concerns—terrain, climate, demography, war, more—that may not be at play in other applications (eg, games outside …

Tension space analysis for emergent narrative
BA Kybartas, C Verbrugge… – … Transactions on Games, 2020 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Although we authored the game ourselves, it is nonetheless valuable … game designed using the possible worlds model. Designed as a loosely Jane Austen inspired matchmaking game…

A choice-based model of character personality in narrative
JC Bahamón, RM Young – 2012 Workshop on …, 2012 – liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu
… As narrative delivery mechanisms such as digital games and virtual environments become more complex and detailed, the effort necessary to create characters that have distinct …

Enhancing wave function collapse with design-level constraints
A Sandhu, Z Chen, J McCoy – … on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… Man’s Sky, a game that relies on online PCG, which leads to much of the game becoming generic after a few hours of play. Players criticized the game for its repetitiveness during initial …

Interactive storytelling paradigms and representations: a humanities-based perspective
H Koenitz – Handbook of digital games and entertainment …, 2016 – researchgate.net
… has been proposed as a model for activist video games (Frasca 2001). A further complication … behavior generation with interactive game environments. J. Game. Dev. 1(1), 51-70 (2004) …

A server-side framework for the execution of procedurally generated quests in an MMORPG
J Doran, I Parberry – 2015 – ianparberry.com
… Interfacing a quest generator to a large, commercial quality MMORPG game engine is a complex task that taxes our abstractions to the limit. We selected the game Everquest for this …

Designing user-character dialog in interactive narratives: An exploratory experiment
B Endrass, C Klimmt, G Mehlmann… – … and AI in Games, 2013 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… video games has explicitly shown that feelings of autonomy and impact on ongoing game events are key drivers of game enjoyment [11] [12]. On the other hand, round-based dialogue …

Mysterious murder-mcts-driven murder mystery generation
C Jaschek, T Beckmann, JA Garcia… – … Conference on Games …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… mystery video games and examine how they approach the various challenges of the genre, survey projects that have used procedural generation in the context of game narratives and …

Amino acid concentrations in entire ground rabbit carcasses with and without gastrointestinal tracts and the effect of freezer storage
TJ Owens – 2016 – search.proquest.com
Feeding whole prey diets to exotic feline species is common and has increased in popularity for domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus). However, taurine deficiency dilated …

Red Guards Seize Offices Of Peking Civic Party Committee
S Complains, TUN Council, OI Acts – digitalcommons.unomaha.edu
… When the historic space treaty was aa-reed upon during the closing days of the last UN General Assembly session we hailed the event as the beglnnlng of the second post war detente …

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DE Staff – opensiuc.lib.siu.edu
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Friendly lords implementing an artificial intelligence social architecture in Mount& Blade II: Bannerlord
DC Ricardo – 2021 – sapientia.ualg.pt
… In the game in which this study takes place (respectively Mount&Blade II: Bannerlord), … the CiF architecture, also used before in some popular games like Skyrim and Conan Exiles. It is a …

A genetic approach to the relationship between taste perception and lifestyle in Africa.
MSS Oliveira – 2012 – repositorio-aberto.up.pt
Em primeiro lugar queria agradecer à minha orientadora, Professora Maria João Prata, por me ter dado a oportunidade de participar neste projecto, prontificando-se sempre a …

W estern Homecoming’Bill Opens Tomorrow
AI Club – core.ac.uk
… <-heerlng section nt Saturda}’s game thus adding to the collcae atmosphere which should by … state educators aa:reed the’ 6. Protection of the tencher In supported collett’S uamed ·the …

Virtual taste and smell technologies for multisensory internet and virtual reality
AD Cheok, K Karunanayaka – 2018 – Springer
Our goal is to transform Internet and virtual reality communication into a multisensory experience by the digitization of the smell and taste senses. This will allow people to create, …

Asynchronous Dialogue System
K Nguyen, A Andersson – 2022 – diva-portal.org
… the ability to converse within video games, our study shows it … game encompassing two variations of the same scenario. The study involved playing both variations of the same game, …

Multimodal Markers of Persuasive Speech: Designing a Virtual Debate Coach.
V Petukhova, M Raju, H Bunt – INTERSPEECH, 2017 – isca-speech.org
The study presented in this paper is carried out to support debate performance assessment in the context of debate skills training. The perception of good performance as a debater is …

Dimensions, application, and outcomes of person-centered self-management interventions for those living with type 2 diabetes: a scoping review
S Lafontaine, P Bourgault, A Girard… – Patient Education and …, 2020 – Elsevier
… The authors proposed that using photos and games with patients seemed relevant to adopting a PCA [43]. Several strategies were used by the authors to work with patients’ beliefs and …

A model of character affinity for agent-based story generation
G Méndez, P Gervás, C León – 9th International Conference on …, 2014 – ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk
One of the aspects that is used to keep the reader’s interest in a story is the network of relationships among the characters that take part in that story. We can model the relationship …

Coordination Complexes of 1, 2, 3-Dithiazolyl-o-naphthoquinone Ligands with Potential Conductive and Magnetic Applications
D Dinsdale – 2019 – atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca
This thesis presents coordination complexes of 1,2,3-dithiazole (DTA) molecules, 4-hydroxy-naphtho[1,2-d][1,2,3]dithiazol-5-one (o-DTANQOH) and 4-methoxy-naphtho[1,2-d][1,2,3]…

“I didn’t tell you sooner because i didn’t know how to handle it myself.” Developing a virtual reality program to support HIV-status disclosure decisions
KE Muessig, KA Knudtson, K Soni… – Digital culture & …, 2018 – ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Adding these details in Mudbox adds millions of polygons, far beyond what a game engine can handle in real-time, but the fine details can be converted into texture data. The final result …

What are the components of effective chronic condition self-management education interventions for children with asthma, cystic fibrosis, and diabetes? A systematic …
N Saxby, S Beggs, M Battersby, S Lawn – Patient education and counseling, 2019 – Elsevier
… Play techniques were primarily used with school-aged children through the use of games, … had been coloured in, then the entire group received a reward, in the form of a small game. …

From national to global: Writing and translating the Aotearoa New Zealand short story
JM Wilson – Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2020 – Taylor & Francis
In today’s global literary marketplace, the short story from Aotearoa New Zealand reaches out to international and national reading publics thanks to the flourishing local literary scene …

A queueing model with independent arrivals, and its fluid and diffusion limits
H Honnappa, R Jain, AR Ward – Queueing Systems, 2015 – Springer
We study a queueing model with ordered arrivals, which can be called the $$\varDelta _{(i)}/GI/1$$ ? ( i ) / G I / 1 queue. Here, customers from a fixed, finite, population independently …

Antioxidants in potatoes: A functional view on one of the major food crops worldwide
H Hellmann, A Goyer, DA Navarre – Molecules, 2021 – mdpi.com
With a growing world population, accelerating climate changes, and limited arable land, it is critical to focus on plant-based resources for sustainable food production. In addition, plants …

No room to roam: King Cobras reduce movement in agriculture
BM Marshall, M Crane, I Silva… – Movement …, 2020 – movementecologyjournal …
Studying animal movement provides insights into how animals react to land-use changes. As agriculture expands, we can use animal movement to examine how animals change their …

MeerKLASS: MeerKAT large area synoptic survey
MG Santos, M Cluver, M Hilton, M Jarvis… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 – arxiv.org
… The large requests of time planned with SKA1 need to be efficiently used in a commensal way by providing game changing results in different fronts, something that we will be testing …

Demand for medical male circumcision for HIV prevention: the influence of economic and psychological factors and their policy implications
SJ Lubinga – 2017 – digital.lib.washington.edu
Background: Male Circumcision (MMC) of adolescent boys and men is an effective and potentially cost-effective intervention for the prevention of HIV. Most high HIV burden, low MMC …

Motivating people to sustain healthy lifestyles using persuasive technology: a pilot study of Korean Americans with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes
MT Kim, KB Kim, TH Nguyen, J Ko, J Zabora… – Patient education and …, 2019 – Elsevier
Objective To test the efficacy of a hybrid model of the self-help intervention program (hSHIP), which combines a mobile version of SHIP (mSHIP) and personal coaching, to address …

The Official Journal Of The Academia Brasileira De Neurologia
O Lange, ASF Netto, RJ Gagliardi, P SP, LHM Castro… – arquivos.info.ufrn.br
Volume 74, Suppl 1, 2016, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Page 1 ISSN 0004-282X Volume 74, Suppl 1, 2016, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Page 2 Editors-in-Chief José Antonio Livramento, SP Luís …

Maternal SSRI treatment during offspring development results in long-term behavioral, cellular, and neuroimaging disruptions
SE Maloney, R Rahn, S Akula, MA Rieger… – bioRxiv, 2017 – biorxiv.org
Serotonergic dysregulation is implicated in psychiatric disorders, including autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Epidemiological studies suggest selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (…

The different facets of extracellular calcium sensors: old and new concepts in calcium-sensing receptor signalling and pharmacology
A Gerbino, M Colella – International journal of molecular sciences, 2018 – mdpi.com
The current interest of the scientific community for research in the field of calcium sensing in general and on the calcium-sensing Receptor (CaR) in particular is demonstrated by the still …

A large sky survey with MeerKAT
MG Santos, P Bull, S Camera, S Chen, J Fonseca… – 2018 – authors.library.caltech.edu
… The large requests of time planned with SKA1 need to be efficiently used in a commensal way by providing game changing results in different fronts, something that we will be testing …

Technology innovation: advancing capacities for the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species
B Martinez, JK Reaser, A Dehgan, B Zamft, D Baisch… – Biological …, 2020 – Springer
… Genetics Laboratory in Anchorage, Alaska has developed a species-specific eDNA assay that is being used to test water samples collected by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game …

“Losing the phobia:” Understanding how HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis facilitates bridging the serodivide among men who have sex with men
KA Koester, XA Erguera, MS Kang Dufour… – Frontiers in public …, 2018 – frontiersin.org
The use of HIV serostatus information has played a pivotal role in partner selection norms. A phenomenon known as serosorting is the practice of selecting a partner based on a …

Mouse models of adrenocortical tumors
KJ Basham, HA Hung, AM Lerario… – Molecular and cellular …, 2016 – Elsevier
The molecular basis of the organogenesis, homeostasis, and tumorigenesis of the adrenal cortex has been the subject of intense study for many decades. Specifically, characterization …

Simply psychology
MW Eysenck – 2017 – taylorfrancis.com
… Violent video game effects on aggression, empathy, and prosocial behavior in Eastern and Western countries: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 151–173. Anderson, …

High milk consumption does not affect prostate tumor progression in two mouse models of benign and neoplastic lesions
S Bernichtein, N Pigat, T Capiod, F Boutillon… – PLoS …, 2015 – journals.plos.org
Epidemiological studies that have investigated whether dairy (mainly milk) diets are associated with prostate cancer risk have led to controversial conclusions. In addition, no existing …

Development of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for the Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Enantioenriched Diarylalkanes and Homopropargylic …
CA Osborne – 2015 – search.proquest.com
… I will always remember our Jarvo lab game nights! Thank you also to Lucas Erickson, Luke Hanna, Mikhail Konev, Ruben Martinez, Thom Endean, Dave Dawson, George Johnson, …

Assessment of the obese child or adolescent
SE Barlow, SA Taylor, E Hastings… – Treatment of the obese …, 2014 – Springer
The evaluation of a child or adolescent for obesity begins with weight and height measurements to calculate body mass index percentile. A thorough medical evaluation should be done …

Canagliflozin impedes ischemic hind-limb recovery in the setting of diabetes
M Nalugo, N Harroun, C Li, L Belaygorod… – Vascular …, 2021 – journals.sagepub.com
There is a reported increased incidence of lower extremity amputations in individuals with diabetes who are treated with canagliflozin (an SGLT2 receptor inhibitor). It is unclear whether …

High-Handle Hexagonal Barbell Deadlift 1RM Differences Between Collegiate Female Athletes with and without Low Back Pain or Injury
C Buckman – 2019 – search.proquest.com
High-Handle Hexagonal Barbell Deadlift (HHBD) has been suggested to be an appropriate variation for individuals with low back pain or injury (LBP/I), but this had not been tested for …