Crystal Island Pedagogical Agents for Dynamic High-Performance Inquiry-Based Science Learning Environments
| | What happens when you leverage state-of-the-art artificial intelligence to create learning environments that are both effective and engaging? Center faculty member James Lester is collaborating with colleagues in the College of Education to build a narrative centered learning environment to teach students basics of microbiology. Read more... |
Longboard Intelligent Storyboarding for Machinima
| Michael Young and his students are developing a tablet-based storyboarding tool that can automatically generate machinima from storyboard sketches. Read more... | |
HI-FIVES Combining the fun of video games with the serious business of learning? 
| | Center faculty Len Annetta and Michael Young, together with partners from DELTA and the NC Department of Public Instruction are working with the Kenan Fellows Program to harness the potential of 3D games and game making to engage middle school students in their science and math curriculum. Read more... |
AugFrogImage processing in video games
Most interface agents interact with applications through an API, which provides a different perspective on a system than that of the user. What might we learn from interface agents that can interact with applications through their user interfaces, just as human users do? This project addresses perception, cognition, and interaction issues for these agents, which we call interface softbots. An offshoot of this effort has led to a project that imposes the interaction logic of video games on actual video, as in the proof-of-concept game, AugFrog. (Our interest is more in models of such games than the polish of implementation.) | |
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Previous Projects  | | MimesisThe Liquid Narrative research group at North Carolina State University's Computer Science Department uses techniques from Artificial Intelligence, Computer Gaming, Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual Reality and Cognitive Psychology to model narrative aspects of human interaction with computer systems. Our investigation is motivated by fundamental ideas from narrative theory and looks to provide computational models of interaction useful across a wide range of applications including
- education training
- entertainment
- computer-mediated communication
- collaboration and social interaction
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