CamJam: Using the Camelot Virtual Environment

Mr. Shirvani is a PhD student in the Narrative Intelligence Lab at the University of Kentucky. He is the primary architect of the Camelot virtual environment, and he will open the tutorial with an explanation of how Camelot is designed and a demonstration of how to use it's many features. Mr. Shirvani does research on plan-based models of emotion and affect for believable virtual characters in interactive virtual environments such as games, training simulations, and tutoring systems.

Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky where he directs the Narrative Intelligence Lab and teaches courses on artificial intelligence and game development. His Camelot demo (created jointly with Alireza Shirvani) will showcase intelligent agent behavior based on narrative planning. By reasoning about each agent's intentions and beliefs, and by considering the author's contrtains, a narrative planner can proactively decide what actions each NPC should take. Prof. Ware does research on narrative planning and story generation for virtual environments.

Dr. Harrison is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky where he directs the CORGI Lab and teaches courses on machine learning and game development. In his Camelot demo, the behaviors of all agents have been learned from via many sessions of multi-agent reinforcement learning. Prof. Harrison does research on machine learning, especially reinforcement learning, for training intelligent agents in the real and virtual worlds.

Dr. Samuel is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Orleans where he teaches courses on artificial intelligence and game design. His Camelot demo will showcase agents who react intelligently to one another using the Ensemble Social Physics Engine, which he helped to develop. Prof. Samuel is active in both computer science and improvisational theater performance, and his research explores the intersection of these interests, especially for narrative generation.

Dr. Martens is an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University where they direct the POEM Lab and teach courses on artificial intelligence and game design. Their Camelot demo will showcase agents whose behaviors are defined using Villanelle, an agent authoring language which combines scripting and generativity, using a logic-based foundation that unifies both. Dr. Martens does research on how formal reasoning tools can interface with human cognition, and their work has significant applications in virtual environments.

Dr. Eger is an Invited Professor at the University of Costa Rica where he directs the SLOTH Lab. His Camelot demo will be an automatically generated murder mystery, using a tool developed with Henry Mohr and backed by Ostari, an implementation of Dynamic Epistemic Logic developed jointly with Prof. Chris Martens. Prof. Eger does research on modeling the minds of intelligent agents to help them interface more naturally with people.