Interests

I am interested in the application of social sciences results in the area of interactive storytelling. In particular, results related to user persuasion.

Current Projects


Publications

2011

  "I'm Sure I Made the Right Choice!" - Towards an Architecture to Influence Player's Behaviors in Interactive Stories

Rui Figueiredo and Ana Paiva, ICIDS - International Conference on Digital Interactive Storytelling, Springer, 2011

Persu - An architecture to apply persuasion in Interactive Storytelling

Rui Figueiredo and Ana Paiva, ACE - Advances in Computer Entertainment, ACM, 2011

2010

  "I want to slay that dragon" - Influencing Choice in Interactive Storytelling

Rui Figueiredo and Ana Paiva, ICIDS 2010 - The third International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, pg. 26-37, Springer, November, 2010

Affecting Choices in Interactive Storytelling

Rui Figueiredo and Ana Paiva, AAAI Fall Symposium in Computational Models of Narrative, November, 2010

Do you trust me or not? – Trust games in agent societies

Rui Figueiredo and João Carmo and Rui Prada, STAIRS’2010 – 5th European Starting AI Researcher Symposium, August, 2010

2009

  Want to Know How to Play the Game? Ask the ORACLE!.

Paola Rizzo and Michael Kriegel and Rui Figueiredo and Mei Yii Lim and Ruth Aylett , IVA - Intelligent Virtual Agents, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009

2008

  Emergent Stories Facilitated - An architecture to generate stories using intelligent synthetic characters

Rui Figueiredo and António Brisson and Ruth Aylett and Ana Paiva, ICIDS - Interactive Digital Storytelling, Springer, 2008

Managing emergent character-based narrative

Ruth Aylett and Anders Tychsen and M. Hitchens and Rui Figueiredo and C. D. Mata, INTETAIN - Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, 2008

So tell me what happened: turning agent-based interactive drama into comics

Tiago Alves and Ana Simões and Rui Figueiredo and Marco Vala and Ana Paiva and Ruth Aylett, International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - AAMAS 2008 , pg. 1269-1272, IFAMAAS, 2008

2007

  Agents that remember can tell stories: Integrating Autobiographic Memory into Emotional Agents

Wan Ching Ho and João Dias and Rui Figueiredo and Ana Paiva, AAMAS - Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2007

Authoring Emergent Narrative Based Games

Ruth Aylett and Sandy Louchart and Michael Kriegel and Rui Figueiredo and João Dias and Ana Paiva, , 2007

Authoring Emergent Narrative Based Games

Sandy Louchart and Ruth Aylett and Michael Kriegel and João Dias and Rui Figueiredo and Ana Paiva, Journal of Game Development, Vol. 3, pg. 19-37, 2007

Facilitating the Emergence of Educational Stories - Using emergent stories for pedagogical proposes

Rui Figueiredo and Ana Paiva and Ruth Aylett, NLE Workshop in AIED, 2007

2006

  Making It Up as You Go Along - Improvising Stories for Pedagogical Purposes

Ruth Aylett and Rui Figueiredo and Sandy Louchart and João Dias and Ana Paiva, IVA'2006 -Intelligent Virtual Agents, Springer, 2006

Shaping Emergent Narratives for a Pedagogical Application

Rui Figueiredo and João Dias and Ruth Aylett and Sandy Louchart and Ana Paiva

2005

  Watch and Feel: An Affective Interface in a Virtual Storytelling Environment

Rui Figueiredo and Ana Paiva, ACII - Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, pg. 915 - 922, Springer, 2005