@inproceedings{gardone2025towards,
  title = {Towards a Process of Simulating Narrative Comprehension},
  author = {Gardone, Mica},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment \emph{(in press)}},
  year = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{nelson2025incomplete,
  title = {Accounting for Incomplete and Partially-ordered Observations within Classical Model-based Plan Recognition for Sensemaking of Information Storygames},
  author = {Nelson, Jennifer M. and Gardone, Mica and Sauma-Chac\'{o}n, Pablo and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment} \emph{(in press)},
  year = {2025}
}

Github Repository
Open Science Foundation Repository

@inproceedings{robertson2025state-space-viz,
  title = {State Space Visualization for Strong Story Experience Management Design},
  author = {Robertson, Justus and Genoese-Zerbi, Valentina and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment \emph{(in press)}},
  year = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{tehee2025pemmican,
  title = {The Pemmican Experience: Representing Indigenous Knowledge and Values in K-12 Classrooms},
  author = {Tehee, Melissa and Litts, Breanne K.  and Parry, Darren and Baggaley, Stuart and Jenkins, Jennifer and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Quayle, Kenden and Cawley, James},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Learning Sciences},
  pages = {2886-2888},
  year = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{ali2025computationally,
  title = {Computationally Simulating the Effect of Gaze Guidance on Interactive Event Segmentation within Immersive Virtual Environments},
  author = {Ali, Monthir and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence & eXtended and Virtual Reality},
  pages = {244-247},
  year = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{ali2025world,
  title = {World-space Cueing: A Geometrically-compact Modulation Technique for Subtle Gaze Direction in Head-mounted Virtual Reality Displays},
  author = {Ali, Monthir and Huang, Po-Jui and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence \& eXtended and Virtual Reality},
  pages = {10-18},
  year = {2025}}

@incollection{cardona-rivera2024indigenous,
  title = {Indigenous Futures in Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Paradox of Participation},
  author = {Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Alladin, J. Kaleo and Litts, Breanne K. and Tehee, Melissa},
  booktitle = {Teaching and Generative AI: Pedagogical Possibilities and Productive Tensions},
  editor = {Buyserie, Beth and Thurston, Travis N.},
  publisher = {Utah State University},
  address = {Logan, UT, USA},
  year = {2024}
}

Publisher's Website (Open Access Link)

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2024story,
  title = {The Story So Far on Narrative Planning},
  author = {Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Jhala, Arnav and Porteous, Julie and Young, R. Michael},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling},
  pages = {489-499},
  year = {2024}
}

@inproceedings{gardone2024toward,
  title = {Toward Planning with Hierarchical Decompositions and Time-frames},
  author = {Gardone, Mica and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Hierarchical Planning at the 34th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling},
  pages = {59--63},
  year = {2024}
}

@article{litts2024design,
  title = {The design ethics of culturally sustaining/revitalizing (re)presentation},
  author = {Litts, Breanne K. and Tehee, Melissa and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Alladin, J. Kaleo},
  journal = {International Journal of Designs for Learning: Special Section on Ethics in Learning Design},
  volume = {15},
  number = {3},
  pages = {189-199},
  year = {2024}
}

@article{cardona-rivera2023aligning,
  title = {Aligning Story and Gameplay through Narrative Goals},
  author = {Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Zagal, Jos\'{e} P. and Debus, Michael S.},
  journal = {Entertainment Computing},
  volume = {47},
  number = {100577},
  note = {15 pages},
  year = {2023}
}

@inproceedings{litts2023gathering,
  title = {Gathering as Design Process: Physical Prototyping for Culturally Sustaining Computational Technologies},
  author = {Litts, Breanne K. and Alladin, J. Kaleo and Tehee, Melissa and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Learning, Design and Technology},
  pages = {107--113},
  year = {2023}
}

Braiding Knowledge Project Entry: Gathering as a Design Process

@inproceedings{robertson2023evolving,
  title = {Evolving Interactive Narrative Worlds},
  author = {Robertson, Justus and Heiden, John and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
  pages = {126--135},
  year = {2023}
}

@inproceedings{sinha2023programming,
  title = {Programming Time: Exploring Time as a Cultural Construct across Novice Computing Platforms},
  author = {Sinha, Ravi and Kyei Mensah, Phyllis and Litts, Breanne K. and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Tehee, Melissa},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences},
  pages = {2015-2016},
  publisher = {International Society of the Learning Sciences},
  series = {ICLS 2023},
  year = {2023}
}

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2022game-system-models,
  title = {Game System Models: Toward Semantic Foundations for Technical Game Analysis, Generation, and Design},
  author = {Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Zagal, Jos\'{e} P. and Debus, Michael S.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
  pages = {10--17},
  year = {2022}
}

Video Presentation

@inproceedings{clemens2022case,
  title = {A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to Plugin Parameter Selection in Vocal Audio Production},
  author = {Clemens, Michael and Blackburn, Nancy N. and Sanghrajka, Rush and Ali, Monthir and Thomas, Shilpa and Gardone, M. and Finney, Hunter and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Case-based Reasoning},
  pages = {350--364},
  year = {2022}
}

@inproceedings{knochelmann2022bronco,
  title = {Bronco: A Universal Authoring Language for Controllable Text Generation},
  author = {Knochelmann, Jonas P. and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling},
  pages = {541--558},
  year = {2022}
}

Github Repository

@inproceedings{ali2020comparing,
  title = {Comparing Gamepad and Naturally-mapped Controller Effects on Perceived Virtual Reality Experiences},
  author = {Ali, Monthir and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th ACM Symposium on Applied Perception},
  year = {2020},
  note = {10 pages}
}

@article{debus2020typology,
  title = {A Typology of Imperative Game Goals},
  author = {Debus, Michael S. and Zagal, Jos\'{e} P. and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  journal = {Game Studies},
  volume = {20},
  number = {3},
  year = {2020}
}

Article

@inproceedings{martens2020vne,
  author = {Martens, Chris and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Cohn, Neil},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems},
  title = {The Visual Narrative Engine: A Computational Model of the Visual Narrative Parallel Architecture},
  note = {16 pages},
  year = {2020}
}

Video Presentation

@phdthesis{cardona-rivera2019model,
  author = {Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  title = {A Model of Interactive Narrative Affordances},
  school = {North Carolina State University},
  address = {Raleigh, NC, USA},
  year = {2019}
}

NC State Libraries: Theses and Dissertations: A Model of Interactive Narrative Affordances

@article{eaton2018blue,
  title = {{Blue Sky Ideas in Artificial Intelligence Education from the EAAI 2017 New and Future AI Educator Program}},
  author = {Eric Eaton and Sven Koenig and Claudia Schulz and Francesco Maurelli and John Lee and Joshua Eckroth and Mark Crowley and Richard G. Freedman and Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera and Tiago Machado and Tom Williams},
  journal = {AI Matters},
  volume = {3},
  number = {4},
  pages = {23--31},
  year = {2018}
}

@inproceedings{christensen2020using,
  title={Using Domain Compilation to Add Belief to Narrative Planners},
  author={Christensen, Matthew and Nelson, Jennifer and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
  pages={38--44},
  year={2020}
}

Video Presentation

Github Repository

@article{cardonaanticipatory,
  title={Anticipatory Thinking: A New Frontier for Automated Planning},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E and EDU, UTAH and Brewer, Gene A and EDU, ASU}
}

@inproceedings{amos-binks2020gep,
  author = {Amos-Binks, Adam and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  title = {Goal Elicitation Planning: Acting to Reveal the Goals of Others},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems},
  note = {16 pages},
  year = {2020}}
}

Video Presentation

@inproceedings{barot2017bardic,
  title={Bardic: Generating multimedia narratives for game logs},
  author={Barot, Camille and Branon, Michael and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio and Eger, Markus and Glatz, Michelle and Green, Nancy and Mattice, James and Potts, Colin and Robertson, Justus and Shukonobe, Makiko and others},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
  volume={13},
  number={2},
  pages={154--161},
  year={2017}
}

@inproceedings{blackburn2021ogres, 
  title = {OGrES Welcome! Toward a Systematic Theory for Serious Game Design}, 
  author = {Blackburn, Nancy N. and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.}, 
  booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play} 
  pages = {242–248},
  year = {2021}, 
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, 
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
}

Paper Presentation

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2015symbolic,
  title={{Symbolic Plan Recognition in Interactive Narrative Environments}},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Young, R. Michael},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies and Social Believability in Games at the 11th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
  pages={16--22},
  year={2015}
}

inproceedings{bisberg2019scope,
  title={SCOPE: Selective Cross-Validation over Parameters for Elo},
  author={Bisberg, Alexander J. and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
  pages={116-122},
  year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2017cognitively,
  title={Cognitively-Grounded Procedural Content Generation.},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the What's Next for AI in Games Workshop at the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year={2017},
  pages={1027--1028}
}

Video Presentation

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2017toward,
  title={Toward Combining Domain Theory and Recipes in Plan Recognition},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Young, R. Michael},
  booktitle={{Proceedings of the Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition Workshop at the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}},
  year={2017},
  pages={796--803}
}

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2016plotshot,
  title={{\textsc{PlotShot}: Generating Discourse-constrained Stories Around Photos}},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Li, Boyang},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
  pages={2--8},
  year={2016}
}

@article{cardona-rivera2016question,
  author = {Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Price, Thomas W. and Winer, David R. and Young, R. Michael},
  journal = {Advances in Cognitive Systems},
  pages = {227--246},
  title = {{Question Answering in the Context of Stories Generated by Computers}},
  volume = {4},
  year = {2016}}

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2019desiderata,
  title={{Desiderata for a Computational Model of Human Online Narrative Sensemaking}},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Young, R. Michael},
  booktitle={the Working Notes of the 2019 AAAI Spring Symposium on Story-enabled Intelligence},
  year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2020gfi,
  title={GFI: A Formal Approach to Narrative Design and Game Research},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Zagal, Jos{\'e} P. and Debus, Michael S.},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling},
  pages={133--148},
  year={2020},
  publisher={Springer}
}

Video Overview

Honorable Mention for Best Paper (Runner-up)

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2022reexamining,
  title={Re-examining the Planning Basis of Goal-driven Autonomy Problems},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Gardone, M. and Peterson, Logan and Hiatt, Laura M. and Roberts, Mark},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Workshop on Integrated Action and Execution at the 32nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling},
  year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2020narrative,
  title={Narrative Goals in Games: A Novel Nexus of Story and Gameplay},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Zagal, Jos{\'e} P. and Debus, Michael S.},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games},
  year={2020},
  note={4 pages}
}

Video Presentation

@inproceedings{castricato2021towards,
  title={Towards a Model-Theoretic View of Narratives},
  author={Castricato, Louis and Biderman, Stella and Thue, David and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding},
  pages={95--104},
  year={2021}
}

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2020foundations,
  title={Foundations of a Computational science of Game Design: Abstractions and Tradeoffs},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
  pages={167--174},
  year={2020}
}

@article{clemenscreativity,
  title={Creativity Support for Novice and Sensory Impaired Users in DAWs Paper type: DC-One Page},
  author={Clemens, Michael}

@inproceedings{dominguez2016mimesis,
  author = {Dom\'inguez, Ignacio X. and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Vance, James K. and Roberts, David L.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  pages = {3438--3449},
  title = {{The Mimesis Effect: The Effect of Roles on Player Choice in Interactive Narrative Role-Playing Games}},
  year = {2016}
}

Awarded Honorable Mention in the Best Papers Category

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2858036.2858141

@inproceedings{fendt2012achieving,
author = {Fendt, Matthew W. and Harrison, Brent and Ware, Stephen G. and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Roberts, David L.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling},
title = {{Achieving the Illusion of Agency}},
year = {2012}
}

Awarded Best Paper

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-34851-8_11

@inproceedings{zagal2019ultimate,
  title={On the Ultimate Goals of Games: Winning, Finishing, and Prolonging},
  author={Zagal, Jos{\'e} P. and Debus, Michael S. and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Philosophy of Computer Games Conference},
  volume={11},
  note={11 pages},
  year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{winer2018depth,
  title = {{A Depth-Balanced Approach to Decompositional Planning for Problems where Hierarchical Depth is Requested}},  
  author = {Winer, David R. and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Hierarchical Planning at the 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling},
  year = {2018},
  pages = {1--8}
}

@inproceedings{robertson2020dynamic,
  title = {Invisible Dynamic Mechanic Adjustment in Virtual Reality Games},
  author = {Robertson, Justus and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Young, R. Michael},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality: Special Session on AI for VR/AR Gaming \& Simulations},
  pages = {282-289},
  year = {2020}
}

Video Overview

@inproceedings{martens2016generating,
  title = {Generating Abstract Comics},
  author = {Martens, Chris and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling},
  pages = {168--175},
  year = {2016}
}

http://go.ncsu.edu/comicgen (Comic generator tool)

@techreport{bahamon2011toward,
author = {Baham\'{o}n, Julio C. and Cassell, Bradley A. and Young, R. Michael and Thomas, James M. and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Hinks, David},
institution = {North Carolina State University, Digital Games Research Center},
number = {DGRC-2011-02},
title = {Toward Collaborative, Web-Based 3D Environments for the Investigation, Analysis, Annotation and Display of Virtual Crime Scenes},
type = {Technical Report},
year = {2011}
}

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2011narrative,
author = {Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games -- Doctoral Consortium Track},
pages = {250--252},
title = {{Narrative Affordance: Towards a model of the foreseeability and perceivability of story elements in an Interactive Narrative}},
year = {2011}
}


@inproceedings{young2011approaching,
author = {Young, R. Michael and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies at the 7th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
pages = {123--130},
series = {{INT}},
title = {{Approaching a Player Model of Game Story Comprehension Through Affordance in Interactive Narrative}},
year = {2011}
}

https://aaai.org/papers/00123-12466-approaching-a-player-model-of-game-story-comprehension-through-affordance-in-interactive-narrative/

@incollection{baikadi2012narreme,
author = {Baikadi, Alok and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
booktitle = {\emph{the} Working Notes of the Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative at the 2012 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
editor = {Finlayson, Mark A.},
series = {{CMN}},
pages = {42--44},
title = {{Towards finding the fundamental unit of narrative: A Proposal for the Narreme}},
year = {2012}
}


@incollection{cardona-rivera2012indexter,
author = {Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Cassell, Bradley A. and Ware, Stephen G. and Young, R. Michael},
booktitle = {\emph{the} Working Notes of the Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative at the 2012 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
editor = {Finlayson, Mark A.},
pages = {32--41},
title = {\textsc{Indexter}: A Computational Model of the Event-Indexing Situation Model for Characterizing Narratives},
year = {2012}
}


Awarded Best Student Paper on a Cognitive Science Topic

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2012characterizing,
author = {Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Young, R. Michael},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games},
pages = {204--211},
title = {Characterizing Gameplay in a Player Model of Game Story Comprehension},
series = {{FDG}},
publisher = {{ACM}},
year = {2012}
}

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2012large,
author = {Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Lakkaraju, Kiran and Whetzel, Jonathan and Bernstein, Jeremy},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications},
pages = {40--51},
title = {{Large Scale Conflicts in Massively Multiplayer Online Games}},
year = {2012}
}

@inproceedings{cardona2013cognitivist,
  title={A cognitivist theory of affordances for games},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E and Young, R Michael},
  booktitle={Proceedings of Digital Games Research Conference: DeFragging Game Studies},
  year={2013}
}

@inproceedings{barik2013community,
author = {Barik, Titus and Everett, Michael and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Roberts, David L. and Gehringer, Edward F.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Frontiers in Education Conference},
pages = {1525--1531},
title = {{A Community College Blended Learning Classroom Experience through Artificial Intelligence in Games}},
year = {2013}
}

@techreport{lakkaraju2014validating,
  title={Validating Agent Based Models through Virtual Worlds},
  author={Lakkaraju, Kiran and Whetzel, Jonathan H. and Lee, Jina and Bier, Asmeret and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Bernstein, Jeremy R. R.},
  year={2014},
  institution={Sandia National Laboratories},
  address={Albuquerque, NM 87185 USA and Livermore, CA 94550 USA},
  number={SAND2014-0451}
}

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2014knowledge,
  author = {Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Young, R. Michael},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence -- Student Abstracts Track},
  pages = {3098--3099},
  title = {{A Knowledge Representation that Models Memory in Narrative Comprehension}},
  year = {2014}}

@book{forsythe2014cognitive,
  author = {Forsythe, Chris and Liao, Huafei and Michael Christopher Stefan Trumbo and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.},
  publisher = {CRC Press},
  title = {Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Systems: Work and Everyday Life},
  year = {2014}}

This book is available on Amazon.

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2014games,
  title={{Games as Conversation}},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Young, R. Michael},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Games and NLP at the 10th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
  pages={2--8},
  year={2014}
}

@inproceedings{cardona-rivera2014foreseeing,
  author = {Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and Robertson, Justus and Ware, Stephen G. and Harrison, Brent and Roberts, David L. and Young, R. Michael},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
  pages = {9--15},
  title = {{Foreseeing Meaningful Choices}},
  year = {2014}
}