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2020 Conference/Inproceedings
Narrative Goals in Games: A Novel Nexus of Story and Gameplay

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Michael S. Debus , Narrative Goals in Games: A Novel Nexus of Story and Gameplay , Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 1-4, Bugibba, Malta, 2020

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@inproceedings{cardona2020narrative,
  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},
  pages={1--4},
  year={2020}
}
2025 Conference/Inproceedings
Towards a Model-Theoretic View of Narratives

Louis Castricato, Stella Biderman, David Thue, and Rogelio Cardona-Rivera, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Narrative Understanding, 95-104, 2025

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@inproceedings{castricato2021towards,
  title={Towards a model-theoretic view of narratives},
  author={Castricato, Louis and Biderman, Stella and Thue, David and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Narrative Understanding},
  pages={95--104},
  year={2021}
2020 Conference/Inproceedings
Foundations of a Computational Science of Game Design: Abstractions and Tradeoffs

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, pp. 167-174, 2020

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inproceedings{cardona2020foundations,
  title={Foundations of a computational science of game design: Abstractions and tradeoffs},
  author={Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
  volume={16},
  number={1},
  pages={167--174},
  year={2020}
}
2019 Article
Creativity Support for Novice and Sensory Impaired Users in DAWs

Michael Clemens, Creativity Support for Novice and Sensory Impaired Users in DAWs , 2019

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@article{clemenscreativity,
  title={Creativity Support for Novice and Sensory Impaired Users in DAWs Paper type: DC-One Page},
  author={Clemens, Michael}
2025 Conference/Inproceedings
The Mimesis Effect: The Effect of Roles on Player Choice in Interactive Narrative Role-Playing Games

Ignacio X. Domínguez, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, James K. Vance, David L. Roberts, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI, 3438-3449, 2025

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@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}}

2012 Conference/Inproceedings
Achieving the Illusion of Agency

Matthew William Fendt, Brent Harrison, Stephen G. Ware, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, and David L. Roberts, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2012: Interactive Storytelling; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 7648), 114-125, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany, 2012

Note: 29% acceptance rate for full paper presentations

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@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}
}

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Awarded Best Paper

2025 Techreport
Validating Agent Models Through Virtual Worlds

Kiran Lakkaraju, Jonathan H. Whetzel, Jina Lee, Asmeret Bier, Rogelio Cardona- Rivera, Jeremy Bernstein, 0451, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 and Livermore, California 94550, Sandia National Laboratories, Carnegie Mellon University, 2025

Note: Official Sandia National Laboratories Technical Report (SAND2014-0451)

2025 Conference/Inproceedings
On the Ultimate Goals of Games: Winning, Finishing, and Prolonging

José P. Zagal, Michael S. Debus, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Proceedings of The 13th International Philosophy of Computer Games Conference, 1-11, 2025

Note: This research has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No [695528] – MSG: Making Sense of Games).

2025 Conference/Inproceedings
A Depth-Balanced Approach to Decompositional Planning for Problems where Hierarchical Depth is Requested

David R. Winer, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Proceedings of the 1st ICAPS Workshop on Hierarchical Planning, ICAPS Workshop, 1-8, Delft, The Netherlands, 2025

Note: Presented at the 1st ICAPS Workshop on Hierarchical Planning, 2018

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2025 Conference/Inproceedings
Invisible Dynamic Mechanic Adjustment in Virtual Reality Games

Justus Robertson, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, R. Michael Young, Proceedings of the Experimental AI in Games (EXAG) Track at the 2020 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE), 2025

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2025 Conference/Inproceedings
Generating Abstract Comics

Chris Martens and Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Springer International Publishing AG 2016, Interactive Storytelling: 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2016), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pp. 168-175, NC Raleigh, USA, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 2025

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2011 Techreport
Toward Collaborative, Web-Based 3D Environments for the Investigation, Analysis, Annotation and Display of Virtual Crime Scenes

Julio César Bahamón, Bradley A. Cassell, R. Michael Young, James M. Thomas, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, and David Hinks, 02, Raleigh, NC, USA, North Carolina State University, Digital Games Research Center, 2011

Note: Technical Report DGRC-2011-02

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@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}
}

2011 Conference/Inproceedings
Narrative Affordance: Towards a model of the foreseeability and perceivability of story elements in an Interactive Narrative

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games – Doctoral Consortium Track, FDG, 250-252, Bordeaux, France, 2011

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@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}
}

2011 Conference/Inproceedings
Approaching a Player Model of Game Story Comprehension Through Affordance in Interactive Narrative

R. Michael Young and Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies at the 7th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (INT 4), 123-130, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2011

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@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},
title = {{Approaching a Player Model of Game Story Comprehension Through Affordance in Interactive Narrative}},
year = {2011}
}

2012 Conference/Inproceedings
Towards Finding the Fundamental Unit of Narrative: A Proposal for the Narreme.

Alok Baikadi and Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Towards Finding the Fundamental Unit of Narrative: A Proposal for the Narreme, In the Working Notes of the 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative at the International Conference of Language Resources and Evaluation (CMN 2012), 44-46, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012

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@inproceedings{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.},
pages = {42--44},
title = {{Towards finding the fundamental unit of narrative: A Proposal for the Narreme}},
year = {2012}
}

2012 Article
Indexter: A Computational Model of the Event-Indexing Situation Model for Characterizing Narratives

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Bradley A. Cassell, Stephen G. Ware, and R. Michael Young, In the Working Notes of the 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative at the International Conference of Language Resources and Evaluation (CMN 2012), 34-43, 2012

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@inproceedings{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}
}

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Awarded Best Student Paper on a Cognitive Science Topic

2012 Conference/Inproceedings
Characterizing Gameplay in a Player Model of Game Story Comprehension.

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera and R. Michael Young, In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2012), 204-211, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2012, 2012

Note: (29% acceptance rate)

2012 Conference/Inproceedings
Large Scale Conflicts in Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Kiran Lakkaraju, Jonathan Whetzel, and Jeremy Bernstein, Large Scale Conflicts in Massively Multiplayer Online Games., In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences, 40-51, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 2012

2013 Conference/Inproceedings
Computational Models of Narrative and their relation to Human Action

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera and R. Michael Young, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2013

Note: Presented at the NC State 2013 Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Research Symposium: Emerging Genres, Forms, Narratives in New Media Environments

2013 Article
A Cognitivist Theory of Affordances for Games

In Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Conference: DeFragging Game Studies, 2013

Note: (DiGRA 2013)

2013 Conference/Inproceedings
A Community College Blended Learning Classroom Experience through Artificial Intelligence in Games

Titus Barik, Michael Everett, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, David L. Roberts, and Edward F. Gehringer, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE, 1525-1531, 2013

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@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}
}

2014 Book
Validating Agent Models Through Virtual Worlds

Kiran Lakkaraju, Jonathan H. Whetzel, Jina Lee, Asmeret Bier, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, and Jeremy Bernstein, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 and Livermore, California 94550., 2014

2014 Article
A Knowledge Representation that Models Memory in Narrative Comprehension

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Justus Robertson, Stephen G. Ware, Brent Harrison, David L. Roberts, and R. Michael Young, In Proceedings of the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence – Student Abstracts Track (AAAI-14), 3098-3099, 2014

2014 Book
Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Systems: Work and Everyday Life

Chris Forsythe, Huafei Liao, Michael Christopher Stefan Trumbo, and Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Systems: Work and Everyday Life, 2014

2014 Conference/Inproceedings
Games as Conversation

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera and R. Michael Young., In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Games and NLP at the 10th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 2-8, 2014

2014 Conference/Inproceedings
Foreseeing Meaningful Choices

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Justus Robertson, Stephen G. Ware, Brent Harrison, David L. Roberts, and R. Michael Young, Proceedings of the 10th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, AIIDE, 9-15, 2014

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@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}}