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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} }
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}
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} }
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}
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}}
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
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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)
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).
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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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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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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http://go.ncsu.edu/comicgen (Comic generator tool)
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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}
}
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}
}
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}
}
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}
}
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
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)
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
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
A Cognitivist Theory of Affordances for Games
In Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Conference: DeFragging Game Studies, 2013
Note: (DiGRA 2013)
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}
}
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
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
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
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
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}}