{"652457":{"#nid":"652457","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Defense by Zhiyu Lin","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZhiyu Lin\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPhD Student in Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing, College of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommittee\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Mark Riedl (Advisor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Alan Ritter (School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Gil Weinburg (School of Music, Georgia Institute of Technology)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Matthew Guzdial (Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Wei Xu (School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbstract\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecent advancements in controlling generative systems allowed more fine-grained control allowing automation of more parts of game development and creative content creation, several problems arise preventing human creators from fully utilizing these techniques, including challenges in high-level intent-based control, lack of intuitiveness, difficulty in personalization, AI-centric interfaces for human creators, and ultimately not aiming at enhancing the creativity of human designers in a collaborative manner.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo solve these problems, I purpose Human-Aware Artificial Intelligence Procedural Content Generation (HAAI-PCG), a mixed-initiative co-creativity system with human awareness, to overcome these problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI posit that such a system will empower high-level intent-based customization of contents and use the capability of high-level control to enable natural personalized collaborative interaction between a human designer and AI, to better inspire human designers to create content satisfied to both humans and AI than current PCG systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI have previously discovered how a PCG-Machine-Learning (PCGML) system can utilize high-level intents and how an AI agent take advice from human to learn faster and perform better;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI propose to study how a combination of these techniques will fuel a co-creativity system that builds the interactions between human designers and AI agents, by investigating (1) preferred interactions between participants of the system, (2) quality of co-created contents from this system, and (3) how the system will be perceived by human designers, the user of this system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe investigation will open the door to the key understanding of major features in a human-aware co-creativity system, how human designers can benefit from it, and ultimately, the potential of co-creative systems in this new generation of AI and ML.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Human-Aware Artificial Intelligence Procedural Content Generation"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2021-11-04 15:42:19","changed_gmt":"2021-11-04 15:42:19","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-11-23T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2021-11-23T19:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-11-23T19:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-11-23 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-11-24 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-11-24 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"100811","name":"Phd Defense"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}