Seminar on Human-like Artificial Agents (Winter 2019/20)

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Dates (SIS)

Mondays, 17:20, S6

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Seminar Terms

• You must attend the seminar regularly
  • If you’re late (more than 5 minutes) and you have not excused one day prior to the seminar, you will have to buy 1l of juice / handful of candies for the rest of us as compensation 😉
• You must give at least one presentation on a chosen topic
  • Typically your bachelor/master thesis
• You must act as an opponent for one presentation
• You must choose, read critically, present and comment on possible shortcomings on one research paper
  • Concentrate not only on the idea but critically assess how well the paper is written, how well is the paper contribution described, what it claims and how the paper proves/backs the claims (or does not), what data it reports and in what form (and whether the data are reported clearly, how well they back the claims, etc.), if there is a soft discussion in the paper summarize and feedback on that as well
  • Choose your paper (preferably) from the following sources:
• If the need arises, you will have to participate in some experiment (e.g., evaluating software or project of your colleague)

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Papers to choose from

Paper	Link	Presenter
Vintch, B., Movshon, J. A., & Simoncelli, E. P. (2015). A convolutional subunit model for neuronal responses in macaque V1. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(44), 14829-14841.	LINK
Nguyen, H., Harpstead, E., Wang, Y., & McLaren, B. M. (2018, June). Student agency and game-based learning: A study comparing low and high agency. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 338-351). Springer, Cham.	LINK
Echeverría, Alejandro, et al. “The atomic intrinsic integration approach: A structured methodology for the design of games for the conceptual understanding of physics.” Computers & Education 59.2 (2012): 806-816.	LINK (accessible from MFF UK subnet)
Kanner, Joseph H., and Alvin J. Rosenstein. “Television in army training: Color vs black and white.” Audiovisual communication review 8.5 (1960): 243-252.	LINK on request
Nielsen, J., & Phillips, V. L. (1993, May). Estimating the relative usability of two interfaces: heuristic, formal, and empirical methods compared. In Proceedings of the INTERACT’93 and CHI’93 conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 214-221). ACM.	LINK (accessible from MFF UK subnet)
Iten, G. H., Steinemann, S. T., & Opwis, K. (2018, April). Choosing to help monsters: A mixed-method examination of meaningful choices in narrative-rich games and interactive narratives. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. 341). ACM.	LINK
Leder, J., Horlitz, T., Puschmann, P., Wittstock, V., & Schütz, A. (2019). Comparing immersive virtual reality and powerpoint as methods for delivering safety training: impacts on risk perception, learning, and decision making. Safety science, 111, 271-286.	LINK
Conference on Games 2019 Proceedings	choose one
Computational Intelligence in Games Proceedings	choose one

Structure of the Paper Presentation

1. Summarize what the paper talks about, what is its take-home-message (10-15 minutes)
2. Critically feedback the writing of the paper (5-10 minutes), e.g.:
   1. They claimed something at the beginning, that they did not deliver;
   2. the hypothesis was clear but the experiment is not designed so it may bring fruitful data;
   3. the data reported, when you try to interpret them, is not supporting the discussion within the paper;
   4. is the experiment replicable?
   5. Etc…

 

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Seminar Schedule

Date	Note	Presenter	Type	Presentation	Opponent
7.10.2019	Seminar welcome session
14.10.2019	Off-building Seminar in Roesel
21.10.2019	Paper selection
28.10.2019	National holiday
4.11.2019	Scientific reading – Round 1	Julius Flimmel	scientific reading	Presentation Paper: Level Design Patterns in 2D Games	Ondřej Nepožitek
		Roman Borufka	scientific reading	Presentation Paper: Personality and Behavior in Role-based Online Games	Ondřej Lakomý
11.11.2019	Scientific reading – Round 2	Ondřej Nepožitek	scientific reading	Presentation Paper: Empowering Quality Diversity in Dungeon Design Inspired by MAP-Elites algorithm	Adrián Kormoš
		Ondřej Čakloš	scientific reading	Presentation Paper: Evolution of Kiting Behavior	N/A
		Ondřej Lakomý	scientific reading	Presentation Paper: Conflict Based Search	Vojtěch Černý
18.11.2019	Not organised
25.11.2019	Scientific reading – Round 3	Vojtěch Černý	scientific reading	Presentation Generating Endless Runners	Julius Flimmel
		Adrián Kormoš	scientific reading	Presentation Paper: Solving Strong and Weak 4-in-a-Row	Roman Borufka
2.12.2019	Presentations – Round 1	Ondřej Nepožitek	MSc. thesis in progress	Presentation Procedural 2D Map Generation
		Ondřej Čakloš	MSc. thesis in progress	Presentation RTS with AI Behavior Scripting
9.12.2019	Presentations – Round 2	Roman Borufka	MSc. thesis in progress	Presentation Performance Testing Suite for Unity DOTS
		Ondřej Lakomý	MSc. thesis in progress	Presentation Railway network planning for OpenTTD
16.12.2019	Presentations – Round 3	Julius Flimmel	MSc. thesis in progress	Presentation Super Mario AI & Level Coevolution
		Adrián Kormoš	Bc. thesis in progress	Presentation Tower Defense Kit for Unity
	Follow-up: Christmas Meeting possibly in Roesel
23.12.2019	Christmas holidays!
30.12.2019	Christmas holidays!
6.1.2020	Presentations – Round 4	Vojtěch Černý	PCG course in progress