Ben Samuel

According to our database, Ben Samuel authored at least 33 papers between 2010 and 2025.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
• Erdős number of four.

2025

An Interactive Game-based Multi-Agent AI System for Children's Social and Emotional Development.

Shreya Banerjee, Soheil Saneei, Lisa Pham, Elliott Alexander Beaton, Henry Fordjour Ansah, Ben Samuel, Jenny Spicer, Huda Hammad, Amanda Stage

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025

Slice of Life: A Social Physics Game with Interactive Conversations using Symbolically Grounded LLM-Based Generative Dialogue.

Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Mark J. Nelson

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2025

2024

Prototyping Slice of Life: Social Physics with Symbolically Grounded LLM-based Generative Dialogue.

Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Mark J. Nelson

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2024

2023

Moirai: Enabling Complex Narrative Structure in Simulation-Driven Stories.

Ben Samuel, Adam Summerville

Proceedings of the Experimental Artificial Intelligence in Games Workshop co-located with the 19th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2023), 2023

2021

A Quantified Analysis of Bad News for Story Sifting Interfaces.

Ben Samuel, Adam Summerville, James Owen Ryan, Liz England

Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2021

Pedagogical Challenges in Social Physics Authoring.

Daniel DeKerlegand, Ben Samuel, Mike Treanor

Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2021

Casual Creator Cursed Problems or: How I Learned to Start Worrying And Love Designers.

Adam Summerville, Ben Samuel, James Owen Ryan, Liz England

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the AIIDE 2021 Workshops co-located with 17th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2021)(AAAI 2021), 2021

Design Considerations for Creating AI-based Gameplay.

Ben Samuel, Mike Treanor, Joshua McCoy

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the AIIDE 2021 Workshops co-located with 17th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2021)(AAAI 2021), 2021

2020

Encoding Socio-Historical Exegesis as Social Physics Predicates.

Daniel DeKerlegand, Ben Samuel, Jeffrey Leichman

Proceedings of the FDG '20: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2020

2019

StoryAssembler: an engine for generating dynamic choice-driven narratives.

Jacob Garbe, Max Kreminski, Ben Samuel, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2019

Evaluating AI-Based Games through Retellings.

Max Kreminski, Ben Samuel, Edward F. Melcer, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the Fifteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2019

2018

Gemini: Bidirectional Generation and Analysis of Games via ASP.

Adam Summerville, Chris Martens, Ben Samuel, Joseph C. Osborn, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas

Proceedings of the Fourteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2018

Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2018.

Ben Samuel, Aaron A. Reed, Emily Short, Samantha Heck, Barrie D. Robison, Landon Wright, Terence Soule, Mike Treanor, Joshua McCoy, Anne Sullivan, Alireza Shirvani, Edward T. Garcia, Rachelyn Farrell, Stephen G. Ware, Katherine Compton

Proceedings of the Fourteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2018

2017

Towards General RPG Playing.

Joseph C. Osborn, Ben Samuel, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas

Proceedings of the Workshops of the Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2017

2016

Bad News: An Experiment in Computationally Assisted Performance.

Ben Samuel, James Owen Ryan, Adam J. Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2016

The Design of Writing Buddy: A Mixed-Initiative Approach Towards Computational Story Collaboration.

Ben Samuel, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2016

Bad News: A Game of Death and Communication.

James Owen Ryan, Adam J. Summerville, Ben Samuel

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2016.

Alexander E. Zook, Michael Cook, Eric Butler, Kristin Siu, Matthew Guzdial, Mark O. Riedl, James Owen Ryan, Ben Samuel, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the Twelfth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2016

2015

The Scored Rule Engine: Next-Generation Social Physics.

Ben Samuel, Aaron A. Reed, Paul Maddaloni, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2015

Playspecs: Regular Expressions for Game Play Traces.

Joseph Carter Osborn, Ben Samuel, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the Eleventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2015

2014

Social Story Worlds With Comme il Faut.

Joshua McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Aaron A. Reed, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games, 2014

Introducing story sampling: Preliminary results of a new interactive narrative evaluation technique.

Ben Samuel, Josh McCoy, Mike Treanor, Aaron A. Reed, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2014

Evaluating Play Trace (Dis)similarity Metrics.

Joseph Carter Osborn, Ben Samuel, Joshua Allen McCoy, Michael Mateas

Proceedings of the Tenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2014

2013

Prom Week: Designing past the game/story dilemma.

Joshua McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Aaron A. Reed, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2013

Creating Playable Social Experiences through Whole-Body Interaction with Virtual Characters.

Daniel G. Shapiro, Joshua McCoy, April Grow, Ben Samuel, Andrew Stern, Reid Swanson, Mike Treanor, Michael Mateas

Proceedings of the Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2013

Prom Week.

Joshua McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Aaron A. Reed, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2013

2012

<i>Prom week</i>.

Joshua McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Aaron A. Reed, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas

Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2012

2011

SpyFeet: an exercise RPG.

Aaron A. Reed, Ben Samuel, Anne Sullivan, Ricky Grant, April Grow, Justin Lazaro, Jennifer Mahal, Sri Kurniawan, Marilyn A. Walker, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the Foundations of Digital Games, 2011

<i>Prom Week</i>: social physics as gameplay.

Joshua McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the Foundations of Digital Games, 2011

A Step Towards the Future of Role-Playing Games: The SpyFeet Mobile RPG Project.

Aaron A. Reed, Ben Samuel, Anne Sullivan, Ricky Grant, April Grow, Justin Lazaro, Jennifer Mahal, Sri Kurniawan, Marilyn A. Walker, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2011

Comme il Faut: A System for Authoring Playable Social Models.

Joshua McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas

Proceedings of the Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2011

2010

<i>Comme il Faut 2</i>: a fully realized model for socially-oriented gameplay.

Josh McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Brandon Robert Tearse, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies III Workshop, 2010

The Prom: An Example of Socially-Oriented Gameplay.

Joshua McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Brandon Robert Tearse, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2010