Samuel Shields

According to our database, Samuel Shields authored at least 10 papers between 2022 and 2025.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
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2025

Clicking some of the silly options: Exploring Player Motivation in Static and Dynamic Educational Interactive Narratives.

Daeun Hwang, Samuel Shields, Alex Calderwood, Shi Johnson-Bey, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Edward F. Melcer

CoRR, May, 2025

Searching Playtrace Data to Identify and Evaluate Dramatic Arcs in Game Systems.

Samuel Shields, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Edward F. Melcer

Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2025

Playtrace Arc Search: A Tool to Explore and Evaluate Large Spaces of Playtrace Metrics Through User-Defined Curves.

Samuel Shields, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Edward F. Melcer

Proceedings of the Joint AIIDE Workshops on Experimental AI in Games and Intelligent Narrative Technologies (EXAG-INT 2025) co-located with the 21st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2025), 2025

2024

Building Visual Novels with Social Simulation and Storylets.

Shi Johnson-Bey, Kira Liao, Samuel Shields, Daeun Hwang, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, Edward F. Melcer

Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2024

Towards Qualia-Driven Design.

Samuel Shields, Michael Mateas, Edward F. Melcer

Proceedings of the 2024 DiGRA International Conference: Playgrounds, 2024

Generating Together: Lessons Learned from Developing an Educational Visual Novel with AI Collaboration.

Samuel Shields, Alex Calderwood, Shi Johnson-Bey, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, Edward F. Melcer

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2024

Academical: A Dynamic Interactive Narrative Game for Responsible Conduct of Research Training.

Shi Johnson-Bey, Samuel Shields, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Edward F. Melcer

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2024

Soothing Systems: A Meditative Somaesthetic Experience.

Samuel Shields, Edward F. Melcer

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

2023

ENTRUST: Co-design and Validation of a Serious Game for Assessing Clinical Decision-Making and Readiness for Entrustment.

Edward F. Melcer, Cara A. Liebert, Samuel Shields, Oleksandra G. Keehl, Jason Tsai, Fatyma Camacho, Hyrum Eddington, Amber Trickey, Melissa Lee, Sylvia Bereknyei Merrell, James R. Korndorffer, Dana T. Lin

Proceedings of the Software Engineering for Games in Serious Contexts, 2023

2022

Searching for Balanced 2D Brawler Games: Successes and Failures of Automated Evaluation.

Samuel Shields, Ross Mawhorter, Edward F. Melcer, Michael Mateas

Proceedings of the Eighteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2022