[CS] TODAY! Noor Shaker Job Talk, Monday, March 11, Candidate for Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Game Design, 4:30 p.m. in ASH Auditorium

[Paula Harmon]

Monday, March 11, 4:30 p.m., in the ASH Auditorium

Noor Shaker, Ph.D.
Candidate for Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Game Design

Talk Title: "Capturing, Modeling, and Personalizing Player Experience in 
Platform Games"

Abstract:  How can we measure player experience? What features should be 
used to capture player experience and how can they be extracted? How can 
we model the unknown function between game content, player behavior and 
affect? How can we generate game content that is tailored to particular 
player needs and style? This talk explores ways for capturing and 
modeling notions of player experience and presents a player-driven 
procedural content generation framework for creating personalized game 
content that optimizes specific aspects of the gameplay experience for a 
specific playing style.

Biographical Statement: Noor Shaker is a Post-doctoral researcher at the 
IT University of Copenhagen. She did her Ph.D. at IT University of 
Copenhagen. She has a M.Sc. degree in Artificial Intelligence from 
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a B.A. in IT Engineering from 
Damascus University. Her research interests include player modeling, 
procedural content generation, computational creativity, affective 
computing and player behavior imitation. She received the Best Student 
Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and 
Games 2011. Noor is the chair of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Player 
Modeling. She is also the main organizer of the Mario AI Championship 
that focuses on hot topics on AI in games.

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