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<font face="Palatino">Monday, March 11, 4:30 p.m., in the ASH
Auditorium<br>
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Noor Shaker, Ph.D.<br>
Candidate for Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Game
Design<br>
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Talk Title: "Capturing, Modeling, and Personalizing Player
Experience in Platform Games"<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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