Towards the interactive filmic narrative—“Transparency”: An experimental approach

Towards the interactive filmic narrative - "Transparency": An experimental approach

Nowadays, the cinematographic language claims for a specific type of interpretation and understanding. The emergence of the digital image and the innovative immersive reception devices provide new and diverse possibilities of reading and interacting within the filmic narrative. That is to say, cinema is constantly reinvented and explores potential renewals within the new interactive medias. Thi...

Propositional attitudes towards presuppositions. An experimental approach

According to the Common Ground account proposed by Stalnaker (2002, 2009), speakers involved in a verbal interaction have a number of different propositional attitudes towards their presuppositions. In this paper we propose an experimental study aimed at estimating the psychological plausibility of the Stalnakerian model. In particular, the goal of our experiment is to evaluate variations in ac...

Is an Enthnographic Film a Filmic Ethnography?

The MICRobES Project, an Experimental Approach towards "Open Collective Robotics"

We focus here on “Open Collective Robotics”, a research domain interested in studying concepts and techniques which could lead to true collectivities between humans and robots. We also present the MICRobES project, a long-term experiment intended to investigate how to design such collectivities. Therefore, the MICRobES robots have no prior specific functionality, they have to develop individual...

Towards Learning From Stories: An Approach to Interactive Machine Learning

In this work, we introduce a technique that uses stories to train virtual agents to exhibit believable behavior. This technique uses a compact representation of a story to define the space of acceptable behaviors and then uses this space to assign rewards to certain world states. We show the effectiveness of our technique with a case study in a modified gridworld environment called Pharmacy Wor...