L’État-providence suédois comme modèle social productif

Comme il Faut: A System for Authoring Playable Social Models

Authoring interactive stories where the player is afforded a wide range of social interactions results in a very large space of possible social and story situations. The amount of effort required to individually author for each of these circumstances can quickly become intractable. The social AI system Comme il Faut (CiF) aims to reduce the burden on the author by providing a playable model of ...

Thailand Loburi Providence-thamkrabok Monastery

The primary objectives of my funded research were two fold in construct and dealt with systems of management on both an industrial and individual level. The first was to examine the environmental and socio-economic burdens of resource management in relation to copper ore extraction in Chile, the world’s largest copper producer. Secondly, I visited a unique detoxification program at the Thamkrab...

Providence, Freedom, and Human Destiny

Authoring Game-based Interactive Narrative using Social Games and Comme il Faut

Comme il Faut is an artificial intelligence system and authoring strategy for creating game-based interactive stories about relationships and social interactions between characters. Using the abstraction of the social game, Comme il Faut creates experiences where specific dramatic interactions between characters arise from play. This paper describes the process of authoring for Comme il Faut. S...

Stroke Risk Stratification in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Comme Ci, Comme Ça, Plus Ça Change….

T here has been a huge increase in academic interest in atrial fibrillation (AF) and particularly its major complication: thromboembolism. This sustained flurry of activity is fueled by the development of better thromboprophylaxis with well-controlled vitamin K antagonist (VKA) anticoagulation rather than antiplatelet therapy or poorly controlled management with VKAs. The emergence of new thera...