Call for Papers
AIIDE 2024 welcomes submissions that touch the vast field of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. We are particularly interested in novel contributions and applications, as well as developments in established problems in the field.
Important Dates
All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE (anywhere on earth) time (UTC-12).
Peer-Reviewed Abstract Deadline: June 26, 2024
Peer-Reviewed Full Submission Deadline: July 3, 2024
Paper Reviews Released: August 2, 2024
Author Response Period: August 3 - August 9, 2024
Final Notification: August 23, 2024
Publication-ready (Camera-ready) Deadline: September 6, 2024
What to Submit
Papers describe AI research results that establish new entertainment AI challenges, make advances on existing problems, enable new forms of interactive digital entertainment, and/or use AI to improve the game design and development process. Papers are held to the highest standards of academic rigor. In general:
Results should be validated in a prototype or test-bed system (e.g., game, robot, generative algorithm), but need not be tested in a commercial environment.
The contribution of the paper should be clearly articulated, usually in the introduction.
The title and claims made in the paper should match the evaluation carried out and the results obtained. Overly broad titles are discouraged.
The paper should demonstrate knowledge of related systems and other approaches to solving similar problems, usually in a Related Work section.
Format
Papers should be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style. The AAAI Press Author Kit provides instructions for writing papers using both LaTeX and Microsoft Word.
Length
Authors are allotted 9 pages of content, with no limit on the number of pages for references. Thus, authors are encouraged to submit a paper of length proportional to its contribution. The length of typical submissions is expected to be approximately 6-7 pages of primary content (including figures and tables but excluding references), with 1-2 pages of appendix content. Note, reviewers may, but are not required to, read the appendices, and therefore the paper’s central thesis should be understandable without them.
Submissions longer than 9 pages will be considered for desk rejection. Papers whose lengths are incommensurate with their contributions will be rejected.
Evaluation Criteria
Submissions will be peer reviewed. Abstracts and other submitted materials will be judged on technical merit, accessibility to developers and researchers, originality, presentation, impact, and significance. Submissions do not need to score well in all of these categories.
How to Submit
All submission should be made via EasyChair in the Main Papers Track.
Abstract Submission Precedes Paper Submission
Paper submissions must be preceded by an abstract submission. The abstract must be submitted in advance of the Abstract Deadline to the Paper track on EasyChair. This helps ensure that appropriate reviewers are assigned to each paper.
Paper Submission must be Anonymized for Double-masked Review
Papers must be anonymized for Double-masked Review; authors are not aware of the identity of their reviewers, and reviewers are not aware of the identity of the authors for the papers they review. Authors must take care to remove names, institutional affiliations, and contact information from the front page and throughout the paper.
Authors should not remove their names from citations, but when citing their own work, authors should refer to themselves in third person. For example, instead of saying “In our previous work (Smith et al. 2020) we showed…” the authors should write “Previously, Smith et al. (2020) showed…” First person voice and phrases that explicitly identify the authors may be added back to the camera ready paper after acceptance.
Submission Policies
On Submission to Other Conferences and Journals
AIIDE 2024 will not consider papers that are under review for or have already been accepted for publication in a journal or other conference. Once submitted to AIIDE 2024, authors may not submit the paper elsewhere during AIIDE’s review period. These restrictions apply only to refereed journals and conferences, not to unrefereed forums (e.g. arXiv.org) or workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Authors must confirm that their submissions conform to these requirements at the time of submission.
On Availability for Peer Review
AIIDE 2024 is committed to an equitable distribution of paper reviewing in our community. Authors of papers submitted to the conference may be called upon to assist with reviewing of other papers, and are expected to participate in reviewing if asked to do so. Authors must confirm that they understand and agree to this policy at the time of submission. If an author is unable to serve as reviewer, they must provide an explanation of the special circumstances that prevent them from participating during the review period.
On Use of AI Systems in Producing Publications (e.g. generative AI and LLMs):
From the AAAI website:
"It is AAAI’s policy that any AI system, including Generative Models such as Chat-GPT, BARD, and DALL-E, does not satisfy the criteria for authorship of papers published by AAAI and, as such, also cannot be used as a citable source in papers published by AAAI. This includes papers submitted for publication in the AAAI Conference Proceedings, the proceedings of all other AAAI co-organized and cooperating conferences and workshops, and AI Magazine. Attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, which cannot be effectively applied to AI systems. Further, the use of any AI system in the development of an AAAI-affiliated publication is only allowed if its role is properly documented in the manuscript. Ultimately, all authors are responsible for the entire content of their papers, including text, figures, references, and appendices."
On Use of AI Systems in Reviews:
From the AAAI website:
"We would like to remind AAAI reviewers that all conference submissions have to be kept confidential. Because of this, submitted papers cannot be uploaded into any system that does not ensure that they are not shared with others. This includes also prompting Large Language Models with papers or parts of them, because these systems may disclose part of the prompt to other users. We would also like to remind reviewers that they are fully responsible for the entire content of their reviews, so tools can be used to improve the wording of the review but not to generate its content."
On Human Subjects Participants in Research:
Research involving human subjects should follow relevant ethical standards (such as IRB approval) and include this information in the submission.
The Peer Review Process
After submission, the AIIDE 2024 organizing committee will assign no fewer than three reviewers to the submission, alongside a meta-reviewer who will shepherd the paper through the review process.
Initial Review and Response
After initial reviews are received, authors will be allowed a short response to correct any misunderstandings in the reviews. This response will be shown to reviewers, the meta-reviewer and Program Chair.
Deliberation and Discussion
The meta-reviewer will shepherd the paper’s discussion among the reviewers, in the context of the original reviews and subsequent author response. The meta-reviewers will then meet with the program chair in order to make a final decision on the paper’s status for the conference.
Upon Acceptance of Your Paper
Before the Conference: Publication-ready version
Contact authors of accepted papers will receive instructions on how to prepare and submit a final version by the Publication-ready deadline for inclusion in the conference proceedings. This deadline is final and set in advance by AAAI. If authors are unable to meet this deadline, the paper will be removed from the AIIDE 2024 conference proceedings.
At the Conference: Presentation
Papers may be accepted for either oral presentation or poster presentation:
A paper accepted for oral presentation are expected to be allocated 20 minutes to address attendees at the conference. Authors will have 15 minutes to present and 5 minutes for questions. Authors are asked to focus on the main findings of their paper to maximize the benefits of the presentation to conference attendees.
A paper accepted for poster presentation will be asked to prepare a research vignette that incorporates media (e.g. visuals, text) to efficiently communicate concepts, data, and findings to conference attendees during the AIIDE 2024 Poster Session. These authors are expected to also have 5 minutes to address the conference in order to entice attendees to visit them during the poster session.
After the Conference: Publication
All papers accepted for presentation (i.e. oral presentation and poster presentation) will be published in the AIIDE 2024 proceedings by AAAI Press, where they will remain accessible to thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide.
Topic Areas
This is a non-comprehensive list of topics of interest to AIIDE:
AI in Games for Entertainment
AI for Education and Educational Games
Serious Games/Games for Change
Intelligent Training and Intelligent Tutoring Systems
AI-Enabled Authoring Tools
AI for Design and Production
Mixed Initiative Tools
Procedural Content Generation
Believable Virtual Agents
AI for Interactive Narratives/Experience Management
Computational Models of Narrative
AI for Level Design
Player Modeling and Analytics
Procedural Animation and Expressive Motion
Intelligent Cinematography
Computational Creativity
AI in Artistic Performance
Evaluation Methodologies and User Studies
Culturally-Situated Entertainment AI
Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Games
Multi-Agent Systems in Games
Natural Language Processing in Games
Robots in Entertainment
Interactive Installations
Crowd-Sourcing and Citizen Science
AI in Virtual and Mixed Realities
Ethics of AI and Entertainment
Heuristic Search and Planning
Pathfinding and Path Planning