Call for Interactives

Many aspects of AI and entertainment are fundamentally interactive. Researchers invest a great deal of time in developing frameworks and software that can be useful for others to build upon. We encourage researchers, practitioners, developers, and artists to submit interactive software artifacts (hands-on demonstrations, playable experiences, software frameworks or libraries, and other code contributions) alongside their research paper. For papers in the interactives track, the main contribution is the software, in the form of a framework with an interactive software interface, software library/plugin, standalone interactive system, etc. The research paper should describe the software artifact and demonstrate its significance to the research community. Accepted authors are expected to demonstrate their software at the conference.

Topic Areas

Examples interactives include but are not limited to:

AI frameworks for use in research and/or commercial game development with an interactive interface.
Game implementations that are particularly amenable to AI research.
Research systems being used in the context of commercial games.
Indie games and prototypes showcasing AI in their design or gameplay.
AI tools for composing music or visual art.
Improvisational theater using AI tools or robots.

Submissions to this track need not adhere to a traditional definition of game, but should be centered around human interaction, such as play, training, therapy, etc. All submissions should be made via EasyChair.

Important Dates

All deadlines are 11:59 PM anywhere in the world (UTC-12)

Peer-Reviewed Abstract Deadline: May 19th, 2023
Peer-Reviewed Full Submission (Paper and Artifact) Deadline: May 26th, 2023 May 26th, 2023 (extended!)
Paper Reviews Released: June 25th, 2023
Author Response Period: June 26th, 2023 – July 5th, 2023
Final Notification: July 17th, 2023
Publication-ready (Camera-ready) Deadline: July 30th, 2023

What to Submit: Paper and software artifact

Papers are expected to describe the software, as well its contribution to the research community. Papers submitted to the interactives track are expected to follow the same guidelines as research papers. Additionally, the software artifact must be submitted with the paper for evaluation.

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 a maximum of 9 pages of content, with no limit on the number of pages for references. Authors are encouraged to submit a paper of length proportional to its contribution. Note, reviewers may, but are not required to, read the appendices, and therefore the paper’s central thesis should be understandable without them.

Software Artifact

When submitting their paper, authors will also be required to submit their software artifact, with instructions for how to install and run it. These materials should also be anonymized as much as possible, and submitted as a link. The links themselves do not need to be anonymized as the chairs will download submitted materials and distribute them to the reviewers, but the code should not contain any author information. Please contact the track chairs if this presents an issue to find an alternative solution.

Submissions that are inconsistent with the length or scope of the track, or submissions without a link to a software artifact or instructions for how to install and run the software artifact may be desk rejected at the discretion of the program chairs.

Evaluation Criteria

Submissions (including the paper and the software artifact) will be peer reviewed. Submitted materials will be reviewed as one package, and judged on technical merit, accessibility to developers and researchers, originality, presentation, impact, and significance.

Software artifacts are evaluated against the criteria of:

Merit, originality, and significance of contribution to the AI research community
Accessibility, usability, and interactivity
Documentation to allow easy reproduction by other researchers
Reusability, facilitating further research.

How to Submit

All papers should be submitted via EasyChair.

Abstract Submission Precedes Paper Submission

Paper and software artifact 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 and Software Submissions 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, throughout the paper, and throughout the software source code (if part of submission). For software, we strongly encourage authors to make use of Anonymous Github (https://anonymous.4open.science) to facilitate anonymization.

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-23 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-23, authors may not submit the paper elsewhere during the AIIDE 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-23 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.

The Peer Review Process

After submission, the AIIDE-23 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 and software artifact’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 submission’s status for the conference. The submission will be evaluated as a whole package.

Upon Acceptance of Your Paper and Software Artifact

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-23 conference proceedings.

At the Conference: Presentation and Demonstration

Papers may be accepted for either oral presentation or poster presentation:

A paper accepted for oral presentation will 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-23 Poster Session. These authors will also have 5 minutes to address the conference in order to entice attendees to visit them during the poster session.

Additionally, the software artifact will be demonstrated at AIIDE. Authors will be asked to demonstrate their software either during a dedicated session at the main conference or during the poster session, as appropriate.

After the Conference: Publication

All papers accepted for presentation (i.e. oral presentation and poster presentation) will be published in the AIIDE-23 proceedings by AAAI Press, where they will remain accessible to thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide.

All software artifacts will be published in the AIIDE Artifact Archive, where they will remain accessible to thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide.

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