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AIIDE-23 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.
Special Theme: Oh, the Humanity!
Special Theme: Oh, the Humanity!
As the central topic of AIIDE is interactive digital entertainment, this strongly suggests a human component. However, even work that is not focused on interfacing directly with a person often has profound effects on humanity as a whole. AIIDE-23 invites authors to submit papers that specifically address how AI techniques affect people, either directly or indirectly.
We expect that work under this theme will reflect deep engagement with people-aware concerns around the design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence and interactive digital entertainment. We particularly welcome discussions on surprising or unforeseen effects of existing AI approaches.
The goal is twofold: On one hand we want to ensure that our developments ultimately lead to positive outcomes for humanity, and on the other hand, by learning from negative experiences, we can aim to avoid them in the future.
Topic Areas
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
Important Dates
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 Deadline: May 26th, 2023 May 29th, 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
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
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
Length
Unlike prior years, 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
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
How to Submit
All papers should be submitted via EasyChair.
Abstract Submission Precedes Paper Submission
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
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
Submission Policies
On Submission to Other Conferences and Journals
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 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
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
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
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
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
Upon Acceptance of Your Paper
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.
Before the Conference: Artifact Evaluation (Optional)
Before the Conference: Artifact Evaluation (Optional)
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit a companion artifact with their paper. Examples of types of artifacts include stand-alone software, web applications, datasets, plug-ins/extensions for existing tools, social media bots, and others. The purposes of the artifact evaluation are:
To promote reproducibility of our research results by reviewing the claims made in the paper and how well they are supported by the corresponding software;
To promote reuse by encouraging authors to release software that is well-documented and easy to use by peers; and
To recognize software artifacts as important scholarly contributions in their own right.
Evaluation Criteria
Evaluation Criteria
Artifact evaluation is an optional round of additional peer review. Artifacts are evaluated against the criteria of:
Consistency with the claims of the paper and the results it presents
Completeness insofar as possible, supporting all evaluated claims of the paper
Documentation to allow easy reproduction by other researchers
Reusability, facilitating further research.
The quality of artifacts will not affect acceptance decisions for papers, but papers with accepted artifacts are eligible for additional recognition at the conference.
At the Conference: Presentation
At the Conference: Presentation
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.
After the Conference: Publication
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.
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