Phoster

Research and Development

Category: Creativity

The Cognitive Science of Interpretive Expertise

  1. Literary Expertise
  2. Artistic Expertise

Natural Language Generation and Revision

  1. Writing and Revision
  2. Natural Language Generation and Revision
  3. Natural language Generation and Evaluation
  4. Multi-criteria Search and Planning
  5. Time-dependent Planning
  6. Anytime Algorithms

Artificial Mental Simulation

  1. Cognitive Architectures
  2. Computer Simulation
  3. Mental Models
  4. Situation Models
  5. Mental Simulation
  6. Attention
  7. Intention
  8. Awareness
  9. Perspective
  10. Interpretation
  11. Abstraction
  12. Categories
  13. Coherence
  14. Causality
  15. Deduction
  16. Qualitative Spatiotemporal Reasoning
  17. Dynamic Modeling
  18. Transcription and Summarization
  19. Inference and Elaboration
  20. Explanation

Mixed-initiative Dialogue Systems, Narration, Mental Imagery, Mental Simulation and Imagination

  1. Narration
  2. Artistic Expression
  3. Aesthetics
  4. Stylistics
  5. Intertextuality, Allusion, Appropriation and Recontextualization
  6. Semiotics
  7. Interpretation
  8. Characterization
  9. Motivation
  10. Affect
  11. Personality
  12. Morality
  13. Psychology and Sociology of Entertainment
  14. Audience Modeling
  15. Comprehension
  16. Mental Models
  17. Story Logic
  18. Narrative Coherence
  19. Story Visualization
  20. Story Transcription and Summarization
  21. Computer-aided Storytelling
  22. Computer-automated Storytelling

Mixed-initiative Dialogue Systems, Explanation, Mechanistic Reasoning, Mental Simulation and Imagination

  1. Explanation
  2. Education
  3. Generating Explanations
  4. Understanding Explanations
  5. Questions and Answers
  6. Diagrams
  7. Conceptual Models
  8. Mechanistic Reasoning
  9. Identity
  10. Mereology
  11. Teleology
  12. Spatial Reasoning
  13. Events
  14. Signals
  15. Causation
  16. Prediction
  17. Parallelism
  18. Temporal Reasoning
  19. Complex Adaptive Systems
  20. Abstraction
  21. Idealization
  22. Ontology
  23. Mathematics
  24. Science
  25. Engineering
  26. Computer-aided Engineering and Simulation

Mixed-initiative Dialogue Systems, Description, Mental Imagery, Mental Simulation and Imagination

  1. Description
  2. Attention
  3. Perception
  4. Mental Simulation
  5. Imagination
  6. Objects
  7. Attributes
  8. Nouns
  9. Adjectives
  10. Events
  11. Verbs
  12. Adverbs
  13. Spatial Descriptions and Visuospatial Reasoning
  14. Adpositional Phrases
  15. Scenes
  16. Referring Expressions
  17. Language
  18. Sketch
  19. Gesture
  20. Pragmatics
  21. Computer-aided Design

Interactive Narrative and Interpretation

  1. Narrative and Interpretation
  2. Cognitive Narratology
  3. Narrative and Theatre
  4. Emergent Narrative
  5. Interactive Narrative as Communication
  6. Abductive Reasoning and Interpretation
  7. Symbolism, Semiotics and Perceptual Symbols
  8. Event Perception and Memory
  9. Mental Models and Narrative
  10. Shared Mental Models and Improvisational Theatre
  11. Possible Worlds
  12. Figurative Language, Metaphor, Tropes, Motifs and Interpretation
  13. Allegory and Allegoresis
  14. Intention and Interpretation
  15. Validity of Interpretations
  16. Significance, Texture and Aesthetics
  17. Modeling Readers and Players

Literal and Figurative Language and Verbal and Visual Analogies, Metaphors and Blends

  1. Interpreting and Understanding Literal and Figurative Language
  2. Analogy, Metaphor and Blending
  3. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Analogy, Metaphor and Blending
  4. Visual Analogy, Metaphor and Blending
  5. Context and the Comprehension of Analogies, Metaphors and Blends
  6. Computational Models of Understanding Analogies, Metaphors and Blends
  7. Generating Descriptive and Explanatory Analogies, Metaphors and Blending

Education and the Cognitive Science of Playwriting and Screenwriting

  1. Education, Playwriting and Screenwriting
  2. Models of Narrative and Screenplays
  3. Motion Pictures and Generating Educational Screenplays

Education and the Cognitive Science of Writing

  1. Teaching Writing and Narrative
  2. The Psychology of Writing
  3. The Development of Writing, Creative and Group Creative Processes