Phoster

Research and Development

Category: Simulation

Narrative Comprehension and Prediction

  1. Comprehension
  2. Mental Models
  3. Situation Models
  4. Mental Simulation
  5. Social Cognition
  6. Schemata
  7. Causality
  8. Prediction
  9. Surprise
  10. Suspense

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

Cognitive Architectures and Learning

  1. Cognitive Architectures
  2. Simulated Learners
  3. User Modeling

Instructional Design

  1. Introduction
  2. Text
  3. Multimedia
  4. Synchronized Multimedia
  5. Hypermedia
  6. Document Layout
  7. Pictures, Charts, Graphs, Diagrams, Infographics
  8. Photographs
  9. Animation
  10. Video
  11. 3D Graphics
  12. Digital Visual Effects
  13. 3D Video
  14. Augmented and Virtual Realities
  15. Simulation
  16. Interactive Digital Entertainment and Narrative
  17. Lectures
  18. Screenplays
  19. Dialogue
  20. Learning Objects
  21. Generating Multimedia

Design

  1. Mental Imagery, Mental Simulation and Imagination
  2. Drawing
  3. External Representations
  4. Design Spaces
  5. Constraint Systems
  6. Search
  7. Exploration
  8. Creativity
  9. Aesthetics
  10. Style
  11. Evaluation
  12. Intention
  13. Rationale
  14. Communication
  15. Learning
  16. Computer-aided Design
  17. Computer-automated Design