Very excited to finally put out my work on #AAC (communication accessibility) devices for #AutisticAdults. Working with masters student Malathy Nagalakshmi during my postdoc at Penn, we did a deep dive into how AAC can be improved from both society & technology/#NLProc perspectives.
Do you do AI research in story generation or interactive fiction playing generation? Do you have a cool narrative system that you want to show off but don't know how to?
Submit to the Wordplay Workshop @ ACL 2024! https://wordplay-workshop.github.io/
Relatedly: If you are a UMBC student or have recently been admitted to UMBC, I will be teaching a special topics course on the subject!
Here's the website from a previous iteration of the course: https://interactive-fiction-class.org/2022/
@rowat_c I know some people who are working on interactions in visualization (e.g., Emily Wall https://emilywall.github.io/), but also narrative can sometimes be emergent. That is, the user is extracting their own story from the interactions---think like talking about how your Sims are doing. For example, this paper by James Ryan et al. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_2
Looking for a tenure-track faculty position in CS? UMBC's CSEE department is hiring!! https://apply.interfolio.com/133579
UMBC is an amazing school that is actually dedicated to an inclusive culture that supports diversity. Plus, we became an R1 last year, so exciting things are happening! #academicmastodon#JobPosting
In a couple weeks (on 10/4 to be exact), I'll be giving a talk at UMD's CLIP colloquium! I'm super excited to visit UMBC's sister school near DC and meet all the great faculty (& future collaborators?!) there. More details to come.
I know I'm a little late to the party, but I wrote a blog post about the recent writers' strike and my opinion about it as someone who researches story generation AI. https://laramartin.net/2023/07/01/writers-strike.html
@RL_Dane
Yeah! I used to be a masters student for Alan Black (voice awb), and I persuaded him to let me record myself. it didn't take much because apparently not too many people want to sit in an airless soundproof both for several hours.
It's been a while (6 years?) since I used Flite on my phone, but I know you can download the voice files separately.
