Melanie Dickinson

@meldckn

Comp Media PhD @ UCSC. Expressive AI. Personalized/generative/interactive narrative. Social simulation. Advocacy. Wood carving. She/they ✨

Santa Cruz, CA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2013.

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    11. pro 2018.

    revisited a favorite paper today: on “computational caricatures”, or computational design research prototypes that deliberately oversimplify the processes they model as a way to make arguments about which bits of those processes are interesting

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  2. 27. sij

    Anyway, heck yea for search technologies and people's mental models of how they work!

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  3. 27. sij

    (It also suggests that you might be able to design how a search engine works to suggest different mental models or ways of thinking about the world? Relevant for making interactive experiences)

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  4. 27. sij

    New search features lead to expanding the kinds of questions you can ask. And being able to ask new kinds questions is powerful and exciting!

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  5. 27. sij

    The talk was also about how the kinds of search techniques (or a particular search's language constructs) a person knows about—and what they know of the information that's being searched—shapes what kinds of questions they think to ask (and what not to ask)

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  6. 27. sij

    So yea, we could take inspiration from query-based intent languages in making our own bespoke intent languages. (Especially if the experience that you're making kinda revolves around asking questions of a big database of simulated storyworld info)

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  7. 27. sij

    (Intent languages are what we've been calling a thing in a program, game, whatever that lets you specify what you want at a high level and then does things to support or just interestingly respond to that. Lots more to say about expressive intent lang.s but I'll leave it there)

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  8. 27. sij

    It got me thinking that search engines with advanced features and special constructs are like little domain-specific intent languages

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  9. 27. sij

    We just had an inspiring talk in our dept seminar about studying how people search, their mental models of how Google works, and advanced searching techniques/attitudes/cognitive tools

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  10. 27. sij

    Thanks for your framework for talking about simulated storyworlds btw. It's been very influential in a lot of people's thinking lately I think (certainly mine). I'm so glad it exists!

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  11. 27. sij

    Search is useful for helping players navigate a big possibility space! And the search interface and results it gives can be interestingly woven into the experience or the fiction

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  12. 27. sij

    And custom search engine features to more effectively search (or sift!) a giant simulation event trace for story fodder! (especially in Why Are We Like This?, but I think there's a custom search bar planned for every big generative/simulation project I'm on right now)

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  13. 27. sij

    Machine understandable prose crafting with slottable, nesting, part-of-speech-tagged phrase blocks! As input to a storyworld simulation! (in Diarytown mostly)

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  14. 22. sij

    Found my old iPod Video that I used for a decade 😮 (back when you just collected and curated yer own mp3 files instead of renting someone else's) So many forgotten song loves 🥰

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  15. 19. sij

    I need help interpreting this

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  16. 19. sij

    (I guess you'd have to be pretty committed for those. I mean you're basically a field ecologist at that point. Employed by CA State Parks but here for the Signs)

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  17. 19. sij

    —There's also theriomancy in general, divination through observation of animal behavior. In case you're more of a wolf, snake, or fuzzy bat person

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  18. 19. sij

    They should make ailuromancer cat cafes—but more like libraries than cafes cuz you go there to ⋆٭✶learn things☾٭⋆ and it's serious business. (They call it 'cat _reading_' after all)

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  19. 19. sij

    Oh gosh, there's apparently a form of divination, ailuromancy, that uses cat movements, jumps, tail swishes, to predict future events! Such a good power. And way of life. Just following cats around, reading too much into everything they do..

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  20. 11. pro 2019.

    Rally at Humanities Courtyard on Tuesday afternoon. It was packed! 🔥

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