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    "pk": 27731,
    "title": "Cognitive and Experimental Interstingness in Abstract Visual Narrative",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Interactive intelligent agents use cognitive models to antic-\nipate and simulate human behavior, and a fundamental pil-\nlar of human cognition and interaction is narrative. As a\nresult, agents need to understand human comprehension of\nvarious types of narratives. A key component of modeling\ncomprehension is the perception of interestingness of con-\nstituent actions and events in the narrative. In this paper, we\nbriefly review previous theories of interestingness, drawn from\ncognitive psychology and narratology. We propose expanded\ncomputationally amenable theory of interest which takes into\naccount both cognitive and experiential aspects of perceived\ninterest. To empirically validate the theory, we present a\nnarrative generator for abstract animations inspired by Heider\nand Simmel’s experiments (Heider & Simmel, 1944). The\ngenerated animations are parameterized along the dimensions\nof our proposed theory. We present the results of a user study\nwith this generative system and report on the effects of visual\nnarrative parameters on perceived interest.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Story interest"
        },
        {
            "word": "Cognitive interest"
        },
        {
            "word": "Visual Narrative"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1wd1c6mh",
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        {
            "first_name": "Morteza",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Behrooz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Santa Cruz",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Afshin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Mobramaein",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Santa Cruz",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Arnav",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Jhala",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "North Carolina State University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jim",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Whitehead",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Santa Cruz",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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