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I am a professor in Computer Science and Media Production who makes digital media and writes about the process. I also make experiments with code for interactive media and write about my methods and results. Please download and cite articles and book chapters as you like.

COMPUTER SCIENCE & INTERACTIVE MEDIA PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters in Computer Science and Interactive Media

Essays published as book chapters

Multi-Disciplinary Paths to Actor-Centric

Non-Player Character  Emotion Models

Sheldon Schiffer (2020) 


In Bridging the Gap Between AI, Cognitive Science and Narratology with Narrative Generation, Takashi Ogata and Jumpei Ono (Eds.), IGI Global.

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Published Proceedings in Computer Science and Interactive Media

Essays presented at conferences and selected for publication of the conference proceedings

Measuring Emotion Velocity for Resemblance

In Neural Network Facial Animation Controllers and Their Emotion Corpora, 

Sheldon Schiffer (2023)


15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence,  

ICAART 2023 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

Proceedings published on SciTePress. 

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Measuring Emotion Intensity

Evaluating Resemblance in Neural Network Facial Animation Controllers and Facial Emotion Corpora, 

Sheldon Schiffer (2023)


18th International Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications,  VISIGRAPP/HUCAPP 2023 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

Proceedings published on SciTePress 

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Facial Emotion Expression Corpora

For Training Game Character Neural Network Models, 

Sheldon Schiffer, Samantha Zhang and Max Levine (2022) 


17th International Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP/HUCAPP Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

Proceedings published on SciTePress 

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Game Character Facial Animation

Using Actor Video Corpus and Recurrent Neural Networks, 

Sheldon Schiffer  (2021) 


2021 20th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)

Proceedings published on IEEE Xplore

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How Actors Can Animate Game Characters

Integrating Performance Theory in the Emotion Model of a Game Character (2021) Sheldon Schiffer


15th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, AIIDE 2019, Atlanta, Georgia 

Proceedings published on ACM Digital Library 

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The Rise and Fall of Black Velvet Flag:

 An 'Intelligent' System for Youth Culture Documentary", 


1999 AAAI Fall Symposium

Proceedings published in Papers from the 1999 AAAI Fall Symposium, AAAI Press 

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Dissertation

Submitted in partial fulfillment for the PhD in Computer Science at Georgia State University

An Actor-Centric Approach to Facial Animation

Control by Neural Network  For Non-Player Characters in Video Games,

Sheldon Schiffer (2023) Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Proceedings published on ScholarWorks@GSU

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FILM & MEDIA STUDIES PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles in Film and Media Studies

Essays published as journal articles

Footsteps, Breath and Recording Devices:

Abandoning A Camera-Centric Construction of “Point-of-Audition", 

in Soundtrack: Journal of Sound Design, vol.5, no. 1, Jun 2012

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Book Chapters in Film and Media Studies

Essays published as book chapters

Aleatory Acoustics, Mechanics and Aesthetics:

Game Sound Design with Audio Controllers and Their Interfaces, in Foundations in Sound Design for Interactive Media, Michael Filimowicz (Ed.), 2018, Routledge. 

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The Cover Song as Historiography:

Marker Of Ideological Transformation, 

in Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music, 2010, Ashgate Press. 

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Preparing to Perform the Other:

Developing Roles 'Different' than Oneself" 

in Filming Difference, 2008, University of Texas Press.

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The Rise and Fall of Black Velvet Flag:

 An 'Intelligent' System for Youth Culture Documentary, 

in Narrative Intelligence. Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers (eds.),  Advances in Consciousness Series.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, c. 2002. Revised and extended from published proceedings of 1999

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