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Computational creativity, content generation, game HCI.

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GAIG Publications

2024

2023

2022

2021

• IEEE TOG 2021 Danesh: Interactive Tools For Understanding Procedural Content Generators
  Cook, Michael and Gow, Jeremy and Smith, Gillian and Colton, Simon, in IEEE Transactions on Games, 2021.
  pubs-2021  ieee-tog  procedural-generation  computational-creativity  generative-software-analysis
  
  
• 2021 Expressivity of Parameterized and Data-driven Representations in Quality Diversity Search
  Hagg, Alexander and Berns, Sebastian and Asteroth, Alexander and Colton, Simon and Back, Thomas, in arxiv:2105.04247, 2021.
  pubs-2021  arxiv  computational-creativity  quality-diversity  optimisation
  
  

2020

• ICCC 2020 Bridging Generative Deep Learning and Computational Creativity
  Berns, Sebastian and Colton, Simon, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’20), 2020.
  pubs-2020  iccc  computational-creativity  deep-learning
  
  
• ICCC 2020 Creativity Theatre for Demonstrable Computational Creativity
  Colton, Simon and McCormack, Jon and Cook, Michael and Berns, Sebastian, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’20), pp. 288-291, 2020.
  pubs-2020  iccc  computational-creativity
  
  
• ICCC 2020 On the Machine Condition and its Creative Expression
  Colton, Simon and Pease, Alison and Guckelsberger, Christian and McCormack, Jon and Llano, Maria Teresa and others, in ICCC, pp. 342-349, 2020.
  pubs-2020  iccc  computational-creativity
  
  
• ICCC 2020 Explainable Computational Creativity
  Llano, Maria Teresa and d'Inverno, Mark and Yee-King, Matthew and McCormack, Jon and Ilsar, Alon and Pease, Alison and Colton, Simon, in 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity, pp. 334-341, 2020.
  pubs-2020  iccc  computational-creativity
  
  
• ICCC 2020 Casual Creators in the Wild: A Typology of Commercial Generative Creativity Support Tools
  Petrovskaya, Elena and Deterding, Christoph Sebastian and Colton, Simon, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’20), 2020.
  pubs-2020  iccc  computational-creativity  tools  casual-creators
  
  
• Evo* 2020 Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual Creation
  Colton, Simon and McCormack, Jon and Cook, Michael and Berns, Sebastian, in International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (Part of EvoStar), pp. 17-34, 2020.
  pubs-2020  evo-star  computational-creativity  art  casual-creators
  
  
• Evo* 2020 Evolving Neural Style Transfer Blends
  Colton, Simon, in 10th International Conference, EvoMUSART (part of EvoStar), 12693, pp. 65, 2020.
  pubs-2020  evostar  computational-creativity  art  evolutionary-algorithms  style-transfer
  
  
• Evo* 2020 Controlling Self-organization in Generative Creative Systems
  Young, Jonathan and Colton, Simon, in International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (Part of EvoStar), pp. 194-209, 2020.
  pubs-2020  evostar  computational-creativity
  
  

2019

• IEEE COG 2019 General Analytical Techniques For Parameter-Based Procedural Content Generators
  Cook, Michael and Colton, Simon and Gow, Jeremy and Smith, Gillian, in IEEE Conference on Games (COG), pp. 1-8, 2019.
  pubs-2019  ieee-cog  procedural-content-generation  generative-systems-analysis  co-creativity
  
  
• IEEE COG 2019 Towards Liveness in Game Development
  Martin, Andrew R and Colton, Simon, in IEEE Conference on Games (COG), pp. 1-4, 2019.
  pubs-2019  ieee-cog  game-development
  
  
• ICCC 2019 The HR3 System for Automated Code Generation in Creative Settings
  Colton, Simon and Pease, Alison and Cook, Michael and Chen, Chunyang, in Proceedings of the 10th ICCC, 2019.
  pubs-2019  iccc  computational-creativity
  
  
• ICCC 2019 Framing In Computational Creativity-A Survey And Taxonomy
  Cook, Michael and Colton, Simon and Pease, Alison and Llano, Maria Teresa, in Proceedings of the 10th ICCC, pp. 156-163, 2019.
  pubs-2019  iccc  computational-creativity
  
  
• ICCC 2019 The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains
  Pease, Alison and Colton, Simon and Warburton, Chris and Nathanail, Athanasios and Preda, Irina and Arnold, Daniel and Winterstein, Daniel and Cook, Mike, in 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, pp. 250-257, 2019.
  pubs-2019  iccc  computational-creativity
  
  
• Evo* 2019 Camera Obscurer: Generative Art for Design Inspiration
  Singh, Dilpreet and Rajcic, Nina and Colton, Simon and McCormack, Jon, in International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (Part of EvoStar), pp. 51-68, 2019.
  pubs-2019  arxiv  evo-star  computational-creativity  game-design  art
  
  

2018

• 2018 Game Search Space Design and Representation
  Dan Ashlock and Cameron Browne and Simon Colton and Amy Hoover and Jialin Liu and Simon Lucas and Mark nelson and Diego Perez-Liebana and Senastian Risi and Jacob Schrum and Adam Smith and Julian Togelius and Vanessa Volz, in Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: AI-Driven Game Design (Dagstuhl Seminar 17471), 7, pp. 86-129, 2018.
  pubs-2018  dagstuhl  search-space  game-design  representation
  
  
• 2018 A General Language for Matching Tile Games
  Julian Togelius and Cameron Browne and Simon Colton and Mark J. Nelson and Diego Perez Liebana, in Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: AI-Driven Game Design (Dagstuhl Seminar 17471), 7, pp. 86-129, 2018.
  pubs-2018  dagstuhl  tile-matching  game-description-language
  
  
• 2018 Gameplay Evaluation Measures
  Vanessa Volz and Dan Ashlock and Simon Colton and Steve Dahlskog and Jialin Liu and Simon M. Lucas and Diego Perez Liebana and Tommy Thompson, in Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: AI-Driven Game Design (Dagstuhl Seminar 17471), 7, pp. 86-129, 2018.
  pubs-2018  dagstuhl  evaluation  gvgai
  
  

2017