{"223211":{"#nid":"223211","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Magerko Receives NSF Grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/magerko\u0022\u003EBrian Magerko\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eassociate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ereceived a National Science Foundation grant in July 2013. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project, funded for three years, will examine how to create intelligent agents and robots that can interact with humans in open-ended, narrative domains. \u0026nbsp;It focuses on how intelligent agents and humans can co-create narrative experiences in open-ended story environments, like playing with cars and blocks on a play mat. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work will focus on how narrative elements can be \u0022conceptually blended\u0022 with other elements during object-based pretend play, such as blending story scripts (e.g. cars going to work blended with Godzilla attacking the city) or blending real and imaginary objects (e.g. using a long, rectangular block as a bridge across a pretend river). \u0026nbsp;It will also explore how to take turns in object-based pretend play, informing the intelligent agent when and how to make socially acceptable moves.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou can learn more about the project at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/adam.cc.gatech.edu\/?page_id=278\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/adam.cc.gatech.edu\/?page_id=278\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Social Agents and Robots for Open-ended Domains"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2013-07-16 15:45:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:34","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"223201":{"id":"223201","type":"image","title":"Brian Magerko","body":null,"created":"1449243535","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:38:55","changed":"1475894894","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:14","alt":"Brian Magerko","file":{"fid":"197350","name":"img_23.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_23_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_23_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":20009,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_23_0.jpg?itok=eOLAuQ-4"}}},"media_ids":["223201"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"69781","name":"intelligent agents"},{"id":"4591","name":"narrative"},{"id":"363","name":"NSF"},{"id":"4241","name":"play"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brian.magerko@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebrian.magerko@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}