McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University

Ian Horswill

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA

S.M. Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA

B.CSci., University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota

Research Interests

Control systems for autonomous agents; modeling and simulation of emotion, personality, and social behavior for virtual characters for games and interactive narrative

Selected Publications

• Horswill, I.; Lisetti, C., “Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2011-Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the BICA Society”, , (2011)
• Horswill, I., “Toward a Rapid Prototyping Environment for Character Behavior”, Seventh Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, (2011)
• Horswill, I., “Automaticity and Expressive Behavior in Virtual Actors: Notes on the Organization of Mammalian Behavior Systems”, Workshops at the Seventh Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, (2011)
• Horswill, I. D, “A Rapid Prototyping Environment for Character Behavior”, 2011 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, (2011)
• I Horswill, K Fua, A Ortony, “Conflict and Hesitancy in Virtual Actors”, Biologically informed cognitive ..., (2009)
• K Fua, I Horswill, A Ortony, W Revelle, “Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory and Cognitive Architectures”, Biologically informed cognitive ..., (2009)
• I Horswill, “Twig: A Simple, AI-friendly, Character World for Believable Agents”, Biologically informed cognitive ..., (2009)
• ID Horswill, “Lightweight Procedural Animation with Believable Physical Interactions”, Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, ..., (2009)