Recap of the Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)

The Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment was held from October 11 to 14, 2011, on the campus of Stanford University near Palo Alto, California. AIIDE is a premier interaction forum for researchers in artificial intelligence and interactive entertainment. The conference, which includes a research and industry track as well as a demonstration program, aims at bringing together both academic and industrial communities for the purpose of idea exchange and networking. For the first time in AIIDE's history, the main program of the conference was preceded by three workshops: Intelligent Narrative Technologies workshop, the workshop on Nonplayer Character AI, and the Artificial Intelligence in the Game Design Process workshop. In total, 24 papers were presented in the three workshops.