POEM Lab Research Interest Form

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Email *

What is your name? *

What are your pronouns? (e.g. she/her, they/them, he/him)

What is your affiliation status with Northeastern University? *

Current enrolled student

Enrolled (incoming) student

Prospective student (admitted)

Prospective student (applied/planning to apply)

None of the above (unaffiliated)

Other:

If you're a student somewhere other than Northeastern, where? *

What is your current degree program or student status (at Northeastern or elsewhere)? *

Enrolled in Bachelors program

Enrolled in Masters program

Enrolled in Ph.D. program

Currently not enrolled as a student

Other:

If you're currently a student (at Northeastern or elsewhere), what is your expected graduation date? (Write N/A if not a student) *

What is your current employment status? Include job title and company name if you are employed. *

In which term or semester are you interested in starting research? *

During the term/semester you would start research, what other commitments do you have that would impact your weekday availability during working hours? E.g. list how many classes you plan to take and whether you have another job. *

Are you interested in doing research for credit or for a paid stipend? *

Course credit (e.g. Independent Study)

Paid stipend

No preference

Other:

Which of the following research topics are you interested in? *

Tools and processes for game design and development

Interactive storytelling, narrative modeling, or story generation

World-building and collaborative storytelling

Procedural content generation

Social simulation / conversational agents / believable virtual characters

Puzzle games and player cognition

Critical technical practice or other humanist understandings of creative technology

Logic programming

Programming language design

Mechanized and interactive theorem proving/proof construction

Explorable Explanations / simulation for systems understanding

Formal behavior models (e.g. behavior trees, finite state automata, reactive planners, rule-based engines)

Required

Briefly describe how you became interested in the above topics and your motivation for pursuing research on them. *

Briefly describe any coursework, work experience, or project experience you have that is relevant to the topics you checked above. Links to websites, portfolios, blog posts, or code repositories are welcome. *

Which of the following skills would you feel confident using *independently* to contribute to a research project? *

Developing software

Developing games

Changing existing software, running tests and performance benchmarks, etc.

Performing statistical data analysis

Performing qualitative data analysis (e.g. thematic coding)

Conducting user studies and interviews

Technical documentation

Reading academic papers

Writing academic papers

Mentoring junior students

Fiction/narrative writing

Digital art and visual design

Analog game design (paper prototyping and playtesting)

Understanding and writing about game design theory (e.g. Mechanics/Dynamics/Aesthetics; emergence vs. progression)

Other:

Required

Which of the following skills are you interested in receiving mentorship for or "apprenticing" in to achieve confident independence with? *

Developing software

Developing games

Changing existing software, running tests and performance benchmarks, etc.

Performing statistical data analysis

Performing qualitative data analysis (e.g. thematic coding)

Conducting user studies and interviews

Technical documentation

Reading academic papers

Writing academic papers

Mentoring junior students

Fiction/narrative writing

Digital art and visual design

Analog game design (paper prototyping and playtesting)

Understanding and writing about game design theory (e.g. Mechanics/Dynamics/Aesthetics; emergence vs. progression)

Other:

Required

Please indicate if you would rate yourself as having at least "some familiarity" with any of the following programming languages, tools, or skills.

Web development with HTML5/CSS/JavaScript

TypeScript

Python (2 or 3)

Prolog, Answer Set Programming, or another logic programming language

Haskell, OCaml, Standard ML, Elm, or another typed functional language

Twine (interactive fiction authoring tool)

Inform 7 (interactive fiction authoring tool)

Ink (Inkle's narrative scripting language)

Unity 3D

PuzzleScript

Are you a member of any group that has been historically excluded from computing or discriminated against in general, either in the US or your country of origin (e.g. due to gender, race, ability, orientation)? If so, you can just write "yes" (you may add more details if you wish). If not, please give a brief (1 paragraph) statement on your understanding of how to be an advocate and accomplice to those groups. *

What does being a good member of a community (e.g. research lab) mean to you? *

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