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TACT Project
Carnegie Mellon HCI Institute: The Center for Transformational Play
IEEE Conference on Games (2024) : Research Presentation
Foundations of Digital Games (2023) : Research Presentation
Can AI agents truly cooperate with humans in asymmetric multiplayer game settings? When AI agents are introduced into the system, how will human players' dynamics change? Can AI successfully collaborate with humans to progress and solve given tasks?
In collaboration with CMU's Center for Transformational Play and Georgia Institute of Technology, I worked with Dr. Erik Harpstead and his cross-institute TACT team to research and develop testing environments for integrating various AI agents.
We ultimately presented our research at IEEE CoG (2024), Annual ARL STRONG
Summit (2024) in Colorado, and FDG (2023) in Lisbon, Portugal. Our research has then been transformed into a AI Hackathon, and has been hosted at Georgia Tech in 2024, and recently as a Hackathon for IEEE CoG (2025).
Stacey's role: System designer + Frontend developer
Dice Adventure's title image and overall creative direction was designed by me!
Research Project links, click to view:
TACT Phase 2: Dice Adventure Explanation video
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TACT Phase 2: Dice Adventure research presentation + team documentation
TACT Phase 1: What's Cooking? Testing environments
TACT Phase 1: What's Cooking? Explanation video
TACT Phase 1: FDG 2023 Team documentation - Lisbon, Portugal
Reflections:
Working on the TACT team with Dr. Erik Harpstead taught me so much about cooperative
AI agent research especially in relation to multiplayer human dynamics and game design. Working with our collaborative partners from Georgia Tech, I gained hands on experience on how to work in cross-interdisciplinary, institutional research settings.
I am especially grateful for our wonderful TACT teammates as apart from research and development, we built deep interpersonal connections due to constant collaboration and travels. I still remain in close touch with them today, and immensely thank Dr. Erik Harpstead for providing such valuable opportunities.
Connect with me: staceycho@mde.harvard.edu
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