Chong-U Lim
Building 14N-207, MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
culim (at) mit.edu
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
I recently completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT and CSAIL. My supervisor was Prof. Fox Harrell and I worked at the Imagination, Computation and Expression Lab. For my research, I developed analytical tools and computational approaches to model identities and social experiences of users in both videogames and social media. These approaches make use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and a cross-disciplinary framework of cognitive science and social science research; they automatically identify, reveal, and quantitatively represent patterns of behaviors of users. My research stretches across the following:
- Analytical AI and Machine Learning Tools
- Player Social Identity Modeling
- Novel Design and Content Generation for Games
Selected Research Projects
Tools and approaches for developing player models using their avatars with AI clustering and machine learning.
PuzzleScript-AI
Automated design evaluation and generation using a game description language and evolutionary algorithms.
Steam Player Preference Analyzer
Combining Steam profiles, in-game telemetry data, and virtual items to model status in Team Fortress 2.
More projects
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Proceedings of Refereed Conferences
Proceedings of Refereed Workshop Papers
Juried Exhibitions & Demonstrations
Building 14N-207, MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
culim (at) mit.edu
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Curriculum Vitae
CVNews
Upcoming Events
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 27-Jun 2016 | Co-organizing the 2nd Workshop on Computational Creativity and Games (ICCC) |
Recently Completed Events
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 12-Apr 2016 | Ph. D. Thesis Defense |
| 20-Apr 2016 | Co-presenting at invited talk and co-running workshop at the University of Pittsburgh |
| 22 Jan 2016 | Presentation as a Finalist in the 2016 Singapore Challenge |
| 17-22 Jan 2016 | Nominated participant at the Global Young Scientists Summit @one-north 2016 |
Chong-U Lim,
Antonios Liapis,
D. Fox Harrell
2016
Discovering Social and Aesthetic Categories of Avatars: A Bottom-Up Artificial Intelligence Approach Using Image Clustering,
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of DiGRA and FDG (DiGRA-FDG)
Dundee, Scotland
8
1-6
16 pp
lim2016discovering.pdf
Chong-U Lim,
D. Fox Harrell
2015
Comparing Clustering Approaches for Modeling Players' Values through Avatar Construction
Proceedings of the 1st AIIDE Workshop on Player Modeling (PMWS2015)
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
11
15
7 pp
lim2015comparing.pdf
Chong-U Lim,
D. Fox Harrell
2015
The Marginal: A Game for Modeling Players' Perceptions of Gradient Membership in Avatar Categories.
Proceedings of the 2nd AIIDE Workshop on Experimental AI and Games (EXAG2015)
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
11
15
lim2015marginal.pdf
7 pp
Chong-U Lim,
D. Fox Harrell
2015
A Data-Driven Approach for Computationally Modeling Players' Avatar Customization Behaviors.
Proceedings of the 11th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE2015)
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
11
15
7 pp
lim2015data.pdf
Chong-U Lim,
D. Fox Harrell
2015
Understanding Players' Identities and Behavioral Archetypes from Avatar Customization Data
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG2015)
Tainan, Taiwan
8
31
lim2015understanding.pdf
Chong-U Lim, D. Fox Harrell
2015
Developing Computational Models of Players' Identities and Values from Videogame Avatars
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG2015)
Pacific Grove, CA, USA
Jun-22 - Jun-25
6
22-25
5 pp
lim2015developing.pdf
D. Fox Harrell,
Chong-U Lim,
Jia Zhang,
Sonny Sidhu,
Jason Lipshin,
Ayse Gursoy
2014
Playing Mimesis: Engendering Understanding Via Experience of Social Discrimination with an Interactive Narrative Game.
Electronic Book Review
EBR
11
2
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/mimesis
D. Fox Harrell,
Chong-U Lim,
Jia Zhang,
Dominic Kao
2013
The Living Liberia Fabric: An Interactive Narrative Artwork Memorializing Civil War in Liberia
Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art
Sydney, Australia
6
7-16
Diego Perez,
Spyridon Samothrakis,
Julian Togelius,
Tom Schaul,
Adrien Couetoux,
Jerry Lee,
Chong-U Lim,
Tommy Thompson
2015
The 2014 General Video Game Playing Competition
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (T-CIAIG)
2
10
DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2015.2402393
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7038214&sortType%3Dasc_p_Sequence%26filter%3DAND%28p_Publication_Number%3A4804728%29%26rowsPerPage%3D75
D. Fox Harrell, Dominic Kao, Chong-U Lim
2015
Toward Understanding Real-World Social Impacts of Avatars
"The End(s) of Electronic Literature," Conference of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO2015)
Bergen, Norway
Aug-5 - Aug-7
8
5-7
Chong-U Lim, D. Fox Harrell
2015
Revealing Social Identity Phenomena in Videogames with Archetypal Analysis
Proceedings of the 5th AISB Symposium on AI and Games (AISB2015)
Kent, Canterbury, UK
Apr-20
4
20
6 pp
lim2015revealing.pdf
Chong-U Lim, D. Fox Harrell
2015
Toward Telemetry-driven Analytics for Understanding Players and their Avatars in Videogames
CHI'15 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2015)
Seoul, South Korea
Apr-20 - Apr-23
4
20-23
pp. 1175 - 1180
lim2015toward.pdf
Chong-U Lim, D. Fox Harrell
2014
Developing Social Identity Models of Players from Game Telemetry Data
Proceedings of the 10th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE2014)
Raleigh, NC, USA
Oct-3 - Oct-7
10
3-7
pp. 125 - 131
lim2014developing.pdf
Chong-U Lim, D. Fox Harrell
2014
An Approach to General Videogame Evaluation and Automatic Generation using a Description Language
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG2014)
Dortmund, Germany
Aug-26 - Aug-29
8
26-29
pp. 125 - 131
Lim2014approach.pdf
D. Fox Harrell,
Dominic Kao,
Chong-U Lim,
Jason Lipshin,
Ainsley Sutherland
2014
Stories of Stigma and Acceptance Using the Chimeria Platform
"Hold the Light," Conference of the Electronic literature Organization (ELO2014)
Milwaukee, WI
6
19-21
2 pp
Harrell2014stories.pdf
D. Fox Harrell,
Dominic Kao,
Chong-U Lim,
Jason Lipshin,
Ainsley Sutherland
2014
The Chimeria Platform: User Empowerment through Expressing Social Group Membership Phenomena
The Digital Humanities Conference
Lausanne, Switzerland
7
7-12
7 pp
Harrell2014empowerment.pdf
D. Fox Harrell,
Dominic Kao,
Chong-U Lim,
Jason Lipshin,
Ainsley Sutherland,
Julia Makivic,
Danielle Olson
2014
Authoring Conversational Narratives in Games with the Chimeria Platform.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG2014)
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
4
4-6
8 pp
Harrell2014authoring.pdf
Chong-U Lim,
D. Fox Harrell
2013
Modeling Player Preferences in Avatar Customization using Social Network Data: A Case-Study using Virtual Items in Team Fortress 2
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG2013)
Niagara Falls, Canada
8
11-13
pp. 153 - 160
lim2013modeling.pdf
D. Fox Harrell
Dominic Kao,
Chong-U Lim
2013
Computationally Modeling Narratives of Social Group Membership with the Chimeria System
Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN2013), A satellite workshop of CogSci 2013: The 35th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Berlin, Germany
7
31
pp. 123 - 128
http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2013/4154/pdf/p123-harell.pdf
Chong-U Lim,
Robin Baumgarten,
Simon Colton
2010
Evolving behaviour trees for the commercial game DEFCON
Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Evo*Star 2nd European event on Bio-inspired Algorithms in Games (EvoGames2010),
Istanbul, Turkey
4
7-9
pp. 100 - 110
lim2010evolving.pdf
D. Fox Harrell,
Domininc Kao,
Chong-U Lim,
Jason Lipshin,
Ainsley Sutherland,
Julia Makivic
2014
An Intelligent Narrative System for Modeling Social Identity-Related Experiences
The 7th Intelligent Narrative Technologies Workshop (INT7)
Milwaukee, WI
6
17-18
D. Fox Harrell,
Domininc Kao,
Chong-U Lim,
Jason Lipshin,
Ainsley Sutherland,
Julia Makivic
2014
Exploring Everyday Creative Responses to Social Discrimination with the Mimesis System
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC2013)
Dublin, Ireland
5
30
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/icelab/sites/default/files/pdf/Harrell-ICCC2012-demo-final.pdf
D. Fox Harrell,
Chong-U Lim,
Sonny Sidhu
2012
Exploring Social Discrimination through Interactive Narrative using Mimesis
New Media Consortium Conference (NMC2012)
Cambridge, MA, USA
6
10
D. Fox Harrell,
Chong-U Lim,
Sonny Sidhu,
Christine Yu,
Jia Zhang,
Ayse Gursoy
2012
Mimesis: An Integrated Social Networking Application and Computer Game for
Exploring Social Discrimination,
"Electrifying Literature
Affordances and Constraints," Conference of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO2013)
Morgantown, WV
6
20-23