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Tan Chek Tien
Teaching Assistant / PhD Candidate
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
Computing 1 (COM1), #02-46,
Singapore 117590
DID: +65 65164746
Fax: +65 67794580
chektien (at) nus (dot) edu (dot) sg
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What am I currently up to?

Research

Till End 2008 TAPIR: TAPS with Input Reduction for Inter-Agent Adaptation in Modern Games
Basically an improvement to our TAP adaptation model to enable large-scale adaptation.
Till End 2008 A POMDP model for Play-Style Adaptation
A tennis game on this is in the works... (connects to the Wiimote as well, to enable future "real" tennis strokes input)

Presentations

22nd Oct 2008, 9-12 TAP: An Effective Personality Representation for Inter-Agent Adaptation in Games
In The Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (2008).
Venue: Stanford University, San Francisco, CA.
13th Nov 2008, 9-12 Computing is Fun - Creating Your First Game
Part of Science Camp organised by NUS for Junior College students.
Venue: AS6, NUS, Singapore.

Teaching

Till End November 2008 CS3240 Human-Computer Interaction
Lab Assignment 1 Review (Includes links to the best 3 Ants Game my students made)


Some History...

Publications

Chek Tien Tan and Ho-lun Cheng (2007). Personality-based Adaptation for Teamwork in Game Agents. In Proceedings of The Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (2007), AAAI Press, 37. Stanford University, San Francisco, CA.

Chek Tien Tan and Ho-lun Cheng (2008). A Combined Tactical and Strategic Hierarchical Learning Framework in Multi-agent Games. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox Symposium on Videogames (2008). Los Angeles, CA.

Chek Tien Tan and Ho-lun Cheng (2008). TAP: An Effective Personality Representation for Inter-Agent Adaptation in Games In Proceedings of The Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (2008), AAAI Press. Stanford University, San Francisco, CA.

Professional Appointments

CGAMES 2008 Reviewer Committee

Teaching

CS3241 Computer Graphics
IT1801 Programming in Business
CS2305S Problem Solving in Computing
GEK1511 Introduction to Computing
CS3240 Human-Computer Interaction (current)

Detailed CV can be requested via email on the top right of the page.

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