Marc Cavazza is a Professor at Teesside University (United Kingdom) and is recognised as one of the leading researchers in Interactive Storytelling. His group at Teesside has been active in the field for over 10 years, and its members are also teaching computer games development in one of the largest dedicated courses in Europe. The group has been involved in many research projects, some in partnership with computer games companies, and has developed no less than five different Interactive Storytelling prototypes since 2002.
He has published over 200 papers, including some of the most cited papers in Interactive Storytelling, and has been regularly invited to give presentations and introductory lectures on the topic. He has been a programme committee member for 80 conferences in the field of Virtual Agents, Interactive Storytelling and Entertainment Computing. He also chairs the IFIP Working Group 14.1 on Digital Storytelling, which is under IFIP TC14 on Entertainment Computing.
In 2010, He is serving as co-Chair for the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces and the ACM Multimedia Conferences, and is one of the keynote speakers at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games. He is the project co-ordinator of the FP7 European Network of Excellence IRIS on Interactive Storytelling and, since 2009, the acting co-ordinator of the FP6 Companions Project, which is one of the largest research projects on conversational characters.