A Computational Model of an Intelligent Narrator for Interactive Narratives

Szilas, Nicolas

doi:10.1080/08839510701526574

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“…There exists no consensus on how the algorithms of these systems should be classified: plot-based vs character-based, planning vs modular [10], coarse grain vs fine grain [24]. However it is usually admitted that the more generative the algorithm, the more potential for user influence on the story, but the more difficult it is to create an interesting narrative.…”

Section: Interactive Drama Systems As State-based Enginesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is a hard challenge, because it involves both the dynamic generation of narrative events and the integration of user inputs within the generation. In interactive dramas such as Façade [11,12], The Mutiny (written with IDtension) [24] or The Balance of Power (written with Storytron) [22], the user can not only wander in space, use objects and choose among pre-written sentences, as in commercial adventure games, but is also given the possibility of interacting with other characters in the story. The user can, for example, encourage other characters to perform actions, help them, accept or refuse aid, condemn their actions, inform others about past or possible actions, etc.…”

Section: Interactive Drama Systems As State-based Enginesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Façade is an interesting case, in which generativity stopped at the level of sentences; these are not generated in order to preserve their expressive quality. More generative systems, such as DEFACTO [19], Storytron [22], IDtension [24], EmoEmma [5], Mimesis [28] or Gadin [2] require a more abstract representation of characters' actions, which tend to diminish the expressivity of utterances.…”

Section: Interactive Drama Systems As State-based Enginesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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To Be or Not to Be: Towards Stateless Interactive Drama

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2009

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2009

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“…It is highly dependent on applications. In our current research, reasoning is performed by a central narrative engine [12], but other applications could use AI-based agent architectures.…”

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“…This program communicates with the two other modules via sockets. The upper module is either a narrative engine previously developed by the author [12][13] or a "tester", a simple Java program allowing the user to manually enter commands to be sent to the behaviour engine. Figure 6 represents the architecture, with the narrative engine.…”

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BEcool: Towards an Author Friendly Behaviour Engine

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Virtual agents, to be expressive, not only need algorithms for displaying the subtleties of human behaviour, but also require environments and tools so that people can author them. Because powerful algorithms are sometimes difficult to author, a compromise has to be found between algorithmic sophistication and authorability. Our approach for providing expressive characters at the behavioural level is based on such a compromise. This paper provides a model for describing behaviours which is author focused, while enabling some interesting algorithmic features such as parallelism and inter-agent coordination. The model has been implemented and simulation results are displayed.

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Elaboration of Tools to Facilitate the Scenario Development of Crisis Management Training

Frealle¹,

Tena-Chollet²,

Sauvagnargues³

2018

Decision‐making in Crisis Situations

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Elaboration of Tools to Facilitate the Scenario Development of Crisis Management Training IntroductionA crisis may have important consequences, whether at the human, material or economic level. While regulation is an important lever for organizations to be prepared to confront major events through the implementation of plans and procedures, feedback is also stimulating to implement crisis management exercises. Among the different types of crisis exercises, simulations enable crisis units to test their organization and to gain experience (Goutx 2014). In order to implement simulation, it is necessary to develop a scenario that is credible (Boin et al. 2004;Dautun et al. 2011), educational (Baubion et al. 2014a) and interactive at the same time (Barot et al. 2013;Barot 2014), so as to encourage trainees to immerse themselves in a situation that seems realistic and allows them to acquire knowledge, skills and experience. This scenario is implemented by a team of facilitators, also known as a facilitation team (Fréalle et al. 2017). Facilitators are then led to share scripted messages with trainees and Chapter written by Noémie FRÉALLE, Florian TENA-CHOLLET and Sophie SAUVAGNARGUES.

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A Computational Model of an Intelligent Narrator for Interactive Narratives

Cited by 53 publications

References 24 publications

To Be or Not to Be: Towards Stateless Interactive Drama

To Be or Not to Be: Towards Stateless Interactive Drama

BEcool: Towards an Author Friendly Behaviour Engine

Elaboration of Tools to Facilitate the Scenario Development of Crisis Management Training

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