A computational model of the cognitive impact of decorative elements on the perception of suspense

Delatorre, Pablo; León, Carlos; Gervás, Pablo; Palomo-Duarte, Manuel

doi:10.1080/09540091.2017.1345856

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“…Although these results are consistent with the emotional responses to suspense also observed in Delatorre et al (2017), none of these previously mentioned studies includes a narrative background for the terms, which would be required for a quantitative analysis of the impact of narrative contexts in story generation. Therefore, a corpus that rates affective responses to concepts in a context of suspense 2 does not exist.…”

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“…However and although the model of Delatorre et al (2017) revealed significant correlations in line with the mentioned concept of suspense, some other aspects seemed to challenge the validity of the experimental ratings prediction of the current affective dimensions.…”

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“…Also, in a study for the detection and automatic generation of suspense framed in the development of an automatic story generator, Delatorre et al (2017) used the ANEW dataset to determine which concepts were the best candidates to evoke suspense according to preferences of the audience. The experiment consisted of asking a number of subjects to rate the suspense provoked by a short text where different words representing decorative elements were included.…”

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The emotional response to a stimulus is typically measured in three variables called valence, arousal and dominance. Based on such dimensions, Bradley and Lang ( 1999 ) published the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW), a corpus of affective ratings for 1,034 non-contextualized words. Expanded and adapted to many languages, ANEW provides a corpus to evaluate and to predict human responses to different stimuli, and it has been used in a number of studies involving analysis of emotions. However, ANEW seems not to appropriately predict affective responses to concepts when these are contextualized in certain situational backgrounds, in which words can have different connotations from those in non-contextualized scenarios. These contextualized affective norms have not been sufficiently contrasted yet because the literature does not provide a corpus of the ANEW list in specific contexts. On this basis, this paper reports on the creation of a new corpus of affective norms for the original 1,034 ANEW words in a particular context (a fictional scene of suspense). An extensive quantitative data analysis comparing both corpora was carried out, confirming that the affective ratings are highly influenced by the context. The corpus can be downloaded as Supplementary Material .

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“…Examples of relevant features to establish this value have been shown to be: for characters, empathy and relative strength of individuals in conflict, or for objects, their functional nature that might affect the outcome --as in weapons or possible exits. The values were empirically obtained from experiments where human participants were asked to rate variations of a given story controlled for contrasting instantiations of the features [31]. Based on a computed overall value for suspense at each point arising from the various concepts present, the system then reassembles the scene --replacing concepts with differently valued alternatives --in order to achieve the desired level of suspense.…”

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The long path to narrative generation

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Narrative generation, understood as the task of constructing computational models of the way in which humans build stories, has been shown to involve a number of separate processes, related to different purposes to which it can be applied, and focusing on specific features that make stories valuable. The present paper reviews a set of story generation systems developed at the NIL research group, each focusing on different aspects and functions of stories. These systems provide an initial breakdown of how the term storytelling might be either instantiated or broken down into component processes. The systems cover functionalities such as: generating valid plot structures, simulating character's behaviours or the evolution of affinities between them, either reporting or fictionalising events observed in real life, and revising a story draft to maximise the suspense it induces in its readers. These functionalities are not intended to exhaust the set of possible operations involved in storytelling, but they constitute an initial set to understand the complexity of the task. The paper also includes two proposals-one theoretical and one technological-for understanding how a set of such functionalities might be composed into a broader operational process that produces more elaborate stories.

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“…For example, in Delatorre et al ( 2017 ) we propose the architecture of a system whose main objective is the adaptation of the descriptive elements of a suspenseful scene, in such a way that the amount of information of the scene output is adjusted to the required suspense intensity. The system manages the structural components of the scene based on a weighted corpus consisting of a set of concepts, each one associated with a quantitative value that represents its level of suspense.…”

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Confronting a Paradox: A New Perspective of the Impact of Uncertainty in Suspense

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Suspense is a key narrative issue in terms of emotional gratifications. Reactions in response to this type of entertainment are positively related to enjoyment, having a significant impact on the audience's immersion and suspension of disbelief. Related to computational modeling of this feature, some automatic storytelling systems include limited implementations of suspense management system in their core. In this way, the interest of this subject in the area of creativity has resorted to different definitions from fields as narratology and the film industry, as much as several proposals of its constituent features. Among their characteristics, uncertainty is one of the most discussed in terms of impact and need: while many authors affirm that uncertainty is essential to evoke suspense, others limit or reject its influence. Furthermore, the paradox of suspense reflects the problem of including uncertainty as a component required in suspense creation systems. Due to this need to contrast the effects of the uncertainty in order to compute a general model for automatic storytelling systems, we conducted an experiment measuring suspense experienced by a group of subjects that read a story. While a group of them were told the ending of the story in advance, the members of the other group experimented the same story in chronological order. Both the subjects' reported suspense and their physiological responses are gathered and analyzed. Results provide evidence to conclude that uncertainty affects the emotional response of readers, but independently and in a different form than suspense does. It will help to propose a model in which uncertainty is processed separately as management of the amount of knowledge about the outcome available to the spectator, which acts as a control signal to modulate the input features, but not directly in suspense computing.

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A computational model of the cognitive impact of decorative elements on the perception of suspense

Cited by 12 publications

References 59 publications

The Impact of Context on Affective Norms: A Case of Study With Suspense

The Impact of Context on Affective Norms: A Case of Study With Suspense

The long path to narrative generation

Confronting a Paradox: A New Perspective of the Impact of Uncertainty in Suspense

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