A review of interactive narrative systems and technologies: a training perspective

Abstract

Abstract-As an emerging form of digital entertainment, interactive narrative has attracted great attention of researchers over the past decade. Recently, there is an emerging trend to apply interactive narrative for training and simulation. An interactive narrative system allows players to proactively interact with simulated entities in a virtual world and have the ability to alter the progression of a storyline. In simulation-based training, the use of an interactive narrative system enables the possibility to offer engaging, diverse and personalized narratives or scenarios for different training purposes. This paper provides a review of interactive narrative systems and technologies from a training perspective. Specifically, we first propose a set of key requirements in developing interactive narrative systems for simulation-based training. Then we review nine representative existing systems with respect to their system architectures, features and related mechanisms. To examine their applicability to training, we investigate and compare the reviewed systems based on the functionalities and modules that support the proposed requirements. Furthermore, we discuss some open research issues on future development of interactive narrative technologies for training applications.

Representacções Alternativas e Interativas de Modelos de Processos de Serviços Públicos

“…Como explicado por [Castells 2011], essa interac ¸ão tem como objetivo envolver o consumidor na obra de forma a complementar e enriquecer a narrativa, provendo uma experiência com mais valor, variada, completa e imersiva. Por este motivo, é preciso que ela seja muito bem estruturada, de modo a não apresentar inconsistências, uma vez que possui início, mas pode apresentar vários finais [Luo et al 2015].…”

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Narrative Understanding

“…We acknowledge that more survey papers exist with different areas of focus within the domain of computational narratives, such as Narrative theories (Cavazza and Pizzi, 2006), Interactive Intelligence (Luo et al, 2015), Drama Management (Roberts and Isbell, 2008), Plan-based story generation (Young et al, 2013).…”

Changing the Mind of Transformers for Topically-Controllable Language Generation

“…Other work (Roemmele and Gordon, 2015;Clark et al, 2018) presents users with multiple generated continuations, which requires substantial reading effort and might not contain topics that users want to see. Finally, options could be nodes in a plot graph that are handcrafted (Luo et al, 2015) or derived from a collaboration between humans and machine (Li et al, 2013), but such choices are usually limited due to the high cost of preparing the options.…”