Balancing Narrative Control and Autonomy for Virtual Characters in a Game Scenario

Löckelt, Markus; Pecourt, Elsa; Pfleger, Norbert

doi:10.1007/11590323_29

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“…The highly interactive scenarios realized in the two prototypes (see INTROARTICLE) raises the question of autonomy vs. guidance. There is a widespread discussion (see, e.g., [2,3]) of the advantages and disadvantages of a strong guidance through a narration structure, which guarantees a coherent story experience, and the autonomous approach where each virtual character is allowed to act and react on its own behalf.…”

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Multi-party Conversation for Mixed Reality

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Pfleger²,

Reithinger³

2007

IJVR

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The interactive scenarios realized in the two prototypes of Virtual Human require an approach that allows humans and virtual characters to interact naturally and flexibly. In this article we present how the autonomous control of the virtual characters and the interpretation of user interactions is realized in the Conversational Dialogue Engine (CDE) framework. For each virtual and real interlocutor one CDE is responsible for dialogue processing. We will introduce the knowledge needed for the CDE-approach and present the modules of a CDE. The real-time requirement resulted in the integrated processing of deliberative and reactive processing, which is needed, e.g., to generate an appropriate nonverbal behavior of virtual characters.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%