Toward the holodeck: integrating graphics, sound, character and story
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Agents' Interaction in Virtual Storytelling
IVA '01 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Managing interaction between users and agents in a multi-agent storytelling environment
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Caring for Agents and Agents that Care: Building Empathic Relations with Synthetic Agents
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Fitting and Compilation of Multiagent Models through Piecewise Linear Functions
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Thespian: using multi-agent fitting to craft interactive drama
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Fight, flight, or negotiate: believable strategies for conversing under crisis
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
THESPIAN: An Architecture for Interactive Pedagogical Drama
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Supporting Learning through Intelligent and Socially Informed Technology
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Thespian: modeling socially normative behavior in a decision-theoretic framework
IVA'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Directorial Control in a Decision-Theoretic Framework for Interactive Narrative
ICIDS '09 Proceedings of the 2nd Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling: Interactive Storytelling
Evaluating directorial control in a character-centric interactive narrative framework
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Exploring narrative interpretation and adaptation for interactive story creation
ICIDS'10 Proceedings of the Third joint conference on Interactive digital storytelling
Introducing interactive story creators to conversation modelling
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
Backstory authoring for affective agents
ICIDS'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Interactive Storytelling
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Interactive drama allows people to participate actively in a dynamically unfolding story, by playing a character or by exerting directorial control. One of the central challenges faced in the design of interactive dramas is how to ensure that the author's goals for the user's narrative experience are achieved in the face of the user's actions in the story. This challenge is especially significant when a variety of users are expected. To address this challenge, we present an extension to Thespian, an authoring and simulating framework for interactive dramas. Each virtual character is controlled by a decision-theoretic goal driven agent. In our previous work on Thespian, we provided a semi-automated authoring approach that allows authors to configure virtual characters' goals through specifying story paths. In this work, we extend Thespian into a more proactive authoring framework to further reduce authoring effort. The approach works by simulating potential users' behaviors, generating corresponding story paths, filtering the generated paths to identify those that seem problematic and prompting the author to verify virtual characters' behaviors in them. The author can correct virtual characters' behaviors by modifying story paths. As new story paths are designed by the author, the system incrementally adjusts virtual characters' configurations to reflect the author's design ideas. Overall, this enables interactive testing and refinement of an interactive drama. The details of this approach will be presented in this paper, followed by preliminary results of applying it in authoring an interactive drama.