Interactive Storytelling with Literary Feelings

  • Authors:

  • David Pizzi;Fred Charles;Jean-Luc Lugrin;Marc Cavazza

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Computing, University of Teesside TS1 3BA, United Kingdom;School of Computing, University of Teesside TS1 3BA, United Kingdom;School of Computing, University of Teesside TS1 3BA, United Kingdom;School of Computing, University of Teesside TS1 3BA, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • ACII '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) within an emotional planner to support Interactive Storytelling. Our emotional planner is based on a standard HSP planner, whose originality is drawn from altering the agents' beliefs and emotional states. Each character is driven by its own planner, while characters are able to operate on their reciprocal feelings thus affecting each other. Our baseline story is constituted by a classic XIXthcentury French novel from Gustave Flaubert in which characters feelings play a dominant role. This approach benefits from the fact that Flaubert has described a specific ontology for his characters feelings. The objective of NLP should be to uncover from natural language utterances the same kind of affective elements, which requires an integration between NLP and the planning component at the level of semantic content. This research is illustrated with examples from a first fully integrated prototype comprising NLP, emotional planning and real-time 3D animation.