Investigating director agents' decision making in interactive narrative: a Wizard-of-Oz study

  • Authors:
  • Seung Y. Lee;Bradford W. Mott;James C. Lester

  • Affiliations:
  • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies III Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Interactive narrative planning offers significant potential for creating engaging narrative experiences that are tailored to individual users. Orchestrating all of the events in a storyworld to create optimal user experiences calls for effective narrative decision-making. A key requirement of this endeavor is understanding the role that different knowledge sources play in narrative decision making. To investigate knowledge sources for interactive narrative, a corpus was collected in a Wizard-of-Oz (WOZ) study conducted with a narrative-centered learning environment. With narrative planning and natural language dialogue functionalities provided by wizards, the data from the WOZ study offers insight into the knowledge sources involved in narrative decision making and suggests how these knowledge sources can be effectively utilized by a narrative planner to create engaging interactive narratives.