Multi-level direction of autonomous creatures for real-time virtual environments
SIGGRAPH '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
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
Believable agents: building interactive personalities
Believable agents: building interactive personalities
Interactive drama, art and artificial intelligence
Interactive drama, art and artificial intelligence
An empirical study of cognition and theatrical improvisation
Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
Research in interactive drama environments, role-play and story-telling
ICIDS'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
A Robust Interactive Narrative Framework for Edutainment
International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies
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Interactive narrative is an approach to interactive entertainment or learning in which a system attempts to tell a story to an interactive participant. In this paper we report on a study to compare the theoretical strengths and weaknesses of two approaches to developing computational interactive narrative systems. We compare two approaches to interactive narrative: emergent approaches utilizing autonomous virtual character agents, and drama management approaches utilizing semi-autonomous virtual character agents. Our study uses improvisational theatre as an idealized, human analogue to computational interactive narrative. Results suggest that, regardless of approach, idealized interactive narrative systems should be nearly indistinguishable in terms of character believability and narrative coherence. Results suggest that drama management systems may have an advantage when particular features are required to emerge in players' interactive experiences.