Title
An Experiment in Improvised Interactive Drama
Abstract
To inform the design of interactive drama systems, we investigate the experience of an interactor being part of a story that they can have a fundamental influence on. Improvisational theatre might serve as a model for this experience, where there is no pre-scripted plot; each of its actors shares responsibility for the collaborative emergence of a story. This requires a performer attitude from the interactor. We describe an experiment in which improv actors create a story together with subjects who have no improv experience, to find out how we can characterize this experience, and how it might be achieved. Our results support a recent hypothesis that an interactor in interactive drama might be treated as a collaborative performer rather than an (antagonistic) player.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_25
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Interactive Storytelling,Dramatic Presence,Interactive Drama,Improvisational Theatre
Improvisation,Computer science,Simulation,Drama,Interactor,Performing arts,Interactive storytelling,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9
1867-8211
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.61
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ivo Swartjes111010.08
Mariët Theune237943.91