Paper Info
Title
Evaluating directorial control in a character-centric interactive narrative framework
Abstract
Interactive narrative allows the user to play a role in a story and interact with other characters controlled by the system. Directorial control is a procedure for dynamically tuning the interaction towards the author's desired effects. Most existing approaches for directorial control are built within plot-centric frameworks for interactive narrative and do not have a systematic way to ensure that the characters are always well-motivated during the interaction. Thespian is a character-centric framework for interactive narrative. In our previous work on Thespian, we presented an approach for applying directorial control while not affecting the consistency of characters' motivations. This work evaluates the effectiveness of our directorial control approach. Given the priority of generating only well-motivated characters' behaviors, we empirically evaluate how often the author's desired effects are achieved. We also discuss how the directorial control procedure can save the author effort in configuring the characters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.5555/1838206.1838374
AAMAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
character-centric framework,plot-centric framework,character-centric interactive narrative framework,existing approach,directorial control,interactive narrative,previous work,directorial control procedure,well-motivated character,author effort,directorial control approach
Computer science,Interactive narrative,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.67
17
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mei Si125924.87
Stacy Marsella23290297.09
David V. Pynadath31556130.56