A new non-deterministic drama manager for adaptive interactive storytelling

Utsch, Milo N.R.; Pappa, Gisele L.; Chaimowicz, Luiz; Prates, Raquel O.

doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2020.100364

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“…In order to provide the user with a desired feeling of agency, i.e., that the user's choices and actions have (or feel like having) a real influence in the outcomes of the narrative, the AI that drives the branching narrativeusually referred to as "drama manager" [54][55][56][57][58][59]-needs to include a credible response repertoire for each interactable NPC deployed in the storyworld, which is consistent with the set of trajectories in which the narrative can unfold. In the case of XR implementations, the multimodal representation of virtual characters poses further challenges in terms of believability and what has been called "the uncanny valley" [60,61].…”

Section: Agents and Aimentioning

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Digital Narratives in Extended Realities

Bruni¹,

Kadastik²,

Pedersen³

et al. 2022

Roadmapping Extended Reality

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XR technologies are increasingly considered as expressive media with special qualities for narrative representation. In this chapter, we chart some of the major challenges inherent in the implementation of digital narratives in XR. For this purpose, we consider the intersections between different research domains like classical and post-structural narratology, cognitive narratology, literary studies, computer science, game research, cognitive science, and particularly interactive digital narratives (IDN) and storytelling. As with IDN, many of the challenges of implementing narratives in XR have to do with the trade-offs between interactivity and immersion. In this direction, we aim to contribute to the bridging between the IDN and XR research domains. We elaborate on specific issues in IDN that may require particular care in XR, such as agency, embodiment, narration, "point of view technologies, " artificial agents, and AI. Additionally, we provide examples of different application domains in games, serious games, cultural experiences, healthcare, and immersive journalism. To conclude, we highlight the eminent role of narrative cognition in XR and suggest a roadmap for combining XR technologies, cognitive sciences, advanced biometric signals processing, and storytelling techniques for investigating ways we interact cognitively with stories and the effects of XR narratives on the human emotional-cognitive system.

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Section: Agents and Aimentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Narratives in Extended Realities

Bruni¹,

Kadastik²,

Pedersen³

et al. 2022

Roadmapping Extended Reality

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“…However, the most emphasised goal is a good User Experience (UX). Importance of UX is also reflected in how IDN creators often use UX evaluation to measure their success [34].…”

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“…[5] is interested in the idea of persuasion or degree to which the player was persuaded to take a particular action. Conversely, [34] talks about the degree to which the player felt like he was being manipulated by the system. These concepts were coded as manipulation.…”

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“…Most efforts at increasing interactivity, by relying on emergent narratives for example [32], do so at the expense of authorial control and/or quality. Subsequent efforts, like drama managers [33] try to retain complexity and improve quality by introducing new architectures and more sophisticated technology [34]. While some authoring tools support debugging and visualization of the underlying structure [35], as complexity increases these become hard to fully comprehend.…”

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A Systematic Analysis of User Experience Dimensions for Interactive Digital Narratives

Revi

Millard

Middleton

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Providing intelligent feedback to aid authoring has been proposed as a way to speed up authoring, give the author more control, and to enable the authoring of more complex interactive narratives. However, there is little research investigating what concrete feedback items would be useful for interactive digital narrative (IDN) creators. In this paper, we discuss potentially useful feedback items in relation to authoring goals and concerns. We perform a systematic literature review to make a list of concrete feedback items of interest related to the most emphasised concern of authoring -the effect of the interactive narrative on the user. We identify 47 User Experience (UX) dimensions in the IDN literature that could serve as useful feedback items, covering 8 categories -Agency, Cognition, Immersion, Affect, Drama, Rewards, Motivation and Dissonance. This list combines and untangles how different IDN researchers have interpreted and expressed interest in the complex idea of UX in the past decade and gives us insight into what concrete aspects of UX might be useful to estimate via automated feedback.

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