Thinning the Fourth Wall with Intelligent Prompt

Abstract

Abstract. This paper presents a digitally enhanced model of performeraudience communion in an interactive storytelling setting, based on an intelligent prompt system. The audience response is taken into account through emotion detection; the performer decides about her/his attitude towards the audience. The intelligent prompt advises the performer about how to continue the story. The model, named DoPPioGioco ("DoublePlay"), has been implemented as a prototype system, a virtual environment that realizes a feedback loop between the performer and audience.

Algorithms and Interoperability between Drama and Artificial Intelligence

“…Following this idea, at CIRMA (Interdepartmental Centre for the Research on Multimedia and Audiovideo; www.cirma.unito.it) we have developed a software system called DoPPioGioco (Damiano, Lombardo, and Pizzo 2017). It is a computational platform that intervenes in the performeraudience relationship as an "intelligent prompt" that suggests to the performer the next story chunk, taking into account both the audience's emotional response and the performer's decisions.…”