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Emergent Stories Facilitated

An Architecture to Generate Stories Using Intelligent Synthetic Characters

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2008)

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In this paper we address the issue of how to transform a set of actions and behaviors generated by autonomous characters into a meaningful and interesting story. To do that, we consider the issues involved in developing an architecture that is generic enough to be applied to entertainment/educational applications that convey stories through the interactions between intelligent graphical characters and a user. As such, issues in organizing the emergent content are discussed and a generic story facilitator (a kind of game master) is described. Finally two storytelling applications that use the architecture are described demonstrating the generality of the approach.

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  1. INESC-ID, Avenida Prof. Cavaco Silva - Taguspark, 2780-990, Porto Salvo, Portugal

    Rui Figueiredo, Antonio Brisson & Ana Paiva

  2. Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

    Ruth Aylett

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  1. FH Erfurt, University of Applied Sciences, Altonaerstr. 25, 99085, Erfurt, Germany

    Ulrike Spierling

  2. TECFA, FPSE, University of Geneva, CH 1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Nicolas Szilas

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Figueiredo, R., Brisson, A., Aylett, R., Paiva, A. (2008). Emergent Stories Facilitated. In: Spierling, U., Szilas, N. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_29

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