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We report on an effort to combine methods from storytelling and multimodal dialogue systems research to achieve flexible and immersive performances involving believable virtual characters conversing with human users. The trade-off between narrative control and character autonomy is exemplified in a game scenario.
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Löckelt, M., Pecourt, E., Pfleger, N. (2005). Balancing Narrative Control and Autonomy for Virtual Characters in a Game Scenario. In: Maybury, M., Stock, O., Wahlster, W. (eds) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. INTETAIN 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3814. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590323_29
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