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Improvisational Computational Storytelling in Open Worlds

Authors : Lara J. Martin, Brent Harrison, Mark O. Riedl

Published in: Interactive Storytelling

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Improvisational storytelling involves one or more people interacting in real-time to create a story without advanced notice of topic or theme. Human improvisation occurs in an open-world that can be in any state and characters can perform any behaviors expressible through natural language. We propose the grand challenge of computational improvisational storytelling in open-world domains. The goal is to develop an intelligent agent that can sensibly co-create a story with one or more humans through natural language. We lay out some of the research challenges and propose two agent architectures that can provide the basis for exploring the research issues surrounding open-world human-agent interactions.

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This analysis excludes the possibility of creating new objects.
 
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Metadata
Title
Improvisational Computational Storytelling in Open Worlds
Authors
Lara J. Martin
Brent Harrison
Mark O. Riedl
Copyright Year
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Interactive Storytelling

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-48278-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-48279-8

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48279-8_7

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