Narrative time has an important role to play in Interac- tive Storytelling (IS). The prevailing approach to control- ling narrative time has been to use implicit models that allow only limited temporal reasoning about virtual agent behaviour. In contrast, this paper proposes the use of an explicit model of narrative time which provides a control mechanism that enhances narrative generation, orchestra- tion of virtual agents and number of possibilities for the staging of agent actions. This approach can help address a number of problems experienced in IS systems both at the level of execution staging and at the level of narrative gen- eration. Consequently it has a number of advantages: it is more flexible with respect to the staging of virtual agent ac- tions; it reduces the possibility of timing problems in the co- ordination of virtual agents; and it enables more expressive representation of narrative worlds and narrative generative power. Overall it provides a uniform, consistent, principled and rigorous approach to the problem of time in agent-based storytelling. In the paper we demonstrate how this approach to controlling narrative time can be implemented within an IS system and illustrate this using our fully implemented IS system that features virtual agents inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice . The paper presents results of an experimental evaluation with the system that demonstrates the use of this approach to co-ordinate the actions of virtual agents and to increase narrative generative power.
Controlling narrative time in interactive storytelling
2011-01-01
Porteous , J J , Teutenberg , J J , Charles , F F & Cavazza , M O M 2011 , Controlling narrative time in interactive storytelling . in Tumer , Yolum , Sonenberg & Stone (eds) , Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011) . International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS) , pp. 449-456 , 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems , Taipei , Taiwan, Province of China , 2/05/11 . < http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2011/papers/D3_G56.pdf >
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