Improvisational Synthetic Actors with Flexible Personalities

Why to Create Personalities for Synthetic Actors

The Black Sheep - Interactive Improvisation in a 3D Virtual World

In this article we describe our efforts to develop an Improvisational Platform that provides a possibility for real-time interaction between a user-controlled avatar and a group of synthetic actors in a 3D virtual world. The platform will allow to play around with different improvisational rules and even different settings. This will be accomplished by having a repertoire of basic behaviours fo...

Improv: Interactive Improvisational Animation and Music

Improv is a system for the creation of real-time behavior-based animated actors. There have been several recent efforts to build network distributed autonomous agents, but in general, these efforts do not focus on the author’s view. To create rich interactive worlds inhabited by believable animated actors, authors need the proper tools. Improv provides tools to create actors that respond to use...

Employing Fuzzy Concept for Digital Improvisational Theatre

This paper describes the creation of a digital improvisational theatre game, called Party Quirks, that allows a human user to improvise a scene with synthetic actors according to the rules of the real-world Party Quirks improv game. The AI actor behaviors are based on our study of communication strategies between real-life actors on stage and the fuzzy concepts that they employ to define and po...

Improvisational Puppets, Actors, and Avatars

We are investigating three kinds of advanced capabilities for computer game characters. First, we want characters to exhibit life-like qualities. They should show distinctive personalities, context-dependent moods, and normal variability in their behavior. Second, we want characters to follow directions . They should accept directions from various external sources, including game designers, gam...