A pressing task for researchers who seek to build systems capable of emulating intelligent narrative agents is to develop a basis for ascribing situationally appropriate (and thus believable) emotional states to participants in storyworlds. In this paper, we use a natural-language narrative to examine discourse processes by which storytellers in face-to-face communication construct themselves a...

This thesis represents a planner based approach to the application of video semantics and theme representation to the automated editing of visual stories at the level of events. The research draws on film theory (in order to define methods to perform automated editing, to model the fundamental units of the image and the conceptual relationships between image, shot and sequence); on narrative an...

Several studies have revealed the importance of executive functioning processes for school learning. However, research examining which specific executive functions (EFs) can influence written expression is scarce. This work aimed at i) analyzing the relationship between different EF tasks and different writing tasks (writing a narrative text vs. writing an expository text) and ii) studying whic...

Several studies have revealed the importance of executive functioning processes for school learning. However, research examining which specific executive functions (EFs) can influence written expression is scarce. This work aimed at i) analyzing the relationship between different EF tasks and different writing tasks (writing a narrative text vs. writing an expository text) and ii) studying whic...

In this position paper, the author proposes the use of social networks of characters as an AI narrative generation mechanism. The first part of the paper offers examples of recent research by literary critics on the relationship between character networks and narrative structure. The second part of the paper offers a simple example of story generation based on a structural balance network model...

In this work, we address the question of generating understandable narratives using a cognitive approach. The requirements of cognitive plausibility are presented. Then an abduction-based cognitive model of the human deliberative reasoning ability is presented. We believe that implementing such a procedure in a narrative context to generate plans would increase the chances that the characters w...

As an alternative to naturalistic and servile virtual agents highlighted in recent years this paper presents idiosyncratic, supernatural and attentionbegging assistants as a new approach to agent based assistance. The paper portrays a society of disembodied, location-specific conversational agents (DELCA) called ‘Ghosts’ inhabiting a social Darwinist interactive narrative universe designed to p...

Interactive Drama is the ultimate challenge of digital entertainment. In this paper, from our seven year experience in Interactive Drama, we try to shape the history of the field and envision what will be (or should be) the future of this history. Two main directions in particular are stressed, because we feel that the success of Interactive Drama lies in these two directions. The first one con...