Readers of this article have probably seen, at least once, diagrams produced using the UML (Unified Modeling Language). Some of you have perhaps used UML for your own work and know that the UML can also be applied to a variety of analytic disciplines, ranging from economics to electronics, from mathematics to medicine, etc. However, you are less likely to have encountered UML in the strictly ar...

Achieving a successful Interactive Drama where the user can act as a character in the story requires not only finding an algorithmic solution for combining interactivity and narrativity, but also interfacing those algorithms with the user. This paper focuses on the way in which the user can choose the actions of the character. Three specific issues are discussed: the variety of choices proposed...

WHAT IS ADOLESCENCE? Adolescence, which comes from the Latin word adolescere, meaning " to grow up, " is used to describe the period of life between childhood and adulthood. It is commonly defined as starting around puberty and ending when an individual has developed an independent, stable role in society. Adolescence is not a new phenomenon. Ancient humans experienced adolescence and Aristotle...

In this paper, we describe a methodology for annotating characters’ emotions in narrative media. Given the semantic annotation of the story, the emotional state of its characters is inferred through SWRL rules that encode the emotion appraisal process. In order to exemplify the model and test the emotional states generated by the SWRL module, we resort to a well-known dramatic situation and we ...

Authoring non linear narratives is a difficult and challenging issue. In this paper we focus on the process of authoring with the IDtension system, an interactive drama system designed by one of the authors. We report an experiment of realizing a real-size scenario and start from this point to think about nonlinear narratives and the possibilities and limits of the IDtension writing tool. We in...

Here, therefore, we find pressed upon us the question, What was the origin of these extravagant ideas of domestic honor and domestic rights, which are found in the old Spanish drama from thé beginning of the full length plays of Torres Naharro, and which are thus exhibited in all their excess in the plays of Calderon? The question is certainly difficult to answer, as are all like it that depend...