Managing Interaction between Users and Agents in a Multi-agent Storytelling Environment

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 741-748

  Riedl, Mark ^a   Saretto, C J ^b   Young, R Michael ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer games; Embodied agents; Interactive narrative; Planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER GAMES; EMBODIED AGENTS; INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 1142268754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860690.860694     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (23)

1. Blumberg, B.M. & Galyean, T.A. (1995). Multi-level direction of autonomous creatures for real-time virtual environments. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '95, 47-54.
2. Bruckman, A. (1990). The combinatorics of storytelling: Mystery train revisited. Unpublished manuscript.
3. Carberry, S. (2001). Techniques for plan recognition. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 11(1-2), 31-48.
4. Cavazza, M., Charles, F., & Mead, S.J. (2002). Character-based interactive story-telling. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 17(4), 156-162.
5. Egri, L. (1946). The Art of Dramatic Writing: It's Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives. New York: Simon & Schuster.
6. Firby, R.J. (1994). Adaptive Execution in Complex Dynamic Domains. Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University Technical Report YALEU/CSD/RR#672.
7. Galyean, T.A. (1995). Narrative Guidance of Interactivity. Ph.D. Dissertation, MIT Media Arts and Sciences Program.
8. Gerrig, R.J. (1993). Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading. Cambridge, MA: Yale University Press.
9. Graesser, A.C., Lang, K.L., Roberts, R.M. (1991). Question answering in the context of stories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 120(3).
10. Grosz, B. & Kraus, S. (1996). Collaborative plans for complex group action. Artificial Intelligence, 86(2), 269-357.
11. st International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, San Francisco, CA, 1995.
12. Laird, J.E., Newell, A., & Rosenbloom, P.S. (1987). Soar: An architecture for general intelligence. Artificial Intelligence, 33(1), 1-64.
13. Lombard, M. & Ditton, T. (1997). At the heart of it all: the concept of presence. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 3(2).
14. Penberthy, J. & Weld, D. UCPOP: A sound, complete, partial order planner for ADL. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, pages 103-114, Cambridge, MA, 1992.
15. Rickel, J. & Johnson, W.L. (1999). Animated agents for procedural training in virtual reality: perception, cognition, and motor control. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 13: 343-382.
16. Sacerdoti, E. D. A. Structure for Plans and Behavior, American Elsevier, New York, 1977
17. Saretto, C.J. (2001). Mediating User Interaction in Narrative-Structured Virtual Environments. Masters Thesis. Department of Computer Science, NC State University.
18. Swartout, W., Hill, R., Gratch, J., Johnson, W.L. et al. (2001). Toward the holodeck: Integrating graphics, sound, character and story. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 2001.
19. Young, R.M., Pollack, M.E., & Moore, J.D. (1994). Decomposition and causality in partial-order planning. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on AI and Planning Systems, 188-193, Chicago, IL, 1994.
20. Young, R.M. (1999). Using Grice's maxim of quantity to select the content of plan descriptions. Artificial Intelligence, 115, 215-256.
21. Young, R.M. (2001). An overview of the Mimesis architecture: integrating intelligent narrative control into an existing gaming environment. The Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment, 78-81, Stanford, CA, March 2001.
22. Young, R.M. & Riedl, M.O. (2003). Towards an architecture for intelligent control of narrative in interactive virtual worlds. In Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 310-313.
23. Weyhrauch, P. (1997). Guiding Interactive Fiction. Ph.D. Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.