A critical review of interactive drama systems

Adaptive and Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems - Proceedings of the 23rd Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, AISB 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 15-26

  Arinbjarnar, Maria ^a   Barber, Heather ^a   Kudenko, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL REVIEW; HIGH DEGREE OF FREEDOM; INTERACTIVE DRAMA; NON-PLAYER CHARACTER; TECHNIQUES USED; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84859062765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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