Experimental Evaluation of Suspense Formulas

My IRIS system contains a set of forumulas that consist of actions that the Drama Manager can perform in certain sequences to create suspense. I plan on evaluating these formula experimentally. I hope to show that these formula are sufficient to create suspense, in that they are comparable to a human author's mental formula for creating suspense and better than a logically consistent baseline. The experiment will be designed as follows: Participants will be given some background initial info about the world, such as "This takes place in a medieval fantasy world. There is a maiden, a knight, a friendly wizard, and an evil dragon. The knight is trying to kill the dragon." There is a bank of sentences that I will create that can combine to form fragments of a story in this fantasy world. These sentences are divided into three different phases. The phases are created so that as long as you follow the pattern (Phase 1 sentence)* (Phase 2 sentence)* (Phase 3 sentence)* then the story will be logically consistent. An example of the bank might be: Phase 1 The wizard tells the knight where the dragon is hiding.