Creating Customized Virtual Experiences by Leveraging Human Creative Effort: A Desideratum

The task of entertaining people has, until very recently, been the exclusive domain of humans. However, recent work in the area of computational creativity, story generation, interactive storytelling, and autonomous believable agents suggests that AI may be used to create dynamic, interactive, and engaging real-time entertainment experiences. In this paper we consider the role of a novel technique called Experience Adaptation in the process of creating and delivering customized entertaining experiences. Experience Adaptation is an offline process that leverages human creative ability by taking human-authored storylines – in this case specifications of desired future experiences – and autonomously “re-writing” them based on unique requirements of individual users. With Experience Adaptation, we are working toward effectively scaling up entertainment computing.