Introduction The consideration of tragic pleasure is old, harkening back to contemporary critique of Greek tragedy. It is reasonable, however, to believe that no one, from then to now, has been able to deliberate upon the subject of delight in the portrayal of suffering while excluding all reference to reader response. Even if only implicitly conveyed, the focus of tragic pleasure is studying w...

Certification is the process by which individual practitioners of a profession are deemed competent, by a peer review process, to practice that profession. Criminalistics is a rather young profession, and until the recent publicity occasioned by a myriad of television dramas and documentaries, a rather obscure one. There has been little oversight of the profession and little call for such overs...

sense; the plot qua καθόλου is no particular play, but the general form of any number of dramas. The subsequent plot summary of Iphigenia among the Taurians (1455b3-12) confirms this sense of καθόλου as the form of the plot; Aristotle’s description excludes specific episodic details such as names and places, and is so concerned with the abstract organization of events that it even posits that t...

There are many psychosocial aspects of chronic diseases, such as diabetes. Educational multimedia can support patients with chronic diseases and their families by communicating narratives based on social realism. The production of such socio-realistic interactive health dramas requires systematic methods, especially for the identification of significant stories. The aim of this study is to expl...

This paper presents the process of creation of virtual agents used in a virtual reality performance. The performance aimed to investigate how drama and performance could inform the creation of virtual agents and also how virtual reality could raise questions for drama and performance. The virtual agents were based on the performance of 2 actors. This paper describes the process of preparing the...

Interaction and Narrative is a chapter from Michael’s Ph.D. dissertation on Expressive AI (AI-based art and entertainment) [Mateas 2002]. A significant portion of the dissertation describes his collaborative work with Andrew Stern on the interactive drama Façade [Mateas & Stern 2004a; Mateas & Stern 2004b; Mateas and Stern 2003; Mateas and Stern 2002a; Mateas and Stern 2002b]; the purpose of th...

One of the key questions in the design and development of interactive drama is structuring an experience for participants such that an engaging, coherent narrative is presented while enabling a high degree of perceived meaningful interactivity. This paper proposes a new approach to the design of intelligent drama managers (DMs) where DM strategies are learned from a corpus of data collected fro...

Previous research on news perception has been dominated by a cognitively oriented perspective on reception processes, whereas emotions have been widely neglected. Consequently, it has remained open which features of a news story might elicit affective responses and hence modulate news perception, shifting the focus to the emotional potential of the narrative. According to the affective-disposit...

The article proposes a theoretical framework in which moral reasoning about mediated crime and punishment is defined and combined with existing, affect-driven entertainment theory to yield an integrated theory of enjoyment. The authors analyze how crime dramas serve as statements about justice and then address how moral deliberation about the propriety of those statements impacts enjoyment. The...

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