Media studies research of the 1990s illustrated an incongruity between cultural diversity in the Australian community with the representation of that diversity on commercial television screens. Australian drama in particular received much criticism for its seemingly “Anglo” portrayal of Australian society. Most of this former research was based on program content analysis and critical approache...

Drama managers reconfigure a game in reaction to a player’s actions. In declarative optimization-based drama management (DODM), a game’s story is abstracted as a sequence of plot points; possible drama manager interventions are abstracted as a set of DM actions. The author defines an function evaluating story quality, and some optimization method (currently reinforcement learning) chooses DM ac...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in constructing rich interactive entertainment and training experiences. As these experiences have grown in complexity, there has been a corresponding growing need for the development of robust technologies to shape and modify those experiences in reaction to the actions of human participants. One popular mechanism for addressing this need is t...

There has in recent years been a big development in art therapy. It has been confined mostly to painting and modelling but reports are published of experiments in helping the mentally unbalanced also through music, dancing, speech, drama and mime. The emphasis in these forms is usually upon the act of artistic creation. To put the principle in the simplest most general form, it is that by getti...

Our research target is reference relations between descriptions of script and an actor/actress who actually plays in the drama scene that correspond to the scene direction which is a part of the script. In this paper, first we analyze sentences used as the scene directions, and classify them. Then we propose the rules to extract subjects and predicates from those sentences. With the extracted s...

In this work, we propose integrating a drama manager into a visual novel to guide both storytelling and health intervention. We discuss certain narrative structures that can be used to guide a visual-novel-based health intervention and can potentially benefit future drama manager research. A Visual Novel for Health Care There has been a growing interest in developing and evaluating “games for h...

The present paper studies Kitchen Sink Drama and Naturalism to investigate how a cultural movement through which artists like Arnold Wesker, John Osborne, and Shelagh Delaney express their disillusionment during the post-war period representing the reality of their lives via theatre. The period of 1956–1965 can be considered as a period of time identifying post-war British theatre which is rela...

Drama managers reconfigure a game in reaction to a player’s actions. In declarative optimization-based drama management (DODM), a game’s story is abstracted as a sequence of plot points; possible drama manager interventions are abstracted as a set of DM actions. The author defines an function evaluating story quality, and some optimization method (currently reinforcement learning) chooses DM ac...