1. Dilemmas generated by a rational approach to conflict 2. Reaction to the dilemmas; metagame theory 3. Dilemmas of agreement and disagreement; metagame analysis 4. From metagame analysis to drama theory 5. The six phases of conflict resolution 5.1. The scene-setting phase 5.2. The build-up phase 5.3. The climax phase 5.4. The conflict phase 5.5. The resolution phase 5.6.The implementation pha...

We are designing computer programs for Interactive Drama, where the audience can act to modify the story while the computer responds to these acts and maintains the narrative nature of the experience. Such computer based Interactive Drama requires narrative models able to both simulate the narrative on a deep level, and allow the user to interact with it. We discuss in this paper the extent to ...

This paper presents a design and experiments of developing a non-goal dialog system by utilizing human-to-human conversation examples from drama television. The aim is to build a conversational agent that can interact with users in as natural a fashion as possible, while reducing the time requirement for database design and collection. A number of the challenging design issues we faced are desc...

Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative – an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama. Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, we are completing a three year collaboration to engineer a novel architect...

Abstract This article investigates new perspectives on ecocriticism through the works of Flemish poet Dominique De Groen. Taking Timothy Morton’s notion ‘dark ecology’ as a starting point, it argues that Groen’s poetry represents form anthropocenic writing exceeds scope traditional ecocriticism. Read lens Anthropocene both geological era and an episteme, her can shed light entanglement between ...