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...

At the meeting points of different cultures, a unique quality is born. That what we can experience when sacred round dance, dance therapy, and talent development meet overlap. The study aims to present project operated by Budapest 10th district Educational Consultant Team with support Hungarian National Talent Program. program, named Square-Dance-Theatre-Scene, was started as an experiment, int...

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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Copyright © 2012 Massachusetts Medical Society. A mong the many challenges to health, infectious diseases stand out for their ability to have a profound impact on the human species. Great pandemics and local epidemics alike have influenced the course of wars, determined the fates of nations and empires, and affected the progress of civilization, making infections compelling actors in the drama ...

A growing research community is working towards employing drama management components in interactive story-based games. These components gently guide the story towards a narrative arc that improves the player’s experience. In this paper we present our Drama Management architecture for real-time interactive story games that has been connected to a real graphical interactive story based on the An...