A drama manager guides a player through a story experience by modifying the experience in reaction to the player’s actions. Declarative optimization-based drama management (DODM) casts the drama-management problem as an optimization problem: The author declaratively specifies a set of plot points in a story, a set of actions the drama manager can take, and an evaluation function that rates a pa...

Procedural story generation is an active and increasingly important area of interactive entertainment. Some of the most difficult challenges with the concept are generation and managing of dramatic elements with high degree of variation that are both internally consistent and entertaining. If an authoring system could access a large repository of proven sets of domain specific dramatic action s...

Traditionally, a driving goal of digital storytelling is the generation of dramatic stories with human significance, but for learning purposes, the need for drama is complemented by the requirement of achieving particular learning outcomes. This paper presents an interactive storytelling conceptual framework that supports the dynamic creation of stories based on predefined pedagogical goals. Th...

A drama manager (DM) monitors an interactive experience, such as a computer game, and intervenes to shape the global experience so that it satisfies the author's expressive goals without decreasing a player's interactive agency. Most research work on drama management has proposed AI architectures and provided abstract evaluations of their effectiveness. A smaller body of work has evaluated the ...

Substantial research effort has been put into creating a truly interactive drama that is not only entertaining but also gives the player a sense of coherency and that she is an active participant in the unfolding drama. A fully interactive drama has the potential of revolutionising entertainment, gaming, education, therapy and news coverage. If pre-authored stories are directly implemented into...

As virtual characters become more autonomous, their use in interactive drama is growing. By creating interesting and well authored personalities, these characters are able to interact with each other and create appealing non-scripted stories. As with any other story, we may want to re-tell it or create a summary of the essential parts. Our goal was to create comic-like summaries of these storie...

undoubtedly, holy books are fundamentally and substantially different from that of written by mankind. these celestial words have categorized such holy books as the artistic and literary masterpieces of its kind. in fact, most of the language rules based on verse and literary beauty had token from aforementioned books.the method of storytelling in holy quran is in the way which by reading the s...

In stories, the emotional charge of the characters plays an important role in engaging the audience. The emotional states of the characters allow the audience to understand their motivations and to perceive their reactions to a dramatic situation. In this paper, relying on a semantic representation of the drama features, we present and evaluate an emotional rule system that generates the charac...

This article undertakes textual analysis to examine some of the ways in which knowledge around sexuality-related youth suicide and its causes are produced and made available through news media discourses and news-making processes. Four categories of sexuality-related suicide discourses were identified in news stories and features over the past 20 years: statistical research that makes non-heter...

This paper considers narrative theory in the light of the requirements of a project just started to use stories around the theme of bullying to build empathy in child users and achieve pedagogical objectives. It describes and discusses the theories of Aristotle, Propp and Barthes, and concludes that the approach taken in improvisational drama and human Role playing Games is more appropriate for...