This paper describes the interactive narrative experiences in Babyz, an interactive entertainment product for the PC currently in development at PF Magic / Mindscape in San Francisco, to be released in October 1999. Babyz are believable agents designed and implemented in the tradition of Dogz and Catz, Your Virtual Petz. As virtual human characters, Babyz are more intelligent, expressive and co...

Narrative intelligence is the use of narrative to make sense of the world and to communicate with other people. The generation of stories involving social and cultural situations (eating at a restaurant, going on a date, etc.) requires an extensive amount of experiential knowledge. While this knowledge can be encoded in the form of scripts, schemas, or frames, the manual authoring of these know...

Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, 27695 [email protected] 919.513.3038 In this paper, we set out a basic approach to the modeling of narrative in interactive virtual worlds. This approach adopts a bipartite model taken from narrative theory, in which narrative is composed of story and discourse. In our approach, story elements – plot and character – ar...

Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, 27695 [email protected] 919.513.3038 In this paper, we set out a basic approach to the modeling of narrative in interactive virtual worlds. This approach adopts a bipartite model taken from narrative theory, in which narrative is composed of story and discourse. In our approach, story elements – plot and character – ar...

Children with autism exhibit a deficit in the comprehension and creation of narrative which impacts their social world. Our ongoing research agenda is to find ways of developing interactive learning environments which enhance the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative and thus the social world. The study reported here involved 12 children in a longitudinal study which...

background & aim: emotional intelligence is one of the most important issues that has strong effects on patient nursing care. currently, a concept analysis approach is considered as one of the most important approaches for nursing knowledge development. therefore, this narrative study is done by content analysis approach to understand and use emotional intelligence in nursing. methods & materia...

Abstract While today there is much discussion about the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), less work has been done on philosophical nature AI. Drawing Bergson and Ricoeur, this paper proposes to use concepts time, process, narrative conceptualize AI its normatively relevant impact human lives society. Distinguishing between a number different ways in which time are related, explores what i...

We discuss the importance of narrative intelligence (story-awareness, story-telling, historical grounding) in regard to an agent’s transcendence of its immediate local temporal context to create a broad temporal horizon in which the experience and future of the agent can be accounted for, together with the advantage that narrative provides to sociality by making the experience of others availab...

In this paper, we describe NKRL (Narrative Knowledge Representation Language), a conceptual modeling formalism for taking into account the semantic characteristics of this important component of eChronicle information represented by the ‘narrative’ documents. In these documents, the main part of the information consists in the description of the ‘events’ that relate the real or intended behavio...