▪ Leary’s Rose: a model that divides interpersonal stances in the dimensions of dominance and friendliness. ▪ My proposal: virtual characters use this model to reason OOC to adopt an IC stance that opposes that of the police officer. ▪ Example below: a police officer has a friendly-submissive (cooperative) stance toward a juvenile. ▪ OOC the juvenile adopts an opposing hostile-dominant stance (...

Narrative, and in particular storytelling, is an important part of the human experience. Consequently, computational systems that can reason about narrative can be more effective communicators, entertainers, educators, and trainers. One of the central challenges in computational narrative reasoning is narrative generation, the automated creation of meaningful event sequences. There are many fac...

Interactive storytelling in the virtual environment attracts a lot of research interests in recent years. Story plot and character are two most important elements of a story. Based on these two elements, currently there are two research directions: plot-based and character-based interactive storytelling. However, plot-based approach lacks the refinement of character behaviors as character-based...

Better representations of plot structure could greatly improve computational methods for summarizing and generating stories. Current representations lack abstraction, focusing too closely on events. We present a kernel for comparing novelistic plots at a higher level, in terms of the cast of characters they depict and the social relationships between them. Our kernel compares the characters of ...