Balancing Narrative Control and Autonomy for Virtual Characters in a Game Scenario

We report on an effort to combine methods from storytelling and multimodal dialogue systems research to achieve flexible and immersive performances involving believable virtual characters conversing with human users. The trade-off between narrative control and character autonomy is exemplified in a game scenario.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: INTETAIN
• Authors: Markus Löckelt, Elsa Pecourt, Norbert Pfleger
• Keywords: Believable Virtual Characters, Immersive Performances, INTETAIN 2005, Multimodal Dialogue Systems