Duality of Actor and Character Goals in Virtual Drama

Maria Arinbjarnar, Daniel Kudenko

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Abstract

Actor agents in a virtual reality and interactive drama must deliver a believable performance. This is challenging and many issues need to be resolved. One prominent problem is that the goals of a character in all emergent interactive drama may conflict with demands for coherency in the drama's progress. We propose an approach to resolve this that uses Object Oriented Bayesian networks and intelligent agents with dual roles: an actor role focused on the dramatic goals of the story, and a character role focused on believable actions in line with the character's personality and goals.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationINTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS, PROCEEDINGS
EditorsZ Ruttkay, M Kipp, A Nijholt, HH Vilhjalmsson
Place of PublicationBERLIN
PublisherSpringer
Pages386-392
Number of pages7
Volume5773 LNAI
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-04379-6
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - Amsterdam
Duration: 14 Sep 200916 Sep 2009

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
CityAmsterdam
Period14/09/0916/09/09

Keywords

  • GAMES

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