Narrative in Learning Environments

Narrative in Learning Environments Isabel Machado Alexandre GAIPS INESC-ID, ISCTE Email: Isabel.Machado@inesc-id.pt

Research Interests • Narrative Intelligence • Virtual Storytelling • Intelligent Learning Environments • Synthetic Agents • Emotions and Affective Computing NLE – SIG 4th November 2004

Previous Research • Teatrix: • Collaborative virtual environment for story creation developed within the context of the EU project NIMIS • SAGA (Support and Guidance Architecture) • PhD Research • VICTEC (Virtual ICT with Emphatic Characters) NLE – SIG 4th November 2004

Approach • Assumes that the story being created and told is not predefined manually but created collaboratively by the users • Merges the author, actor and spectator roles • Director Agent provides support and guidance for the achievement of a meaningful story NLE – SIG 4th November 2004

SAGA Narrative Guidance Engine Reflection Engine Scriptwriter Director Agent Facilitator Context NLE – SIG 4th November 2004

Director Agent • Is a narrative agent (follows Dautenhahn’s definition of a Type IV narrative agent) • Uses its memory to interact with the story characters and respond with support and guidance directives to the children. • Collects and stores the information from the stories, and organises such information in accordance with the different perspectives of the different dramatis personae. NLE – SIG 4th November 2004

Story Structures • Story = initial story situation + variable story schema • Initial Story Situation: the situation in which the characters and their inter-relations are introduced, the story is situated in terms of temporal and spatial localisation, the initial positioning of the characters, and the definition of the goal of the story • Variable Story Schema: a sequence of functions (A|a)CDEFG HJI KPrRsExUW MJN NLE – SIG 4th November 2004

Director Agent’s Functionalities • To update the internal world model and investigate the possibility of generating an episode. • To check whether the current plot point has been achieved • To check the need to trigger a reflection event • To check the need to introduce a new story entity (dramatis personae or object) NLE – SIG 4th November 2004

“Client” Application: Teatrix Teatrix is a collaborative virtual environment for story creation, which aims to provide effective support for young children developing: • their notions of narrative, through the dramatization of several situations; • and, their ability to take a 2nd and 3rd person perspective across the experience of a wide range of situations. NLE – SIG 4th November 2004

NLE – SIG 4th November 2004

Narrative in Learning Environments

Narrative in Learning Environments

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Using Perspective in Narrative Learning Environments

Managing Learning Environments

E-Learning Environments

Virtual Learning Environments

E-learning Environments:

Generalizability of Goal Recognition Models in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments

Adaptive Learning Environments

Learning Clusters in Challenging Environments

Personal Learning Environments

Learning Environments

Introducing Learning Performance in Personal Learning Environments

Developing Learning Environments

Using Perspective in Narrative Learning Environments

Learning Environments

Engineering Learning Environments

Creating Learning Environments

Managed Learning Environments

Learning Environments

Learning Environments