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Interactive Drama

Seth Horrigan CS260 – Spring 2009. Interactive Drama. Artificial Intelligence. Georgetown Experiment – 1954. Artificial Intelligence. 1966: the failure of machine translation 1970: the abandonment of connectionism

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Interactive Drama

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  1. Seth Horrigan CS260 – Spring 2009 Interactive Drama

  2. Artificial Intelligence • Georgetown Experiment – 1954

  3. Artificial Intelligence • 1966: the failure of machine translation • 1970: the abandonment of connectionism • 1971−75: DARPA's frustration with the Speech Understanding Research program at Carnegie Mellon University • 1973: the large decrease in AI research in the United Kingdom in response to the Lighthill Report • 1973−74: DARPA's cutbacks to academic AI research in general • 1987: the collapse of the Lisp machine market • 1988: the cancellation of new spending on AI by the Strategic Computing Initiative

  4. Artificial Intelligence • Limited domains • Tightly scripted responses

  5. Narrative

  6. Narrative

  7. Narrative Intelligence • Art, psychology, cultural studies, literary studies, drama • Aristotelian dramatic theory: spectacle, song, diction, thought, character and plot • Narrative agents, interactive agents, storytelling systems

  8. Games

  9. Interactive Drama

  10. Interactive Drama • Theatre • Films • Participatory art

  11. Drama and narrative • Drama = Character + Story + Presentation • Drama(narrative) • Interactive drama(develop narrative)

  12. Believable agents • Personality, emotion, self-motivation, change, social relationships, illusion of life • Classical AI = mind, behavorial AI = person

  13. Agents • Embodied? • Environmentally influenced • Complex • Visual?

  14. Visual focus

  15. Scripting • Conversational agents • Branching

  16. Façade

  17. Discussion • In MMOs, especially MMORPGs, many individual participants create an interactive drama. Given such environments, is there a place for AI-driven interactive drama? • Given how long it takes to author such a short game, is it worthwhile? • Can you think of ways to reduce authoring time? • Attempts at choose-your-own path movies have been unsuccessful. Could interactive drama of this type be used to somehow make something better? • How would interactive drama work with non-self-absorbed characters? • Where, aside from games, could these ideas be applied?

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