Towards data-driven drama management: issues in data collection and annotation

Anders Drachen; Georgios Yannakakis; Arnav Jhala; Michael Hitchens

Towards data-driven drama management: issues in data collection and annotation

Anders Drachen^*, Georgios Yannakakis, Arnav Jhala, Michael Hitchens

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School of Computing

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Abstract

One of the key questions in the design and development of interactive drama is structuring an experience for participants such that an engaging, coherent narrative is presented while enabling a high degree of perceived meaningful interactivity. This paper proposes a new approach to the design of intelligent drama managers (DMs) where DM strategies are learned from a corpus of data collected from pen-and-paper RPG game sessions with expert human game masters. In particular, this paper focuses on the issues relating to the collection and annotation of relevant data from recorded gameplay sessions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory - Proceedings of DiGRA 2009
Place of Publication	Tampere
Publisher	Authors & Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)
Pages	1-8
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	4th Digital Games Research Association International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory, DiGRA - 2009 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Sep 2009 → 4 Sep 2009

Other

Other	4th Digital Games Research Association International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory, DiGRA - 2009
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	1/09/09 → 4/09/09

Keywords

Data-driven Drama Management
Interactive Storytelling

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Drachen, A, Yannakakis, G, Jhala, A & Hitchens, M 2009, Towards data-driven drama management: issues in data collection and annotation. in Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory - Proceedings of DiGRA 2009. Authors & Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), Tampere, pp. 1-8, 4th Digital Games Research Association International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory, DiGRA - 2009, London, United Kingdom, 1/09/09.

Towards data-driven drama management : issues in data collection and annotation. / Drachen, Anders; Yannakakis, Georgios; Jhala, Arnav et al.

Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory - Proceedings of DiGRA 2009. Tampere : Authors & Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), 2009. p. 1-8.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

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