Believable proxies of human behavior can empower interactive applications ranging from
immersive environments to rehearsal spaces for interpersonal communication to prototyping …

Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) are a promising integrated educational tool for customizing
formal education using intelligent instruction or feedback. In recent decades, ITSs have …

One of the most overlooked challenges in artificial intelligence (AI) for computer games is to
create non-player game characters (NPCs) with human-like behavior. Modern NPCs …

The recent popularity of augmented reality (AR) devices has enabled players to participate
in interactive narratives through virtual events and characters populated in a real-world …

There is a peculiar method in the area of procedural narrative called emergent narrative:
instead of automatically inventing stories or deploying authored narrative content, a system …

Intelligent game-based learning environments integrate commercial game technologies with
AI methods from intelligent tutoring systems and intelligent narrative technologies. This …

New player experiences require new game designs–and some designs only become
possible with new technology. Emergent narratives are part of existing story games but the …

In this work, we revisit the duality between character and plot in Interactive Storytelling, and
demonstrate the important role of social relationships between virtual characters in the …

In this paper we describe the design and evaluation of The Next Fairy Tale (TNFT) VR, a
theatrical interactive storytelling system created in virtual reality and informed by performing …

In many games, NPC-player interactions play a vital role in gameplay. Previous literature
has successfully shown how NPC interaction focused on social simulation is an effective …