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Deliberation-driven reflective sequences, or DDRSs, are cinematic idioms used by film makers to convey the motivations for characters adopting a particular course of action in a story. We report on an experiment where the cinematic generation system Ember was used to create a cinematic sequence with variants making different choices for DDRS use around a single decision point for a single character.
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Cassell, K., Young, R.M. (2019). Leveraging Machinima to Characterize Comprehension of Character Motivation. In: Cardona-Rivera, R., Sullivan, A., Young, R. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11869. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33894-7_18
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