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A Use of Flashback and Foreshadowing for Surprise Arousal in Narrative Using a Plan-Based Approach

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2008)

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This paper describes work currently in progress to develop a computational method for generating flashback and foreshadowing, specifically targeted at the evocation of surprise in the reader’s mind. Flashback provides a backstory to explain what caused the surprise outcome. Foreshadowing provides an implicit hint about the surprise. Our study focuses on surprise as a cognitive response rather than as an emotional response. The reader’s story construction process is simulated by a plan-based reader model that checks unexpectedness and postdictability of the surprise.

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  1. Liquid Narrative Group, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

    Byung-Chull Bae & R. Michael Young

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  1. FH Erfurt, University of Applied Sciences, Altonaerstr. 25, 99085, Erfurt, Germany

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    Nicolas Szilas

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Bae, BC., Young, R.M. (2008). A Use of Flashback and Foreshadowing for Surprise Arousal in Narrative Using a Plan-Based Approach. In: Spierling, U., Szilas, N. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_22

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