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Using Values to Turn Agents into Characters

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Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2009)

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Systems for interactive storytelling and drama rely on agent theories to model characters, and adopt various techniques to cope with non-determinism at the story level, such as story models, combining them according to sophisticate architectural designs. However, a consolidated approach has not emerged yet, that fully reconciles these two dimensions. In this paper, we propose a unifying framework to accommodate the tension between story control and character behavior. By using a model of agent to analyze a classical example, we show that this tension cannot be solved by discharging the distinguishing properties of agency. Rather, we claim that the accurate modeling of agency is a prerequisite to the success of any attempt to solve this tension, together with the possibility for the author to state the story direction in terms of explicitly declared values.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Centro Interdipartimentale per la Multimedialità e l’Audiovisivo, Università di Torino, Italy

    Rossana Damiano & Vincenzo Lombardo

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  1. Departament of Systems and Informatics, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal – INSTICC, Rua do Vale de Chaves - Estefanilha, 2910-761, Setúbal, Portugal

    Joaquim Filipe

  2. Instituto de Telecomunicaçöes, IST - Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal

    Ana Fred

  3. School of Computing, Staffordshire University, Baconside,, Stafford, UK

    Bernadette Sharp

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Damiano, R., Lombardo, V. (2010). Using Values to Turn Agents into Characters. In: Filipe, J., Fred, A., Sharp, B. (eds) Agents and Artificial Intelligence. ICAART 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 67. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11819-7_22

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