An Experiment in Improvised Interactive Drama

Swartjes, Ivo and Theune, Mariët (2009) An Experiment in Improvised Interactive Drama. In: Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2009, 22-24 Jun 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Abstract:	To inform the design of interactive drama systems, we investigate the experience of an interactor being part of a story that they can have a fundamental influence on. Improvisational theatre might serve as a model for this experience, where there is no pre-scripted plot; each of its actors shares responsibility for the collaborative emergence of a story. This requires a performer attitude from the interactor. We describe an experiment in which improv actors create a story together with subjects who have no improv experience, to find out how we can characterize this experience, and how it might be achieved. Our results support a recent hypothesis that an interactor in interactive drama might be treated as a collaborative performer rather than an (antagonistic) player.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2009 Springer
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Human Media Interaction (HMI)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/62825
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_25
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