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Narrative in Learning Environments Narrative in Learning Environments

Isabel Machado AlexandreIsabel Machado AlexandreGAIPS INESC-ID, ISCTEGAIPS INESC-ID, ISCTEEmail: [email protected]: [email protected]

NLE – SIG 4th November 2004

Research Interests

Narrative Intelligence Virtual Storytelling Intelligent Learning Environments Synthetic Agents Emotions and Affective Computing


Previous Research Teatrix:

• Collaborative virtual environment for story creation developed within the context of the EU project NIMIS

SAGA (Support and Guidance Architecture) • PhD Research

VICTEC (Virtual ICT with Emphatic Characters)


Approach Assumes that the story being created and told is

not predefined manually but created collaboratively by the users

Merges the author, actor and spectator roles Director Agent provides support and guidance for

the achievement of a meaningful story


Context

Scriptwriter

Director Agent

Narrative Guidance

Engine

Reflection Engine

Facilitator

Story Creation Application


Director Agent Is a narrative agent (follows Dautenhahn’s definition of a

Type IV narrative agent)

Uses its memory to interact with the story characters and respond with support and guidance directives to the children.

Collects and stores the information from the stories, and organises such information in accordance with the different perspectives of the different dramatis personae.


Story Structures

Story = initial story situation + variable story schema

Initial Story Situation: the situation in which the characters and their inter-relations are introduced, the story is situated in terms of temporal and spatial localisation, the initial positioning of the characters, and the definition of the goal of the story

Variable Story Schema: a sequence of functions

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Director Agent’s Functionalities To update the internal world model and investigate

the possibility of generating an episode.

To check whether the current plot point has been achieved

To check the need to trigger a reflection event

To check the need to introduce a new story entity (dramatis personae or object)


“Client” Application: Teatrix

Teatrix is a collaborative virtual environment for story creation, which aims to provide effective support for young children developing:

• their notions of narrative, through the dramatization of several situations;

• and, their ability to take a 2nd and 3rd person perspective across the experience of a wide range of situations.

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