Narrative Environments
Working Group
Ruth Aylett University of Salford
It has been argued that narrative is a fundamental mechanism for humans in making sense of their world, their personal experience and each other. From creation myths to gossip - stories about others, a possible source of language itself - stories permeate human life. Thus it seems that if humans enter the loop with intelligent agents, the loop must also contain narrative.
Here are some questions this group might discuss:
- Does the designer have to worry about this, or will the user invent the narratives for them?
- Do different types of narrative belong to different types of agent environment?
- Are particular agent attributes needed to support a narrative process - such as emotional systems for example?
- Should we differentiate between agent personality and agent role?
- Should narrative be explicitly scripted into an agent environment? Always? Sometimes? Never?
- Can satisfying narrative emergefrom agent-agent and human-agent interaction?
- Do we see the user as author or participant in a narrative? Which, when?
You may have other questions you think we should discuss. Email me if you can, or otherwise bring them with you.
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