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PastMaster@storytelling: A Controlled Interface for Interactive Drama
SZILAS, Nicolas, KAVAKLI, Manolya
Abstract
In this paper, we describe a controlled interface for Interactive Drama, PastMaster@Storytelling. PastMaster is used for interacting with an Interactive Drama engine.
The paper discusses the test results regarding the usability of the interface.
SZILAS, Nicolas, KAVAKLI, Manolya. PastMaster@storytelling: A Controlled Interface for Interactive Drama. In: E. Edmonds, D. Riecken, C.L. Paris & C.L. Sidner. IUI '06 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces. New York, NY : ACM Press, 2006. p. 288-290
DOI : 10.1145/1111449.1111513
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PastMaster@Storytelling
A Controlled Interface for Interactive Drama
Nicolas Szilas, Manolya kavakli
Computing Department
Macquarie University, Australia {nicolas,manolya}@ics.mq.edu.au
GUIs for Interactive Drama
Definition: Interactive Drama is an experience, where the audience acts as a character by making decisions on each character's actions in a story
NEW:
PastMaster
Free interfaces
text-based speech-based list sentence-based object-based history-based
Controlled interfaces
Façade Beyond Good and Evil Sentient The Sims
Mateas & Stern, 2004 Ubisoft Psygnosis Maxis
PastMaster
History (the past)
Stage (the present)
Potential actions (the future)
Selected element
Addressee selection
An adaptive Interface
First level – The list of events in the history is
always growing. This offers more and more selectable
texts to the user.
Second level – Following a given piece of text selected by the user, the list of
proposed actions depends on the context.
Evaluation
Protocol: 4 subjects interacting 10 minutes with the story, followed by a questionnaire.
The principle is understood and accepted
Difficult to access elements into the history
Users do not think beforehand of the action to play
Future work
Improve the interface – Structure the history – Search the history
Other applications
– Information search
– Personal e-mail management
