CAREER: Automated Support for Novice Authorning of Interactive Drama

该项目的目标是使新手（非程序员和非专家讲故事者）能够创建交互式戏剧（ID），基于人工智能（AI）的交互式故事体验，具有自主角色和动态情节进展。实现这一目标需要回答以下研究问题：如何将来自戏剧写作理论的讲故事和角色创作理论，以及来自漫画的故事板布局理论，结合到与人类作者合作创建ID的故事生成和角色创作的AI模型中。ID中的大多数研究工作都集中在单个组件上，例如自主角色架构或故事管理器/生成器，而不是在具有吸引人的内容的完全集成的系统上。这主要是由于创作的困难;创建ID目前需要由AI研究人员，故事作者和领域专家组成的大型跨学科团队。这个项目将通过结合故事生成中的新颖工作，编程可视化界面中的新颖工作，以及来自唯一公开的完整ID（外观）的创作见解来解决创作问题。启用ID的新手创作将产生重大影响：作为一种新的和强大的个人表达模式，在ID技术应用于教育和培训中，以及让初中和高中学生参与计算表达。与传统的视频游戏不同，ID专注于人际互动，实现丰富而强大的游戏体验，专注于动态生成，不断变化的故事中与自主角色进行有意义的社交互动。这种技术对于注重人与人之间互动的严肃游戏（教育和培训游戏）（如管理培训）和处理种族主义等复杂主题的公共服务游戏至关重要。目前，ID的构建需要专家团队，这使得那些不是技术和游戏设计专家，但希望利用这种强大的新媒体的个人和组织无法接触到它们。该项目的目标是将ID的构建从专家手中解放出来，并使每个人都可以使用它。

The goal of this project is to enable novices (non-programmers and non-expert storytellers) to create interactive dramas (IDs), artificial intelligence (AI) based interactive story experiences with autonomous characters and dynamic plot progression. Accomplishing this goal requires answering the following research question: how can one incorporate storytelling and character creation theories from the theory of dramatic writing, as well as theories of storyboard layout from comics, into an AI model of story generation and character creation that collaborates with a human author to create an ID. Most research work in ID has focused on individual components, such as autonomous character architectures or story managers/generators, not on fully integrated systems with engaging content. This is primarily due to the difficulty of authoring; creating IDs currently requires large, interdisciplinary teams of AI researchers, story authors and domain experts. This project will address the authoring problem by combining novel work in story generation, novel work in visual interfaces for programming, and authoring insights from the only publicly fielded, complete ID (Facade).Enabling novice authoring of ID will have significant impact: as a new and powerful mode of personal expression, in applications of ID technology to education and training, and for engaging middle school and high-school students in computational expression. Unlike traditional videogames, ID focuses on interpersonal interaction, enabling rich and powerful game-like experiences that focus on meaningful social interaction with autonomous characters within a dynamically generated, changing story. Such technology is essential for serious games (games for education and training) that focus on people-to-people interaction, such as management training, and public service games that tackle complex topics such as racism. Currently, the construction of IDs requires teams of experts, putting them out of reach of individuals and organizations who are not technology and game design experts, but who wish to harness this powerful new medium. The goal of the project is to take the construction of ID out of the hands of experts, and make it available to everyone.