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Playing with Agents — Agents in Social and Dramatic Games

2004; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-662-08373-4_15

2197-6635

Ana Paiva, Rui Prada, Isabel Machado, Carlos Martinho, Marco Vala, André Ribeiro da Silva,

Multimedia Communication and Technology

In this chapter we describe the experiences we had at our group in building synthetic characters for virtual story-telling and games applications. We provide an analysis framework useful to classify the autonomy of synthetic characters versus the control of the users over those characters. In this framework we distinguish several types of autonomy of characters, in particular: scripted; partially scripted; influenced by role; and autonomous. These types of autonomy can be found in some of the systems we have built at our group, namely Tristão and Isolda, Papous, Teatrix, and FantasyA.