Authoring interactive narratives with hypersections

TL;DR: The authors defined the RchEd architecture for edutainment environments and proposed an authoring tool architecture, named Archaud, which identifies two components to define simulation and knowledge arguments.

TL;DR: The result is a presentation of general issues in authoring Interactive Storytelling, rather than of particular problems with a specific system that could be overcome by `simply' designing the right interface.

TL;DR: A case for the importance of this research is presented, then several topics are outlined that are central to the inquiry: developing computational theories for cognitive-emotional agents, presentation style, and drama.

TL;DR: An overview of the process of bringing Facade to life as a coherent, engaging, high agency experience, including the design and programming of thousands of joint dialog behaviors in the reactive planning language ABL, and their higher level organization into a collection of story beats sequenced by a drama manager are described.

TL;DR: This research addresses the challenge of how to present an underlying simulated world in a convincing fashion within the confines of a virtual reality headset.

TL;DR: This work presents a narrative generation planning system for multi-agent stories that is capable of generating narratives with both strong plot coherence and strong character believability.