Story-morphing in the affective reasoning paradigm
Clark Elliott, Jacek Brzeziński, Sanjay Sheth, Robert Salvatoriello · 1998
In our work on the AfIcctive Reasoning project we have established a strong relationship between reasoning about human emotion and reasoning about the stories people tell.In a recent set of exercises we demonstrated that (a) subjects do project attributions of human emotion interaction into multimedia multi-agent presentations, (b) we can use Affective Reasoner mechanisms to tag basic plot steps in stories with varied, but plausible, interpretations on behalf of each participating agent, (c) we can combine the various interpretations of these plot steps into narratives with relatively little concern for constraints, and (c) when shown presentations generated by the computer using such tagged plot steps, subjects form explanations for cohesive, distinct stories and that they rate the stories as highly plausible.Furthermore, for certain types of scenarios, a single base slory and a readily created set of interpretation tags allow the generation of many hundreds of distinct, plausible, and cohesive story-morphs, where the external plot steps remain similar, but the thematic materia1, and the internal lives of the characters, vary greatly.The exercises provide evidence that this mechanism may be applicable to a broad range of bn.qe stories,