Leveraging Intention Revision in Narrative Planning to Create Suspenseful Stories
Matthew William Fendt, R. Michael Young · IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games · 2016
Character intention revision is an essential component of stories, but it has yet to be incorporated into story generation systems. However, intentionality, one component of intention revision, has been explored in both narrative generation and logical formalisms. The intention revision in storytelling (IRIS) system adopts the belief/desire/intention framework of intentionality from logical formalisms and combines it with preexisting concepts of intentionality in narrative. IRIS also introduces the crucial concept of intention revision for the protagonist of the story. The IRIS system uses its generative power alongside psychological and narrative models of suspense to computationally create suspenseful stories. It has been used in the creation of suspenseful noninteractive text stories and an interactive text-based video game.