1. Narrative in Learning Environments Narrative in Learning Environments Isabel Machado Alexandre GAIPS INESC-ID, ISCTE Email: Isabel.Machado@inesc-id.pt

2. NLE – SIG 4th November 2004 Research Interests  Narrative Intelligence  Virtual Storytelling  Intelligent Learning Environments  Synthetic Agents  Emotions and Affective Computing

3. NLE – SIG 4th November 2004 Previous Research  Teatrix: Collaborative virtual environment for story creation developed within the context of the EU project NIMIS  SAGA (Support and Guidance Architecture) PhD Research  VICTEC (Virtual ICT with Emphatic Characters)

4. NLE – SIG 4th November 2004 Approach  Assumes that the story being created and told is not predefined manually but created collaboratively by the users  Merges the author, actor and spectator roles  Director Agent provides support and guidance for the achievement of a meaningful story

5. NLE – SIG 4th November 2004 Context Scriptwriter Director Agent Narrative Guidance Engine Reflection Engine Facilitator

6. NLE – SIG 4th November 2004 Director Agent  Is a narrative agent (follows Dautenhahn’s definition of a Type IV narrative agent)  Uses its memory to interact with the story characters and respond with support and guidance directives to the children.  Collects and stores the information from the stories, and organises such information in accordance with the different perspectives of the different dramatis personae.

7. NLE – SIG 4th November 2004 Story Structures  Story = initial story situation + variable story schema  Initial Story Situation: the situation in which the characters and their inter-relations are introduced, the story is situated in terms of temporal and spatial localisation, the initial positioning of the characters, and the definition of the goal of the story  Variable Story Schema: a sequence of functions (A|a)C  DEFG HJI K  PrRsExUW MJN (A|a)C  DEFG HJI K  PrRsExUW MJN

8. NLE – SIG 4th November 2004 Director Agent’s Functionalities  To update the internal world model and investigate the possibility of generating an episode.  To check whether the current plot point has been achieved  To check the need to trigger a reflection event  To check the need to introduce a new story entity (dramatis personae or object)

9. NLE – SIG 4th November 2004 “Client” Application: Teatrix Teatrix is a collaborative virtual environment for story creation, which aims to provide effective support for young children developing: their notions of narrative, through the dramatization of several situations; and, their ability to take a 2nd and 3rd person perspective across the experience of a wide range of situations.

10. NLE – SIG 4th November 2004