Daydreaming with Intention: Scalable Blending-Based Imagining and Agency in Generative Interactive Narrative

Creative Intelligent Systems

Volume

Papers from the 2008 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

This paper presents recent development of a blending-based system that generates interactive narrative output. Besides expanding the GRIOT system to dynamically reconfigure discourse, we introduce a novel construct called a scale of intentionality. As a cultural production, the first application of these advances is an interactive narrative of a character's daydreamed memories, intertwined within a story world. Our approach is technically grounded in algebraic semiotics, conceptual blending theory, computational narrative research, and is informed by the notion of critical technical practice of AI research.