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We consider the issues involved in taking educational role-play into a virtual environment with intelligent graphical characters, who implement a cognitive appraisal system and autonomous action selection. Issues in organizing emergent narratives are discussed with respect to a Story Facilitator as well as the impact on the authoring process.
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Aylett, R., Figueiredo, R., Louchart, S., Dias, J., Paiva, A. (2006). Making It Up as You Go Along – Improvising Stories for Pedagogical Purposes. In: Gratch, J., Young, M., Aylett, R., Ballin, D., Olivier, P. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4133. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11821830_25
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