Story-Making with Improvisational Puppets

Citation: Barbara Hayes-Roth and Robert van Gent. (1996) Story-Making with Improvisational Puppets. In KSL-96-24, July,1996.

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author	Barbara Hayes-Roth and Robert van Gent
title	Story-Making with Improvisational Puppets
number	KSL-96-24
institution	Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory
year	1996
month	July
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abstract	"Improv Puppets" is an interaction paradigm modeled after traditional puppet play. With physical puppets, children move their puppets' bodies and speak their puppets' words in real time. Thus, the puppets serve as passive vehicles for the children's collaboration on improvisational story making. Similarly, with Improv Puppets, players direct the physical and verbal behavior of their puppets in real time. Now, however, the puppets are synthetic agents. They are animated and smart. The puppets tell the children which high-level directions make sense in a given situation. Given the children's choices, the puppets improvise a joint course of behavior. Thus, improvisational story making becomes a collaboration among children and puppets. This paper describes the design and behavior of an implemented system that allows two children to direct the improvisations of two puppets in real time.

KSL Technical Report ID: KSL-96-24

Abstract	"Improv Puppets" is an interaction paradig … "Improv Puppets" is an interaction paradigm modeled after traditional puppet play. With physical puppets, children move their puppets' bodies and speak their puppets' words in real time. Thus, the puppets serve as passive vehicles for the children's collaboration on improvisational story making. Similarly, with Improv Puppets, players direct the physical and verbal behavior of their puppets in real time. Now, however, the puppets are synthetic agents. They are animated and smart. The puppets tell the children which high-level directions make sense in a given situation. Given the children's choices, the puppets improvise a joint course of behavior. Thus, improvisational story making becomes a collaboration among children and puppets. This paper describes the design and behavior of an implemented system that allows two children to direct the improvisations of two puppets in real time. mprovisations of two puppets in real time.
Author	Barbara Hayes-Roth and Robert van Gent +
Bibtype	techreport +
Has author	Barbara Hayes-Roth and Robert van Gent +
Has identifier	KSL-96-24 +
Has publishing details	July,1996 +
Has title	Story-Making with Improvisational Puppets +
Has where published	KSL-96-24 +
Has year	1996 +
Institution	Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory +
Ksl tr id	KSL-96-24 +
Month	July +
Number	KSL-96-24 +
Process note	NO +
Title	Story-Making with Improvisational Puppets +
Year	1996 +