We have investigated the experience of improvisers as they perform to better understand how narrative is constructed by group performance in improvisational theatre Our study was conducted with improvisers who would perform improv "games" with each iteration video recorded Each individual participant was shown the video in a retrospective protocol collection, before reviewing it again in a group interview This process is meant to elicit information about how the cognition involved develops narrative during an improvisation performance This paper presents our initial findings related to narrative development in improvisational theatre with an ambition to use these and future analyses in creating improvisational intelligent agents These findings have demonstrated that the construction of narrative is crafted through the making and accepting of scene-advancing offers, which expert improvisers are more readily capable of performing

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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film

Narrative Development in Improvisational Theatre

This paper describes our effort for a planning-based computational model of narrative generation that is designed to elicit surprise in the reader's mind, making use of two temporal narrative devices: flashback and foreshadowing. In our computational model, flashback provides a backstory to explain what causes a surprising outcome, while foreshadowing gives hints about the surprise before it occurs. Here, we present Prevoyant, a planning-based computational model of surprise arousal in narrative generation, and analyze the effectiveness of Prevoyant. The work here also presents a methodology to evaluate surprise in narrative generation using a planning-based approach based on the cognitive model of surprise causes. The results of the experiments that we conducted show strong support that Prevoyant effectively generates a discourse structure for surprise arousal in narrative.

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A Computational Model of Narrative Generation for Surprise Arousal

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Spinal cord compression secondary to cancer: disability and rehabilitation

Collapsing the Interior/Exterior Distinction: Surveillance, Spectacle, and Suspense in Popular Cinema

This short article suggests a revision of the hierarchical levels of focalization and narration. It argues that greater precision in distinguishing degrees of both narrators' and characters' involvement in these distinct processes will result in a more flexible and more adequate typology. To achieve this purpose, the well-known systems of narrative situations in Bal 1981, 1985 [1977] and of focalization in Genette 1980 [1972] are reconciled with those of homodiegetic narration in Lanser 1981 and Fuger 1993. A revised and comprehensive version of possible identity relations among narrators and focalizers is suggested and briefly exemplified through a number of well-known Anglo-American novels.

Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film

Citations

Narrative Development in Improvisational Theatre

A Computational Model of Narrative Generation for Surprise Arousal

Spinal cord compression secondary to cancer: disability and rehabilitation

Collapsing the Interior/Exterior Distinction: Surveillance, Spectacle, and Suspense in Popular Cinema

Focalization and Narration: Theoretical and Terminological Refinements

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